MT. VERNON Mt. Vernon Township High School has awarded three construction bids for the new school project.

The three bids are in the work categories of earthwork, asphalt and ceramic tile. These are categories that will not undergo significant scope changes during the ongoing redesign of the new school.

For earthwork, a low bid of $1,466,850 from Moniger Excavating was awarded. In the asphalt category, the low bid of $1,067,990 from Rooters Asphalt was awarded. And finally, the low bid of $30,540 from TSI Commercial Floor Covering was awarded in the ceramic tile category.

Were excited that were able to award our first bids related to the project and indications that were making forward progress, said Superintendent Michael Smith.

The three bids were awarded at Tuesday nights meeting of the MVTHS Board of Education.

There are still about 22 more work categories that need to be bid out. The rebidding of these categories is now set to take place this summer, with construction of the new school to begin in mid-September.

Even though the three bids have been awarded, work will not commence on those categories until after new bids come in for the other categories, said Brian Baldwin, project manager for the McCarthy firm.

Were going to still wait until the bids come in so that we make sure that the project is still completely on budget, Baldwin said. I think we have a path moving forward and I think this is good progress.

In December, the initial construction bids for the 25 work categories came it at more than $6 million over-budget. This prompted the school district to approve major scope changes to the project to cut costs.

FGM Architects is now completing a redesign of the new school, which is set to be finished in early July. After that, the rebidding will take place.

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Cllr Steven Van De Kerkhove is baffled by the enormous new lights in Eynesbury. They are almost twice as tall as the old ones, as can be seen here.

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Work on lampposts that tower over historic St Neots has been stopped after homeowners complained their street was being blighted.

Cambridgeshire County Council has delegated responsibility for street lighting upgrades to building contractor Balfour Beatty, who set about putting in enormous lampposts twice as tall as the ones they were replacing in Eynesbury in January.

Work has been stopped on the monstrous lights, as residents campaign for an alternative.

Simon Harper, of Eynesbury, returned home from a trip abroad to find the building work well under way.

He said: The new fittings are 10m tall and tower over all the local buildings.

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A St. Helena winemaker has opted to shutter his winery to visitation rather than install a county-mandated sprinkler system. Instead, he will seek historic status for the 1870s-era building.

Bill Ballentines winery, William Cole, was required to install the sprinkler system by Jan. 29 or else have its temporary certificate of occupancy needed to serve customers at the winery revoked.

Ballentine opted to let the temporary certificate lapse rather than install the system and meet another requirement to widen an access road, said former Napa County Supervisor Mel Varrelman, who has been advocating on behalf of WIlliam Cole.

Varrelman said the company can still make and sell wine, but cannot host the public for tastings.

Ballentine has said that the sprinkler system, which would be visible from the buildings exterior, would compromise the historic look hes worked to preserve. He contends that the winery building poses no fire danger since its almost entirely constructed out of stone.

The winery was first built in 1876 by J.C. Weinberger, and Ballentines goal is to get the business listed on the National Register of Historic Places. That would make it regulated by the state, not the county, and remove the sprinkler requirement.

Widening the access road would also remove trees and brush, which are landscaping features designed by the famed landscaping designer Thomas Church.

The whole idea is to preserve his property, Varrelman said. Thats been his goal from the get-go. I hope hes successful. To tear out all those trees doesnt make sense. To run pipes up and down those walls doesnt make any sense.

Napa County Landmarks has nominated the winery for the National Register, and is also advocating that the county use the California Historic Building Code for William Cole, rather than the county building code requirements.

That option would allow the county to work with Ballentine to find an alternative to meet the intent of the building code, the organization stated in an email.

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