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Across New England pumpkin growers havebeen readying their entries for Pumpkin Paloozaand the Giant Pumpkin Weigh Off at FrerichsFarm in Warren, R.I. Six months of nurturingfruit weighing hundreds of pounds and devisingways to transport these giants unharmed to thecontests is in itself almost a full-time job. Grown from April into October, the pumpkins

must be babysat for hours each day. One imper-fection or rot spot and they are disqualified fromcompetition.The Giant Pumpkin Weigh Off at Frerichs

Farm is about to celebrate its 11th anniversary,but the event was originally started some yearsbefore that in Smithfield, R.I., by JohnCastalucci, good friends of Frerichs Farm ownerDave Frerichs. “He started growing the first giant pumpkins

on his farm,” said Frerichs. “I said to him, ‘Iwant to lift those giants with a crane here andthen drop them filled with candy. And he said tome, What? You want me to grow these things forfive months, raise them and then smash them onthe ground?’ He thought I was crazy. Then, hethought about it and said okay. “When he saw how we carried out the idea, he said,

‘Wow! You really do a nice job.’ He only had six acres inSmithfield. We have 13 acres here, more equipment, moreroom, bigger crowds.”Frerichs is an internationally registered weigh site and

some of the winners at the Giant Pumpkin Weigh Offhave been registered in the Guinness Book of WorldRecords. Other entrants at Frerichs have named it NumberOne nationally for collective giants. There are thousandsof dollars to be won in this competition and, of course,bragging rights.Two decades ago, 600 pounds was considered a champ,

then 1,000, then, a 1,500-pounder at Frerichs Farms gotinternational attention. Now the Holy Gourd is up to a ton.Each pumpkin can only be lifted and weighed once,which is why farmers raise several at a time.

Giant Pumpkin Growers Have TheirDay at Frerichs Farm in Warren, R.I.

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secrets, but Frerichs said, “It’s Rhode Island genetics that aregrowing these giant pumpkins all over the country. It’s theseeds from our giants that everyone wants. The circle keepsgetting bigger, along with the pumpkins.“Competitors devise their own tall tripod with pipes to

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and put chains around it. They raise the pumpkinup high, back a vehicle underneath it and lower it.It’s not for the faint of heart when they movethese massive things,” added Frerichs.“This is serious lifting power,” he continued.

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The gourd also has to be perfectly sound, with no rot, holesor cracks. This, of course, makes it much more difficult tohoist and maintain for extensive travel.“We make sure that the Topsfield event and the Frerichs

event are never on the same day,” said Connolly. “They arealways one week apart. And I bring a different pumpkin toeach weigh-off. It’s one of the Great PumpkinCommonwealth (GPC) rules.”In 2010, Connolly made national headlines when he pro-

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Belknap Landscape submitted and won asealed bid for the Stewart Park restoration.

The ribbon cutting ceremony took place June 9. (L-R) are Kevin Dunleavy,Warren Clement, Peter Sawyer, Hayden McLaughlin and Pat Wood.

The park’s benches, trash receptacles, water fountain, the fencing along theriver were all in need of repair or replacement. Invasive plantings thrivedthroughout the park. The streetlights had not worked for years and the parkhad little appeal.

The Riverwalk, a solid black line on themap, is a 1-mi. walk. A shorter route, thedotted line, bottom right on the map, is a .3-mi. walk from City Hall and the HistoricBelknap Mill around — or through —Stewart Park and over the footbridge, backto the Mill. Many properties along the wayare listed on the National Historic Register.

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Smashing PumpkinsAnother equally important

pumpkin event takes place atFrerichs’ Farm every year.

Tim Dorrance, the owner ofDorrance Electric Co. inRehoboth, Mass., operates abucket material handler whichsuspends one of the giantpumpkins high in the air, abovethe hundreds of onlookersbelow.

“This is not a constructiontruck. This is a bucket materialhandler with a crane winch. Itcan lift five thousand pounds,” saidDorrance, who is now in his sixth yearof doing this Frerichs Farm.

Frerichs, invented his own device forthis purpose, according to Dorrance,“Dave has a latch system. He pulls arope attached to the latch and releasesthe pumpkin,” said Dorrance.

