An urgent priority : Library s $1.5 million project starts to replace 125-year-old roof in Fairfield
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The Pequot Library as it undergoes a roof replacement./ The Pequot Library / ContributedShow MoreShow Less
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The Pequot Library was opened to the public in March of 1894./ The Pequot Library / ContributedShow MoreShow Less
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FAIRFIELD Work has begun to replace Pequot Library’s 125-year-old Ludowici terracotta roof.
“This restoration project is long overdue, and the trustees enthusiastically endorsed proceeding with this critical effort despite the current pandemic,” Nelson North, Pequot Library’s Board of Trustees president, said in a news release.
The project comes after a comprehensive conditions assessment plan, which was supported by the State Historic Preservation Office and conducted by architecture firm Pirie Associates, of New Haven, in 2019. The study identified repairing the historic roof as “an urgent prior
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Main Street in Beckley opened back up in November after being shut down since June 24 when a roof collapsed.(file photo by Rick Barbero/The Register-Herald) Rick Barbero/The Register-Herald
In January, Diness Lamichhane took a chance and revived a restaurant at 113 Main St. in Beckley.Â
On Monday, he announced that his business is for sale, mainly due to a four-month road closure that reduced his business, Roma Pizza and Grill, to $100 a day for months. That put a knife in our heart, Lamichhane said Monday, of the four-month closure. When we first started, our business was doing good.
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Rick Davis has served as the executive director of the 1891 Fredonia Opera House since 2005. Although the Opera House hasn’t had any events since the pandemic began, they’re as busy as ever, getting ready for when things do return.
Two years ago, the village of Fredonia received a $2.5 million grant, of which $1.3 was for the Opera House’s remodeling. Davis called the timing of the pandemic “fortuitous,” noting that they’ve been able to use their downtime to completely gut and remodel the bathrooms, replace the windows and do some heating, ventilation and air conditioning work.
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Rick Davis has served as the executive director of the 1891 Fredonia Opera House since 2005. Although the Opera House hasn’t had any events since the pandemic began, they’re as busy as ever, getting ready for when things do return.
Two years ago, the village of Fredonia received a $2.5 million grant, of which $1.3 was for the Opera House’s remodeling. Davis called the timing of the pandemic “fortuitous,” noting that they’ve been able to use their downtime to completely gut and remodel the bathrooms, replace the windows and do some heating, ventilation and air conditioning work.