{"id":4623,"date":"2011-08-18T08:22:44","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T12:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4623"},"modified":"2011-08-19T10:49:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T14:49:11","slug":"morning-read-champlain-bridge-opening-celebration-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/08\/18\/morning-read-champlain-bridge-opening-celebration-delayed\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Champlain bridge opening, celebration delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.burlingtonfreepress.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=2011110817015\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4624\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4624\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/08\/18\/morning-read-champlain-bridge-opening-celebration-delayed\/champlain-bridge-photo110818\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4624\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4624\" title=\"champlain bridge photo110818\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/08\/champlain-bridge-photo110818-300x281.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/08\/champlain-bridge-photo110818-300x281.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/08\/champlain-bridge-photo110818-150x140.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/08\/champlain-bridge-photo110818-450x422.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/08\/champlain-bridge-photo110818.jpg 746w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4624\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers still need to install the Champlain bridge&#39;s new arch (Photo:  Brian Mann)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Burlington Free Press<\/a> reported this week that celebrations planned for this October to inaugurate the new Champlain bridge in Crown Point will be delayed until next May.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt is difficult to plan and execute a celebration of this magnitude  when the opening date of the new bridge is an unknown,\u201d said [Karen] Hennessy,  co-chairwoman of the volunteer Lake Champlain Bridge Community and owner  of Sugar Hill Manor bed and breakfast in Crown Point, N.Y.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/poststar.com\/news\/local\/new-lake-champlain-bridge-takes-shape-opening-may-be-delayed\/article_5f6273b8-bd22-11e0-a62a-001cc4c002e0.html\">Glens Falls Post Star<\/a>, the opening date for the bridge were thrown into question by last spring&#8217;s epic rains, which raised Lake Champlain to historic levels.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Staff from the state and contractor, however, are negotiating a possible extension given because of spring flooding, [DOT spokeswoman Carol] Breen said. The extension could, at the very least, affect the overall completion date or even the earlier opening date.<\/p>\n<p>This past winter, the contractor requested and received an extension when construction efforts hit an underwater obstruction, Breen said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Burlington Free Press reported this week that celebrations planned for this October to inaugurate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[877,10,4802,879],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4625,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623\/revisions\/4625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}