Board cuts scope of project to lower costs By RUSSELL JONES After consulting with the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans), the Pittsford selectboard has decided to reduce the scope of a planned sidewalk repair project. The project is focused on repairing a length of sidewalk along Route 7, where years of repaving have raised the […]

Bees must visit 2 million flowers to produce a single pound
of honey. So when beekeeper Fred Putnam, Jr. says he expects to
collect nearly a ton of honey this year, he’s talking about almost 4 billion flower visits.

By RUSSELL JONES The town of Brandon will have a new transfer station operator beginning in September. After months of negotiating with the current operators of the town’s garbage and recycling transfer station — Earth, Waste and Metal, or EWM — the two sides could not agree on contract terms and now the town intends […]

By RUSSELL JONES Despite not being able to secure funds from the Burditt Trust, the Pittsford Selectboard remained committed to the sidewalk project in front of the Lothrop School on Route 7. Often labeled as “dangerous,” the section of Route 7 from Mechanic Street to the guardrail past Furnace Road has an almost non-existent sidewalk, […]

By RUSSELL JONES The first annual Estabrook Music Festival will happen on Labor Day weekend, giving area residents a final chance to cut loose before the end of summer. The festival runs Friday and Saturday, Aug. 30 and 31 at Estabrook Park and will feature music, food and waterslides, among other events. The Brandon Recreation […]