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A surveying crew put stakes and flags up on Landed Gentry’s Maple Field development on Maple Avenue south of Talbott Street early last week to mark utilities placement. An excavator was brought on site, crushed stone placed for a driveway at the southern end and a small inventory of green pipe was left. Orange silt fencing marks the property’s north and south boundaries.

Brian Gentry told the Weekly News Friday that Welch Brothers Construction is the contractor, able to schedule the work, that the delay from August was limited contractor availability and supply shortages. He is optimistic that...