💪 Major respect to our DPW team. Their knowledge of our streets, trucks, and operations is unmatched. Seeing it firsthand helps me explain the work, answer questions, and advocate for resources & grant funding to improve our equipment and systems.

🚜 Thank you all for your hard work!

🔹 Final Run: Plowed around Will Thompson Way & surrounding streets before I wrapped up at 9 AM—4 hours for me, 12+ for these guys.

🔹 6:30 AM: Saw our trackless sidewalk plow clearing Broad St & Mechanic St sidewalks. 💙

🔹 7:00 AM: Stopped at dispatch for coffee & checked out the new tracking system—this lets us match service calls with available equipment & monitor plow locations/issues.

🔹 Snow Ops Updates:
✅ Route Adjustments – Dedicated teams for dead ends & main lines to optimize efficiency.
✅ More Salt – We secured extra deliveries despite regional shortages.
✅ Real-Time Tracking – New system lets us see plow locations, stops & ops in real-time for better response & efficiency.

🌨 4 AM: Picked up in Manual Peterbilt Truck 50 by Charley Parillo, DPW Working Foreman. Charley, with his unrestricted CDL, took on Northeast Fitchburg’s tough hills—Arn-How, Richardson, High Rock, Kinsman, Pearl Hill & more.

🕔 Hours:
Monday-Saturday: 5 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Sunday: 6 a.m. - 1 p.m.

📞 Call ahead for pickup orders: (978) 345-8030
🌐 Learn more: www.the5050diner.com

For 25 years, The 50/50 Diner has been more than just a place to grab a reliable breakfast or a hot cup of coffee... it’s been the place you see all the people you know, the people you can always count on to know your name

If you haven’t been there already today, swing by 📍440 River St, Fitchburg

I was honored to be elected to the Mayors Board alongside Mayor Nicholson of Gardner who’s stepping in as President... & thanks to Mayor Mazzarella for nominating our slate! North Central Mass mayors are showing up at the State level... our region is well represented to advocate for our needs. 💪

Makes me feel so good to be in a room full of people who want to talk about landfill costs, net school spending deficit effects on city-side budgets, unsustainable rising health insurance costs, and investments in housing. (Riveting stuff my friends snore at ... but my fellow mayors get me! 😂)