The Bachelor and Hollywood comes to southern Vermont

It was a little bit of an experiment for us it's O'Keefe said.The timing was good, being in early December and on a Monday and Tuesday. This is probably on the higher end of interruption for the community."

From early Monday morning into early Tuesday afternoon, Main Street was closed to automobile traffic from the roundabout at Main and Bonnet streets to Memorial Avenue. Tuesday, Memorial Avenue was closed from Main Street to the public parking lot near the field at Manchester Elementary and Middle School. Both streets reopened early Tuesday afternoon and tha Through Manchester's new special events permitting process, the police chief is responsible for issuing permits for road closings, according to O'Keefe. In addition to the cost of the permits, approximately $500, the town was reimbursed for extra equipment, primarily signs and labor costs for the police and public works departments.

In total, the production paid the town approximately $8,000, O'Keefe said.We recovered the cost that we had into it essentially," said O'Keefe And There were definitely some traffic concerns and some safety concerns, so we did have extra police presence.
Whole the town did receive some complaints from business owners on Main Street inconvenienced by the road closing, ObServe said he hopes the exposure from the filming will benefit them in the long term.

Any time that you have an event like this, it brings new people to town and possible repeat business," he said. "For a community that thrives on importing visitors and residents, it seems like the net benefits outweighs the inconveniences and It is the town will be reaching out to business owners after this, according to O'Keefe. Timing is everything when it comes to bringing special events to Manchester, he added.

Without events like this and the sports tournaments we've seen hosting, it's nice that we can schedule them for times that aren't as busy," ObServe said. "I'd have a much different view if it was Fourth of July weekend.