Mountain Times - Volume 48, Number 24: June 12-18, 2019

The Mountain Times • June 12-18, 2019 LOCAL NEWS • 5
Local planning
commissions receive
brownfields grants
Staff report
The Rutland Regional
Planning Commission and
The Two Rivers Ottauquechee
Regional Planning
Commission were
among two recipients of
brownfields grants from the
Environmental Protection
Agency. Six grantees in the
state received a total of $2.2
million. Each organization
received $300,000.
Rutland Regional Planning
Commission Executive
Director Ed Bove said
the money will be used to
fund environmental cleanup
projects in the area.
“We try to invest in sites
that have high potential
for reuse,” Bove said. “We
focus on downtown and
village areas.”
Rutland Regional Planning
Commission recently
invested $115,000 into the
former Berwick Hotel site
in Rutland, which was a
gas station before it was a
hotel that burned in 1973.
Bove said the environmental
clean-up is part of what
led to a developer considering
investing in the site
to build a hotel.
Both planning commissions
have received EPA
grants in the past. The EPA
has awarded $114 million
in assessment grant funding
since it started, with
$109 million in revolving
loan fund grants and
supplemental funding
and $75 million in cleanup
grant funding. There are
an estimated 450,000
brownfields currently
nationwide.
Two Rivers Planning
Commission Executive
Director Peter Gregory
estimated he’s received $1
million in grants from the
EPA in 25 years.
Two Rivers looks to
invest in downtown areas
that are underutilized or
abandoned. Previous Two
Rivers funding has covered
the Farmway site in Bradford
and a former auto
dealership in Woodstock.
“There’s certainly not
enough money to address
them all,” Gregory said.
Singleton’s in
Quechee closes
By Curt Peterson
The Singleton’s Market, located on Route 4 in
Quechee for eight years, closed permanently with
little notice on May 28.
The market was widely known for its interesting
menu of delicious deli sandwiches, high quality, reasonably
priced meats and groceries, to paraphernalia
ranging from antique guns to sunhats to T-shirts and
bear skulls.
And the location was promising – directly across
from the antique gallery and near the yellow blinking
light at Hartland-Ottauquechee Road where the
speed limit is reduced.
According to local reports competition from
Jake’s Market and a run of bad tourist winters made
the store less viable than hoped, and Tom and Linn
Singleton, owners of the original Singleton’s General
Store in Proctorsville, decided to let it go.
“We really appreciate the customers who came to
the Quechee store,” Linn Singleton told The Mountain
Times. “Right now we are busy here in the main
store, keeping our customers happy and moving
forward into the future.”
The Singletons should know what’s best for their
business – the Proctorsville location is booming, and
visitors will find it familiar in many ways to the now
defunct Quechee spin-off – only more so.
According to the company website, Tom’s parents
Bud and Mary started the family business as “Newton’s
Store” in Reading in 1946 – 73 years ago. After a
five-year break they bought some land on Route 131
and opened Singleton’s General Store in Proctorsville
in 1978. Two generations grew it to 7,500 sq. ft.
Singleton’s, page 17
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Table of contents
Local News ................................................................ 2
State News ................................................................. 6
Opinion ..................................................................... 8
News Briefs ............................................................. 10
Calendar .................................................................. 13
Music Scene ............................................................ 16
Rockin’ the Region .................................................. 17
Living ADE .............................................................. 18
Food Matters ........................................................... 22
Mother of the Skye .................................................. 28
Columns .................................................................. 29
Pets .......................................................................... 32
Service Directory .................................................... 34
Classifieds ............................................................... 36
Real Estate ............................................................... 37
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