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Something might finally get done to spruce up the roundabout at Routes 20 and 60. Don't expect a flower show, though.
Pomfret Deputy Town Supervisor Ann Eckman offered an update about the situation at the July Town Board meeting. Eckman has spent more than a year spearheading an effort to beautify the roundabout, completely featureless now except for the weeds that spring up every spring.
"The state is very restrictive on what we are able to do," she said.
A sculpture by Joe Sorci, called "Unfurl," is intended for the center of the roundabout. "I am working with the state and artist on placement of the sculpture," Eckman said.
As for the rest of the roundabout's interior, Eckman has given up on the idea of planting flowers. Maintaining them would be too much of an issue.
She plans to meet with a contractor who can offer about four tons of stone for placement in a decorative pattern on the inside of the roundabout.
"I know a lot of people had said people want to see the flowers like at the roundabout on the (Seneca Nation) reservation," said Eckman. However, she explained there are different circumstances surrounding that roundabout.
"Honestly, it's five times the size of ours. They have water and electricity," she said. That, as well as garden plantings, was put in as part of the Seneca pact with the state to allow its workers on their land.
Locally, "we're trying to find something that is decorative as well as not maintenance-heavy," Eckman said.
She added, "Fingers crossed, it'll be done next month."