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B5 Rutland Daily Herald St3t6 Wednesday, June 2, 2004 Paving projects around the state BEGTwc" 5 2 XttXj 8 2 fi I I 5 The Associated Press MONTPELIER Major paving projects planned this year around Vermont include: A 23.7-mile stretch of Interstate 91 southbound from Rockingham to Brattleboro, cost about $5.5 million. Both sides of a 10.6-mile stretch of 1-89 between Waterbury and Montpelier, cost about $3.1 million. A 9.1-mile stretch of 1-89 northbound from Waterbury to Bolton, cost about $1.7 million. A 6.6-mile stretch of 1-91 southbound from Newbury to Bradford, cost about $1.1 U.S. Route 7 from Pownal to Bennington, 10.1 miles, $1.8 million.

Vermont Route 22-A from Addison to Panton, 2.8 miles, cost not available. Vermont Route 207 from St. Albans to Highgate, 7.4 miles, combined with 6.9 miles of U.S. Route 7 from St. Albans to Swanton, $2.2 million.

Vermont Route 100 from Dover to Stratton, 6.9 miles, $2.6 million. Vermont Route 103 from Ludlow to Mount Holly, 10.6 miles, $3.2 million. Vermont Route 108 in Cambridge, 6.9 miles, cost not available. The Associated Press MONTPELIER A New Hampshire firm has been chosen as the low bidder to repave parts of Interstate 89 between Montpelier and Bolton, paving the way for the work to begin in about two weeks, a transportation official said Tuesday. Mike Hedges, paving program manager for the state Agency of Transportation, said Pike Industries of Belmont, N.H., emerged as the low bidder when bids were opened Friday.

We expect the contract to be signed within a week and work to begin a week or so after that, so that gets us to mid-June, Hedges said. The repaving should take two to three months, Hedges said, and is expected to make for smoother travel on a road that has been the bane of many motorists due to its ruts and potholes. The agency put out two bid requests: one to repave the interstate on both sides between Montpelier and Waterbury and a second to repave the northbound side of the highway between Waterbury and Bolton. The southbound side of that stretch was repaved last year, Hedges said. Pike was the low bidder on both projects.

They will cost a combined $4.8 million, some $640,000 less than the state estimated the work would cost. Hedges said paving contractors have been THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Cars pass a sign advising of upcoming roadwork on Interstate 89 in Montpelier Tuesday. A New Hampshire firm has been chosen as the low bidder to repave parts of Interstate 89 between Montpelier and Bolton, paving the way for the work to begin in about two weeks, a transportation official said Tuesday. to seep through it rather than remain on the surface of the road. He said that paving mix reduced splashing, reduced the risk of hydroplaning and provided a quieter ride.

Hedges said its unclear why the pavement failed to last the expected 15 to 20 years in some applications. For the past several years, the agency has been using paving material that isnt prone to unexplained failures, Hedges said. It is being used this year on the 1-89 and on other major paving projects, coming in below estimates on other projects this year, saving the state about $2 million total so far. I-89s surface has been deteriorating rapidly in the sections to be repaved, even though a new surface was just applied nine years ago, Hedges said. He said the widely reported assertion that the pavement used during the last resurfacing was experimental was a misconception.

We used that material for about 30 years, he said, adding that it was valued for the fact that its porous nature allowed water paving. Hedges said that compared with projects requiring work below the surface, the work on the 1-89 stretches and the section of 1-91 in Bradford will be simple. Thats three-quarters of an inch of a problem, Hedges said of the 1-89 and Bradford-Newbury work. Weve got problems that go a lot deeper than that in other parts of the state. A 24-mile stretch of Interstate 91 from Rockingham to Bratdeboro on the southbound side.

A6.6mile stretch of 1-91 southbound in Bradford and Newbury; Vermont Route 100 between Dover and Stratton. Hedges said the Bradford-Newbury section had been paved with the same paving mix as the sec tions of Interstate 89 that have been failing. He said the Brattleboro-Rockingham section needed work on its top two layers, and that the Dover-Stratton section of Route 100 needs more extensive work as well. On the Dover-Stratton stretch, crews will be rototilling the existing pavement and using it for a subbase as they apply a new layer of surface Vt. to confer with N.H.

on missing women The Whitney disappearance comes in the aftermath of the February disappearance of Maura Murray, a University of Massachusetts student, who had a minor, single-vehicle traffic accident in Haverhill, N.H. On March 19, Brianna Maidand of Sheldon disappeared after leaving her job in Montgomery. Haverhill is roughly 100 miles from Montgomery and Johnson is between the two, about 26 miles from Montgomery. I havent seen any cases like this in Vermont, Marcoux said. Marcoux says Vermont investigators will meet with New Hampshire detectives to see if any additional links can be found.

