Each week, City Manager Tom Aspell decides it’s too darn hot, strips down to his Wonderwoman swim trunks and pes headfirst into the Eagle Square fountain. Refreshed, he gets out and dribbles a city memo in water droplets on the sidewalk. Here it is!
Classiest Trash around
Garbage area gets gussied
Casella, the city’s trash and recycling vendor, will be replacing all trash and recycling containers in the Downtown Solid Waste District on July 9, beginning at 7 p.m., Aspell writes. As in any city, the Solid Waste District is home to the trashiest night clubs.
The process is expected to take approximately 4-to-5 hours to complete and will be done with as little disturbance as possible. The new containers will have a new, clean look that will help beautify our disposal locations downtown. Let’s put it this way – they’ll be so beautiful, other town’s disposal locations will become jealous and catty.
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GS Dept. is on the ‘Book
The General Services Department has become more active with social media, now including Facebook, Aspell writes. After starting a Twitter page a few weeks ago (#TrashbagSelfie!), Concord General Services started a Facebook page last week to help reach Concord residents on the most popular social media platform. Proposals to include a “flush” button next to the “like” button were ignored. We ask anyone with a Facebook page to please visit and “like” the page to be kept up to date on information about street maintenance, water, trash and recycling and more. Maybe the streets will really get into it and start posting pictures of the tires they chew up for lunch!
Chugging Along
Work is still kinda worky
Things are really shaping up with the Route 3 corridor improvements in Penacook Village, Aspell writes. The majority of the concrete sidewalks have been poured from Merrimack Street north to the bridge. Wait, north as in up? It’s the nation’s first vertical sidewalk!
This week, Merrill Construction will be working on shaping up the new roundabout at the intersection of Village and Washington Streets. Hopefully that shape is round. Drain and utility work will be taking place in this vicinity, and Brochu Landscaping is scheduled to begin with the streetscape/landscape work in this area as well. There are no plans for manscaping at this time.
