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Selectmen hear Crane Hill Bridge replacement timetable; completion targeted Oct. 2026
Summary
At the Aug. 25 Selectmen’s meeting, board members reviewed the organizational meeting for the Crane Hill Bridge Project: Cold River has mobilized, Consolidated must relocate lines, abutments are expected by December, and overall completion is targeted for October 2026 with no road closures expected before spring.
The Sugar Hill Selectmen on Aug. 25 received an update on the Crane Hill Bridge Project following an organizational meeting held Aug. 21.
Meeting minutes say the project group discussed invoice routing and scheduling. Invoices will go through NHDOT to Red McCarthy and Rose Ellms, then to Town Administrator Jennifer Gaudette for payment, with the board aiming to avoid using a TAN (temporary funding note) if possible.
Contractor Cold River has mobilized and is building a bypass, the minutes state; Consolidated must move utility lines before full work can begin. The board was told abutments are expected to be in place by December 2025, after which work will pause and then resume in spring 2026. The project’s planned completion date is October 2026. Officials said they do not expect road closures until next spring.
The update did not include specific contract amounts, contingency funding, or final traffic-control plans; those details were not specified in the minutes. The board recorded that construction scheduling and utility coordination remain pending tasks for staff and the project team.
What happens next: project stakeholders will continue coordination with NHDOT and utility owners; the Selectmen will monitor invoices and funding to avoid interim borrowing, the minutes say.
