A white bicycle, chained to a road sign, stood in sharp contrast to its background. It was a “ghost bike,” a memorial to a cyclist who was struck by a car and died near that spot.
Last week, one appeared on Route 16 in Intervale near where Jackson’s Dick Devellian died. It was a fitting memorial to the valley cyclist.
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