Paddle the Border Runs Its 23rd Yearly Float
They paddled to the Bugbee Landing just north of the Bradford Golf Club in good stead, considering there was, at times, a slight chop to the surface of the mighty Connecticut River as she wound her way from the North Country to the New York outlet into the Atlantic Ocean so many miles away.
Bedell Bridge Down
Many lucky people were on the bridge that night, and except for one, all ran to safety. It was quite a night for area first responders when the alarm went out that the nearly new Bedell Bridge, an entirely wooden covered bridge, had been destroyed in a sudden windstorm that raced up the river and hit the bridge with a fast-moving ton of force.