Thinking Out Loud In Sturbridge: June 2014

Sixty miles west of Boston, Massachusetts there is the small New England town of Sturbridge. Located at the junction of I-90 (The Mass Pike), and I-84 it has become known as the "Crossroads of New England". The town was first settled over 300 years ago, and like other small New England towns it has grown just enough over the years to be in a difficult place today. How do we embrace the future without forgetting how we got to our present? How do we attract the right kind of growth, and maintain who we are? And, what about our culture out here in Central Massachusetts?

These pages will cause one to think about how to protect what we have, our future direction, and how to move on in the very best way.

Those thoughts, and other ramblings, will hopefully inspire more thought, conversation, action, and occasionally a smile...

...seems to be working so far

Friday, June 6, 2014

Hallelujah!

No more Mini Coopers being swallowed by the potholes that lived in the parking lot at the Hobbs Brook Plaza. No more mandatory wheel alignments after a half dozen trips to Stop & Shop. The roadway, and parking lot is being completely redone--the right way. The old asphalt has been completely removed, not milled, or ground down, but totally removed. A bottom coarse layer of asphalt was put down followed by a top, fine coat.

Seems like a simple thing, a newly paved parking lot, and it is, but it is also a very appreciated thing. Long overdue things always are.

Roadbed removed in preparation for the paving of new roadway.

Looking toward Route 20