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DORSET â The popular Dorset Quarry swimming hole on Route 30 is reopening for the season this Memorial Day weekend under new ownership.
Ryan Downey, a land surveyor and former town selectman, acquired the quarry and an adjacent lot last October, he said in an interview on Tuesday.
Downey began making improvements to the quarry-adjacent lot in 2019, expanding its parking lot and overhauling its landscaping.
Originally Downey had expected to acquire only the parking-lot parcel from its previous owners, Richard and Kirsten McDonough, with the nonprofit Vermont River Conservancy taking ownership of the quarry itself, which the McDonoughs also owned. But the nonprofit later determined that it did not have the capacity to manage the site, and the deal fell through last year.