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Route 626 at Scrabble. "The bottoms have fallen out from 80 per cent of the dirt roads,” Bywaters said, adding that heavy highway department trucks were causing more harm than good in repair efforts.
In addition to the havoc caused by blizzards and torrential rains, highway department crews are beginning to grapple with the annual road break-up caused by spring thaws. “It's still too cool to begin patching. We re just doing temporary work with a coal mix," Bywaters said. He added that permanent repairs could begin as soon as the roads dried out and temperatures stayed above freezing.
Races
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The Casanova Hunt Pointto-point races have again been rescheduled and will now be run on March 10 at Spring Hill Farm near Casanova.
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