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More pretty pictures of Main Street

February 9, 2009 09:33:38 AM

Hot off the presses, here are the latest in a series of images showing what Main Street could look like without above-ground utility wires. This set of  images show Main Street near the Common (in front of the Library). They depict what the area might look like after the Main Street reconstruction project and utility

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What Main Street could look like

February 5, 2009 02:18:25 PM

A few weeks ago I asked you to envision Main Street without its telephone poles and crisscross of wires. Now the Main Street Council, the group leading the effort to bury underground the utility lines along Main Street, has made that easy. Council Co-chair Dennis Flynn emailed me some visions shots of what Main Street

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Light blight on Main Street

December 18, 2008 12:41:00 PM

You know when you’re at a party and and you have a conversation with someone who has a bit of spinach stuck in their teeth, and the spinach is all you can focus on, no matter how interesting the conversation might be? That’s how I feel when I drive down Main Street, except instead of

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Going wireless on Main Street

December 17, 2008 10:29:00 AM

I have to admit, I never paid much attention to the crisscross of wires above Main Street, they were just part of the landscape. But what if they weren’t? What if instead of telephone poles, the road was lined with trees, grass borders, and unobstructed sidewalks? That’s the vision the Main Street Council laid out

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