Quincy Crane Main Library Tree Down over the Long Holiday Weekend #departmentofnaturalresources

Quincy Crane Main Library Tree Down over the Long Holiday Weekend

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Quincy Quarry News personnel out and about on the mean and recently freakin’ freezing streets of the Q over the long Christmas Holiday happened upon a downed tree at Quincy’s main Crane Public Library at roughly 2:20 PM on Monday the day after Christmas Day. 

No idea when the tree went down, however.

Reasons as to not knowing when include that the Quincy Quarry’s holiday weekend News crew was pretty much holed in the Quarry’s employee lounge so as to stay warm.

That and binging on watching football games as well as draining the lounge’s free beer taps and chowing down on the game days’ buffet offerings. 

Distracted driver checking up on his mobile device
A Quincy Quarry Citizen Photojournalist file photo

Granted, technically Monday was a holiday.

Then again, it is still only fair to note that certain city work teams have long been known to at least watch games as well as check up on things on their mobile device while on the clock.

That and how the City of Quincy’s Department of Natural Resources, née Park and Rec Department, is what it is.

Even so, the clearly significant amount of fallen limbs posed a mess.

A selfie of the City of Quincy Tree Warden
A Tobe Hooper image

The downed branches also posed a public safety hazard even if while nothing fell on the library, a considerable amount of limbs fell onto a paved walkway and so added to the obvious public safety concerns.

In turn, as well as in all fairness, when the Quarry circled back around for a follow up check almost exactly twenty-four hours later, both the fallen limbs as well as the tree were gone; however, when the branches were cleared is uncertain.

Further, one can only reasonably assume that replacing the tree is not likely to happen anytime soon, if ever.

Note now but a stump center left foreground
A Quincy Quarry News exclusive image

Reasons why this now-former tree will likely not be replaced include that when another tree in this particularly planting of trees suffered storm damage and was so cut down roughly a decade ago, that also former tree was never replaced.

Not that this cavalier care of the City of Quincy’s trees other than those along Kim Jong Koch Plaza should came as any surprise whatsoever to any of the ever-growing legions of loyal Quincy Quarry News readers.

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