Dry spell? It’s paving time!
By Linda Lemmon
Town Crier Editor
PUTNAM — What is a town’s natural reaction to a dry spell?
Road crews hit the road.
Sections of David Circle and Cleveland Street were repaved last year. This year, the crews finished milling and paving those streets, according to Highway Superintendent Travis Sirrine.
Viens Street and Chase Street were also done.
Crews also finished the rest of Five Mile River Road and a section of Prospect Street.
Most interesting, is the fate of the ground up asphalt, the “millings,” removed from Ring Street.
Those ground-up sections of asphalt were delivered to the Cady Copp Cottage. The historic house in Putnam Heights recently had an entrance road from Rt. 21 constructed in addition to a small parking lot at the cottage. The millings were laid down over the gravel and according to Town Historian Bill Pearsall, the millings will kind of melt into the surface and become a paved driveway and parking lot.
Now that this is  done, he said the donation/some help with a gate across the driveway “would be excellent.”

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The paving of Cleveland Street is now finished.

Left:Some 'paving' for the Cady Copp Cottage, courtesy of Ring Street.

Right: Road going out toward Rt. 21 from  the Cady Copp Cottage.

Right: The newly refurbished road toward the Cady Copp Cottage (on left).