Before the snow started to fall, Orlando Velez was stocking up in Newington. “I’d rather the snow than the coldness from the other day,” said Velez. He.
Preston Jim Corley has spent his first month as the town’s new public works manager driving through town and getting to know its roads and bridges, making notes of road and drainage problem spots and overhanging trees that could come down in a storm.
Corley, 36, is the first to fill the newly created position of public works manager, an enhanced role for the head of the Public Works Department upon the retirement of former longtime highway foreman Bob Boyd.
“I am excited about the position, being new,” Corley said this week. “Anyone who got this position would have the opportunity to take the position and run with it and make it their own.”