Road crews worked all of September to repair Blackberry Street, building a new retaining wall to shore up the slumping hillside. “The guard rails were tilting and the road was sliding into Donna Wheeler’s yard,” said First Selectman Sue Dyer. Money was budgeted and set aside for the work several years ago, but delays intervened. The project is now expected to cost about $330,000 and to be finished by mid-October. “It needed to be fixed,” said Dyer.

Photo by Wiley Wood.