Crown Point News

The day of reckoning - and wrecking - has arrived for the Champlain Bridge. The 80-year-old bridge between Crown Point, N.Y., and Addison, Vt., is to be brought down about 10 a.m. today with controlled explosions.

Since 1609, when Samuel de Champlain became the first European to see the body of water now bearing his name, there had been the dream of bridging the waterway.

Moriah toppled Ticonderoga, 63-49, in Champlain Valley Athletic Conference boys basketball play Dec.

The Ticonderoga Ferry resumed running Sunday but ran into problems Monday as its channel began to ice over.

Lorraine Franklin sat in her empty store Monday evening, remembering what a typical night here used to look like: frenzied parents grabbing a pizza, frazzled workers picking up six-packs, night shift employees loading up on coffee.

So far I've found two sources on-line where you can watch live video on Wednesday of the demolition of the Crown Point bridge.

Public viewing areas will be set up on the New York side of Lake Champlain - but not in Vermont - when a bridge connecting the states is destroyed with controlled explosions this week.

For the last several months, New York state and Vermont have been hosting public information sessions on the fate of the Champlain Bridge.

Crown Point topped Johnsburg, 42-34, in Mountain and Valley Athletic Conference girls basketball action Dec.

The transportation crisis in the Champlain valley just got a little worse. The Plattsburgh Press-Republican is reporting this afternoon that the car ferry at Ticonderoga has been shut down by ice jams.

An advisory committee has recommended a last-minute design as the replacement for the closed Lake Champlain Bridge, set to be demolished in the coming weeks.

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"Some say the world will end in fire. Some say in ice." Robert Frost's meditation seems pretty spot-on as we contemplate the demise of the historic Crown Point bridge.

CHRIS CAROLA TICONDEROGA, N.Y. a ' New Yorkers and Vermonters affected by the closure of the Lake Champlain Bridge linking the two states got the opportunity Saturday to see and weigh in on six possible designs for a new span.

An Idaho company will blow up the Champlain Bridge. The Vermont Agency of Transportation announced Friday that Advanced Explosives Dynamics Inc.

Comment on this story FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2009 State officials in New York and Vermont have issued a contract to two companies to demolish the bridge across Lake Champlain between Crown Point, NY and Addison, VT.

ADDISON, Vt. - Employees of an Idaho demolition company have been reported in the Town of Addison in preparation for disassembling the Lake Champlain Bridge between Addison and Crown Point.

Lake Champlain Transportation says it is ramping up ferry service between Charlotte, Vt., and Essex, N.Y., to meet an increase in ridership resulting from the closed Champlain Bridge.

The New York State Department of Transportation and Empire State Development announced today that those business owners and industries affected by the Champlain Bridge closure can now apply online for Governor Paterson's $2.94 million economic assistance program.

Lake Champlain Transportation officials said Thursday that a decision hasn't been made on whether to close the Essex Ferry when the new Crown Point Ferry opens.