Each week, City Manager Tom Aspell cuts a bunch of holes in the State House lawn and starts trying to knock golf balls into them. Only when the PGA Tour shows up for a weekend event does he realize he’s created the third-ranked golf course in the country. Thankfully he’d already written the city memo!
Kick it to the curb
Just do it a day later
There will be no curbside trash and recycling collection on July 4, Aspell writes. There will be no anything-else side trash and recycling collection, either, for the record.
Curbside trash and recycling collection for July 4 will take place July 5. Please place trash and recycling at the curb by 7 a.m. and take advantage of the opportunity to let your trash enjoy the fireworks show the night before.
Not set in stone
But it is set in concrete
This week, Granite State Curb crews will continue with the installation of the granite curb along Village Street, Aspell writes. Personally, based on the business name and the function being performed, we feel the crew may have been typecast.
The concrete sidewalks are slated to be poured this week, as well, and will begin with a small amount poured out for our homies.
Access to businesses will be maintained throughout the reconstruction of the sidewalks. The city parking lot adjacent to Chief’s Restaurant has been reconfigured with angled parking (we presume not 90-degree angled parking) and a new one-way entrance off of Village Street. The electrical contractor is wrapping up the installation of light pole bases and the electrical pull boxes. Once all is in place, efforts to restore landscaped areas within Boudreau Square will begin. And then they will end.
Join the club
Garden gets a sprucing
Parks staff have been busy assisting the East Concord Garden Club with the removal and addition of plant material at Pecker Park, located on the corner of Shaker Road and Mountain Road, Aspell writes. To increase efficiency, the same materials are not being removed and then added.
Pecker Park is a small park with several raised annual and perennial beds, along with a monument and plaque honoring the park’s namesake. We thought it was Pappy Pecker, the celebrated alligator wrestler from the 1800s, but it turns out that’s not even a real person.
The club members have been working for some time on raising funds to add perennials and a dwarf spruce tree to the park (isn’t it more politically correct to refer to them as “little trees?”)
Parks staff assisted with this project by gaining approval from the neighbors for the plan, picking up the plants – which were purchased with club funds – removing two arborvitaes, and planting the new shrubs and tree. The club hopes to install an automatic irrigation system this summer to ease irrigation operations for the club members. The irrigation system will also be paid for with club funds.
