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Daily Five: Kobyluck, Dancing At The Mall

Five Things To Know For Friday, Dec. 2, 2011

1. Today should be cloudy, with a high of 50, according to the National Weather Service. Tonight should stay cloudy, with a low of 29, according to the service.

2. Just some clarifications to process stone at 28 Industrial Drive, derived from Thursday’s Conservation Commission meeting.

It is not a quarry Kobyluck is proposing; it is a plant to process stone. That said, there would be substantial quarrying for at least five years if the proposal is approved.

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To flatten out the land in order to build the manufacturing plant would require the company to dig down 50 feet over seven acres of land, company owner Matt Kobyluck said. That will take five years to do, he said.

All the stone extracted from the excavation, which would include the blasting of bedrock, would be processed on site, he said. Once the excavation is complete, then only rock from other sites would be brought in to be processed, Kobyluck said.

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Additionally, the proposed vehicle maintenance facility for up to 75 vehicles has been removed from the application to make the site more concentrated, he said.

3. Tonight at the Crystal Mall, dancers from the Arthur Murray Dance Studio will be performing from 6:30 to 8:30.  

4. One new movie opens tonight at Waterford’s . Hugo, about a boy who lives alone in a Paris train station, plays at 7:15, and the 3-D version plays at 4, 6:50 and 9:35. The movie stars Ben Kingsley and Sacha Baron Cohen, and is directed by Martin Scorsese.

5. On this date in 2001, Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. And on this date in 1845, President James Polk tells Congress the United States should aggressively start moving west, raising the idea of Manifest Destiny.

Quote of the Day

“I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars. I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.”

-Warren Buffet

Trivia of the Day

What was the name of the project to design a nuclear bomb during World War II?

Yesterday’s Answer: The first company to adopt the moving assembly line was Ford Motor Company.


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