More Pictures and Words From the Reopening of the Parker River Bridge

(This will be more of a pictorial coverage of the January 5th opening of the Parker River Bridge.  The “official” version, which will appear in The Town Common, is in the entry below this one.  Everything underlined in this entry can be clicked on and should show a picture from the event.  I used similar [...]

Bridge Reopens – Area Rejoices

First built in 1758, famous folks including; Benedict Arnold, George Washington, James Monroe, and Lafayette have used the bridge over the Parker River to get from one side to the other.
However, since September of 2007, only MassHighway and S&R Corporation employees have been in the bridge area on Route 1A in Newbury since its closure [...]

Teaching Moments in Minnesota

There are lessons to be learned from the recent happenings in Minnesota.  Let me go through a couple of them.
First, we have this ongoing furor over repairing the 1A bridge over the Parker River in Newbury.  Was the bridge calamity in Minnesota not shown on local TV? 
The bridge in Newbury needs repair.  The best time [...]