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| By G. Michael Dobbs Managing Editor CHICOPEE Residents and business owners in the area of Front Street are invited to a public meeting at 6 p.m. Oct. 9 in the community room of the Chicopee Library on Front Street to hear about plans for the reconstruction of the thoroughfare. Mayor Michael Bissonnette said the full-depth reconstruction of Front Street will include the street, sidewalks and lighting and will extend from Grove Street to Depot St. The project is costing $11.8 million in state and federal funding. The plans, he added, are 100 percent complete and there have been two public hearings. Bissonnette said the approach of the project is to complete everything at the same time. He said, that in many such projects a road is re-built, only to be excavated again to accommodate work on utility infrastructure. That won't be the case with the Front Street reconstruction. The project will take two construction seasons and he said, like the sewer project in Fairview, it would be "very disruptive." The meeting will give people the opportunity to ask questions about the reconstruction and how it will affect them. |