On Wednesday, September 21, 2022, the Town of Millbury's Department of Public Works / Highway Department's subcontractor, J.H. Lynch & Sons, Inc., has started laying down the base (binder) layer of asphalt on the driveway aprons and sidewalks serving households on Thomas Hill Road, Aldrich Avenue, and Captain Peter Simpson Road and will start hydroseeding areas that were loamed. A finish layer of asphalt will follow.

On Friday, September 2, 2022, the Town of Millbury's Department of Public Works / Highway Department's subcontractor, J.H. Lynch & Sons, Inc., laying down the final layer of asphalt on Thomas Hill Road, Aldrich Avenue, and Captain Peter Simpson Road. It is assumed, but not confirmed, that Rice Road will follow next week between the Providence & Worcester Railroad crossing in a northwesterly direction to South Main Street.

On Friday, September 2, 2022, the Town of Millbury's Department of Public Works / Highway Department's subcontractor, J.H. Lynch & Sons, Inc., has begun laying down the final layer of asphalt throughout our neighborhood of Rice Road, Thomas Hill Road, Aldrich Avenue, and Captain Peter Simpson Road.

On Wednesday, August 24, 2022, the Town of Millbury's Department of Public Works / Highway Department's subcontractor, J.H. Lynch & Sons, Inc., began raising structures throughout our neighborhood of Rice Road, Thomas Hill Road, Aldrich Avenue, and Captain Peter Simpson Road.

On Monday, August 15, 2022, the Town of Millbury's Department of Public Works / Highway Department's subcontractor, J.H. Lynch & Sons, Inc., completed laying down the base layer of asphalt onto the gravel base throughout our neighborhood of Rice Road, Thomas Hill Road, Aldrich Avenue, and Captain Peter Simpson Road, and partially reconfigured the T intersection at Rice Road and South Main Street. The gravel remaining will not be paved and will be a grassed area or perhaps a continuation of the South Main Street sidewalk. The existing island will be removed and paved over.

On Tuesday, August 9, 2022, the Town of Millbury's Department of Public Works / Highway Department's subcontractor, J.H. Lynch & Sons, Inc., has begun laying down the base layer of asphalt onto the gravel base. They began on the lower part of Captain Peter Simpson Road and will be working their way through our neighborhood of Rice Road, Thomas Hill Road, Aldrich Avenue, and Captain Peter Simpson Road. More layers will follow and structures will have to be raised above the base layer so they will be flush with the finished layer of asphalt.