Western MA has that everywhere. Even in Greenfield, which is the largest town in Franklin Co, the town has a truck with 2 guys filling potholes 8 hours a day, 5 days a week and they don’t keep up.
Several models trying to give a glimmer of hope, can't quite call it a trend until it is an actual trend but let's see what happens as we get better sampling as you alluded to yesterday.
I know! I went with our brewery yesterday while they were canning it. such great folks! Glad I wasn't driving because they had me try one of everything.
Many of the back roads in the hill towns have become impassable due to mud. Dropped the boy off at a friends house in Colrain and never got the Subaru out of second gear.