Once released, the giant gourd shat-ters and there is a dash for its seeds.

“Half of this is growing a giantpumpkin. The other is the seeds. Theyare giant seeds and they scramble forthem,” said Dorrance.

Pumpkin BrotherhoodThe gourds are not the only things

that kept getting bigger and bigger. Thelocal association grew and grew alongwith the pumpkins. Soon, it was estab-

lished in many states. “We lost the world record

(for size) the last two years. Arecord was set in Wisconsintwo years ago and another inOhio last year,” said Frerichs.“But the genesis of their seedscame from Rhode Island.

“It’s a kind of brotherhood,”Frerichs added proudly. “It’s a‘You help me and I help you.’There’s camaraderie and theyformed their own organization,this group of guys who alwayshelp each other. They don’t say,‘I’m not helping you, becauseyour pumpkin is bigger than

mine!’ They are never jealous. They arereally a great group of guys.”

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MassHighway received bids for transportation-relatedimprovement projects.Following is a list of some of the projects let.

Location: AuburnDocument Number: 603191Project: FAP# STP-002S(166)X Resurfacing and relatedwork on a section of Millbury Street.Low Bidder: P.J. Albert Inc.Bid Amount: $782,956Completion Date:Oct. 16, 2011

Location: District 5 Document Number: 605899Project: Catch basin cleaning at various locations in areas5A, 5B and 5C.Low Bidder:DeAngelo Brothers Inc.Bid Amount: $736,690Completion Date:Oct. 25, 2011

Location: CohassetDocument Number: 605160Project:Groundwater interceptor system construction atthe MassDOT maintenance depotLow Bidder: P. Caliacco CorporationBid Amount: $711,532Completion Date:Nov. 2, 2011

Location: OxfordDocument Number: 603356 Project: FAP# STP-002S(139)X Intersection improve-ments (including traffic signals) at Route 12 (WorcesterRoad) and Cudworth Road.Low Bidder: Baltazar Contractors Inc.Bid Amount: $435,266Completion Date:Oct. 9, 2011

Location: LexingtonDocument Number: 602133 Project: FAP# STP-002S(153)X Intersection improve-ments and related work (including traffic signal upgrades)Route 2A (Marrett Road) at Waltham Street.Low Bidder: J.Tropeano Inc.Bid Amount: $1,527,915Completion Date:Nov. 26, 2011

Location: PetershamDocument Number: 605841Project: FAP# STP-002S(159)X Resurfacing and relatedwork on a section of Route 32. Low Bidder: Palmer Paving CorporationBid Amount: $1,932,010Completion Date:April 16, 2012

Location: TewksburyDocument Number: 604538Project: FAP# ERP-002S(219)X Roadway reconstructionand related work on a section of River Road and MerrimacDrive.

Low Bidder: J. Tropeano Inc.Bid Amount: $4,105,242Completion Date: Sept. 6, 2012

Location: PeruDocument Number: 601739Project: FAP#s ERP-002S(214)X and STP-002S(214)XRoadway reconstruction and related work on a section ofMiddlefield Road (Skyline Trail).Low Bidder: J.H. Maxymillian Inc.Bid Amount: $4,208,828Completion Date: July 18, 2012

Location: District 2Document Number: 606047Project: Scheduled and emergency bridge deck and jointrepairs at various locations.Low Bidder: SPS New EnglandBid Amount: $1,399,060Completion Date:Nov. 7, 2012

Location: District 2Document Number: 606064Project: Scheduled and emergency bridge substructurerepairs at various locations.Low Bidder: SPS New England Inc.Bid Amount: $794,380Completion Date: Feb. 25, 2012

Location: PepperellDocument Number: 603671Project: Bridge replacement Br. No. P-06-003 (Concrete)Mill Street over the Nissitissit River. Low Bidder:New England Infrastructure Inc.Bid Amount: $1,428,566Completion Date:May 11, 2012

Location: FitchburgDocument Number: 604634Project: FAP# BR-002S(157)X Bridge replacement Br.No. F-04-053 (concrete carbon fiber pipe) Ashby WestRoad over the Scott Reservoir Outlet.Low Bidder: R. Bates & Sons Inc.Bid Amount: $890,480Completion Date:Oct. 21, 2011

