Locust Trees on Main Street

Pedestrians and communters along Main Street have probably noticed the major changes to the block of stores (S & S Videos, Simply Red, Little Venice, etc) along the the north side of Main Street. Tree service crews, under the direction of NYSEG, came in and cut away all the Locust trees in front of that block. The trees had to be removed in order to do any of the planned sidewalk and utility work in that area. Economy Paving's sidewalk crews will remove the stumps and will replant trees in the same spots once their work is complete. According to the landscape plans the new trees will be Japanese Elms (Ulmus japonica), an elm species resistant to both Dutch Elm Disease and the elm leaf bettle. Planting these elms is both an effort to replace the locust trees lost and to bring back the elm trees reported to historically resided on Main Street before the arrrival of Dutch Elm Disease.