Residents on Smith Road were greeted to a pleasant, if noisy scene on Friday morning — Highway Superintendant Gil Davis and the rest of his Highway Department crew arrived to replace an old, rotted out drainage pipe on the road to help reduce the area's overflow of water. "This pipe was here for years," said Davis on Friday, referring to the old pipe. "It was completely gone and rotten." Davis pointed to a metal grate in the asphalt, saying that, years ago, the town highway department had filled over a catch-basin in the ground, though he didn't know why. "So the people pumping water in the street — it had nowhere to go. So we're just giving people something to pump into that'll carry the water over into the stream."  >  MORE...

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