Location: District 6Document Number: 606099Project: Scheduled and emergency bridge structural andsubstructural repairs at various locations. Low Bidder:N.E.L. CorporationBid Amount: $1,746,954Completion Date:Nov. 16, 2012

Location: AndoverDocument Number: 105202Project: FAP# BRS-002S(149) Bridge rehabilitation(including painting) Br. No. A-09-038 (Steel) Route 28(Main Street) over Route 125. Low Bidder:Northern Construction Service LLCBid Amount: $2,867,635Completion Date: July 8, 2012

Location: Dover, NeedhamDocument Number: 603716Project: Bridge replacement Br. No. D-10-004=N-04-007(Concrete) Willow Street over the Charles River. Low Bidder: P. Gioioso & Sons Inc.Bid Amount: $2,864,546Completion Date: Sept. 22, 2012

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Center Arch Span Placedon Lake Champlain BridgeCROWN POINT, N.Y. (AP) The center

arch span for the new Lake ChamplainBridge arrived by barge Aug. 26 and wasbeing hoisted into place, another step inrelinking New York and Vermont over thelake’s southern end. The 402-ft. (122.5 m), 1.8 million-lb.

(816,466 kg) arch began its journey on twobarges around 6 a.m. Aug. 26 from its con-struction site at a marina in Port Henry onthe lake’s western shore. Two tug boatspushed the barges 2 mi. (3.2 km) across thelake and delivered the arch to the bridge siteby 8 a.m. Crews then positioned the arch so it could

be lifted into place using pairs of cablehoists mounted on each end of the uncom-pleted bridge. William Reynolds,spokesman of the New York stateDepartment of Transportation, said the lift-ing started early afternoon and was expect-ed to take four to six hours to complete. The arch is the last major section of the

2,100-ft. (640 m) long bridge to be installed. “The arch will be secured into place by

the end of today,” Reynolds said Aug. 26 byphone from the bridge construction site, 100mi. (161 km) north of Albany. DOT officials had originally said the new

$70 million bridge would be open by earlyOctober, but they’ve since backed off on anopening date after spring flooding along theLake Champlain shoreline caused construc-tion delays. Reynolds said the bridge willdefinitely be open by the end of this year,most likely sometime in the fall. About 250 people gathered along the

lakeshore at the Crown Point State HistoricSite in sunny, 70-degree weather to watchthe eight-story-tall arch make its way slow-ly across the lake to the southern narrowsseparating New York and Vermont. Theoriginal bridge linking Crown Point andAddison, Vt., was demolished in December

2009 after inspectors deemed the 80-year-old span unsafe. The new bridge will con-nect the same two communities. Lisa Cloutier, owner of a restaurant just

off the Vermont end of the bridge, has man-aged to keep her place open despite thespan’s closure and all the construction activ-ity outside her front door. The arch’s arrivalfilled her Bridge Restaurant with customers,preventing her from getting outside to get alook at all the fuss. “Right now, I’m going nuts in my

kitchen, but I’m pretty happy,” she told TheAssociated Press over the phone. “I haven’tseen the arch because I haven’t been able toget past my kitchen, but that’s good.” The arch arrived at the bridge site on the

82nd anniversary of the original bridge’sopening. Originally a toll bridge owned andoperated by the Lake Champlain BridgeCommission, the tolls were removed inSeptember 1987 when the commission wasabolished and ownership was transferred tothe two states, with New York in charge ofmaintaining the span. Two decades later, New York and

Vermont officials began discussing plans toeither refurbish the span or replace it. Thedecision was made for them when inspec-tions of the bridge’s concrete piers revealedserious erosion and the span was closed forgood on Oct. 16, 2009. The closure was felt immediately on both

sides of the bridge, which was used by about3,500 vehicles a day. People commuting tojobs had to take detours of up to 100 miles,while restaurants and retail stores saw animmediate drop in business. A controlledexplosive demolition brought down the 80-year-old span crashing into the lake amid asnow storm on Dec. 28, 2009. A free ferry service started at the site Feb.

1, 2010, helped bring back some of the traf-fic to local communities.

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