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Article: Houlton councilors hear concerns about unpaved Cook's Brook Road
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- October 4, 2006
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HOULTON - At first glance, the Cook's Brook Road looks like many
other roads in town.
Houses and mailboxes dot the roadsides, and stately trees with
fiery red, tangerine and rust colored leaves scuttle down from tree
branches and onto the roadway in the fall.
But when you pull your vehicle onto the street that is located
just off Drake's Hill, you hear a subtle crunching beneath your
tires. At nighttime, the only light on the road comes from a
vehicle's headlights and the occasional porch light.
The unlit rural, dead-end road is not paved, nor does it have any
sidewalks. Now, some believe that needs to change. At a recent Town
Council meeting Jim Bledsoe, a resident of the street, asked for ...