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work begin
By Linda Lemmon
Town Crier Editor
PUTNAM — Residents may see some staging going up in Rotary Park soon. And that will be ushering in a new roof for the bandstand.
Willie Bousquet, director of the town’s Parks and Recreation Department, said look for staging to follow the Zombie Fashion Show. “We hope to have the roof completed this fall,” Bousquet said.
A metal roof will replace the 20-plus year old shingles in the $64,900 project. It is being paid for out of the capital expense budget.
The town had hoped the project would have been done earlier this summer; however, the roofer, Commercial Roofing, had to wait for some supplies/equipment to come in.
Once the project starts, Bousquet said it would take about 10 days.
And that is the first of three projects planned for Rotary Park.
Next spring look for the bandstand to really step into the limelight with a new paint job. Bousquet said the same colors will be used. As for the cost, he said, the different options are still being looked at. “We’re coming up with a ‘plan of attack’,” he said.
Following that a fence with screening will wrap around three sides of the Port-a-Johns that stand next to the Kennedy Drive parking lot at the park. That $5,000 cost for that project is being split between the Putnam Rotary Club and the town.
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