Hawthorne station was like Santa’s workshop on Christmas Eve this morning, but instead of elves putting the finishing touches on the children of the world’s trains, drums and dollies, the workers were working to beautify the station.
I counted something like 10 different Mount Pleasant work trucks: pickups, earth movers, etc. Guys were planting flowers in the new stone-wall beds at the northernmost tip of the station, doing the same around the still-covered grandfather clock, and even replacing the busted railroad ties marking parking spots parallel to the tracks.
Town Supervisor Maybury said she would beautify the train area. She wasn’t kidding.