By WILSON MNG The Associated Press MONTPELIER Investigators in Vermont are planning to meet with their counterparts in New Hampshire to compare notes after the third woman went missing in the region since February, a sheriff said. The Lamoille County sheriffs department is working with the Vermont State Police in their search for Jodie Whitney, said Lamoille County Sheriff Roger Marcoux. The only common thread Stoweflake Resort in Stowe, between the cases is the vehicles, This individual is a very reliable said Marcoux. person. She doesnt miss work Shes Weve got three women missing never late.

She has a supervisory and in each case there has been an position. She has a 3-year-old daugh-abandoned vehicle found, ter at home, Marcoux said. This is very out of character for her. Whitneys car was found abandoned the next day. Marcoux wouldnt reveal where the car was found other than to say it was within five miles of her home.

Whitney is described as being 5 feet, 3 inches tall and weighing 110 pounds. She has shoulder-length brown hair and brown eyes. Marcoux said he called the Vermont State Police and investigators started working on the case immediately. This is ajoint investigation with the state police and if there are a lot of similarities we are going 3 to know it, Marcoux said. We are pouring resources into it right from the get go.

Burlington group to erect Navy Memorial near lake THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Convicted Killer Cary Sampson is escorted into Hillsbourough County Superior Court in Nashua, N.H., Tuesday, where he pleaded guilty to killing Robert Whitney in New Hampshire. Sampson is already facing execution for killing Massachusetts residents Phillip McCloskey and Jonathon Rizzo. The killings happened in July 2001. The Associated Press BURLINGTON A Navy memorial committee is raising money for a bronze statue that will stand on the Lake Champlain waterfront. Monday, Sen.JamesJeffords, I-Vl, presented the Lake Champlain Navy Memorial Steering Committee a check for $100,000, during a ceremony at the Robert T.

Stafford Confessed killer Sampson pleads guilty in N.H. case engagements will rest behind him. An American flag, flanked by Navy and Marine flags, flies at the site. James Austin, co-chairman of the steering committee, said the members hope to have the statue in place by October. The memorial will cost about $350,000, which the committee will pay for with the federal contribution and private fund-raising.

United States Navy Memorial. The federal money will help to pay for a replica of the Lone Sailor statue at the U.S. Navy Memorial in Washington, D.C. Vermont has one of the best naval histories, but no seacoast," said Jeffords, a retired Navy captain. So we thought wed better make sure we have an adequate memorial that will remind people of something so great that happened in this state, landlocked as it is.

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After a federal jury in Massachusetts condemned Sampson to die last December, U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf ordered Sampson executed in neighboring New Hampshire, which hasnt executed anyone since 1939. Wolf ordered the execution carried out in New Hampshire to make it accessible to the families of Sampsons victims and interested members of the public, and to consolidate future appeals in the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. I got sentenced to death.

Send me back to death row and when the day comes, send me back here to get executed, Sampson said. But getting sentenced to life in New Hampshire could indirectly bolster Sampsons effort to avoid execution because it would ensure that he never would be released. Sampsons sentence in New Hampshire will not be considered in the Massachusetts appeal. But if Sampson wins a new sentencing hearing there, then what he does here might be of some significance, said Franklin Pierce Law Center professor Albert Scherr. Scherr also said the plea is consistent with Sampsons apparent effort to take responsibility for his actions.

Whitney, a former Concord city councilor, real estate developer and contractor, was killed at a friends vacation home where he had gone to mow the lawn. Authorities found his body bound and gagged and tied tq a chair locked inside a bathroom, Delaney said. Whitneys children were in the courtroom, but they left after the hearing without commenting. There is nothing the state of New Hampshire can do today to bring back to the Whitney family what Gary Sampson has taken away from them, but what today does represent to them is closure to the legal proceedings in New Hampshire, Delaney said. By HOLLY RAMER The Associated Press NASHUA, J.H.

A man facing execution for killing two men in Massachusetts pleaded guilty Tuesday to killing a third in New Hampshire. Gary Sampson, who admitted killing Robert Eli Whitney in July 2001, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and received the mandatory sentence of life without parole. He said he agreed to the plea not only because he is guilty but because prosecutors agreed to keep him out of New England while he awaits execution. Sampson, who is appealing his death sentence, spoke forcefully in court, interrupting the judges questions to complain about the prison chains on his waist and make his case for being returned to the federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind. I dont want to cost the state money, he said.

I dont want to cause the families any grief. Ive caused enough grief. I just want to get this over with. Im sick and tired of the media playing games and twisting this and profiting off other peoples grief and the aggravation I go through and the families go through. Sampson, 44, has been held at the prison where Timothy McVeigh was executed since he was sentenced to death earlier this year in Massachusetts.

New Hampshire prosecutor Michael Delaney said Sampson knows a lot of the prison population in the region and wanted to move away. There was an agreement, Sampson told Hillsborough County Superior Court Judge Bernard Hampsey. I come out here, I plead guilty, and Im returned back to death row within seven days. And if thats not it, Ill drop my plea. A drifter who grew up in Abington, Sampson confessed to killing two men during carjackings in Massachusetts before murdering Whitney, 58, in Meredith.

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