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Rail Trail carved out of the weeds

Tim Vermette, the MRTA Project Director has been sneaking out with a lawn mower clearing more and more trail bed every time. This is some of the work Tim did today. The sad part is that the weeds grow back as fast as he can cut them. Once the tracks are removed and an actual hard pack trail is put down, it will be much easier to keep the sides groomed for running and cycling. Cheers to Tim for his awesomeness!

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Today on the Trail I spied some new graffiti – funny i dont’ remember THIS much tagging of the granite bridge..perhaps it’s a new phenomenon. there is also evidence of a camp fire and a lot of empty beer bottles, perhaps some kids were letting off some steam. now we have to get out there and clean it up.

Including somehow removing a television and a propane tank from the river.

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May 24th, 2010  in Today on the Trail No Comments »

April clean sweep

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Thank you for a successful cleanup day!

We had such a great turn out and accomplish so much more in these little clean up splurges, that in future we will limit our clean ups to no more than 1-2 hours, depending on location. Whatever we miss we get on the next pass.

This time out we tackled the Railroad St location just north of the Old Depot. There is an issue with trees and brush left on the trail from the VFW roofing project, but no doubt we can get that taken care of in time. Aside from that we made great headway removing all the visible trash and debris.