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The 11-mile-long East Lake Sammamish Trail that links the communities of Redmond, Sammamish and Issaquah has been undergoing a structural and cosmetic makeover during the past few years.

A cyclist heads south from paved to gravel section of East Lake Sammamish Trail.

The abandoned BNSF Railroad right-of-way that skirts the east side of Lake Sammamish opened 8 years ago this month as a narrow, gravel pathway that rolls past toney lakefront homes.

Long-term plans call for King County to upgrade the gravel path to a 12-foot-wide paved trail with 2-foot soft surface shoulders its entire length. It would serve as a blacktop link in a trail system more than 40 miles long that comprises the Burke-Gilman, Sammamish River, Marymoor Park, and the Issaquah-Preston trails.

More information is available online at the East Lake Sammamish Trailproject website. You can find Real-time updates online. And an FAQ for the East Lake Sammamish Trail improvements is posted here.

Two sections are complete. They are the Redmond Segment (1.2 miles between NE 70th Street and 187th Avenue NE) and the Issaquah Segment (2.2 miles between SE 43rd Way and Gilman Boulevard).

East Lake Sammamish Trail

Sometime this spring April 21 is the expected start the county will close down the 2.6-mile-long North Sammamish Segment between NE 187th Avenue and Inglewood Hill Road NE to begin the improvements there.

The blacktop will make for easier travel for bicyclists, as well as skaters, and the widening will make the trail safer for more users. Intersections and driveway crossings will be improved as will fencing and sight distances.

Still, I expect the upgrade will change the scenery along the trail, so I rolled over there last week to photograph scenes along the North Sammamish Segment that will no doubt change.

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GOT BLACKTOP? STANLEY PAVING WE TOP EM ALL
Finishing driveway paving with Wacker plate FreeHold, NJ.

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Muskingum County Sheriff Matt Lutz is warning residents of an asphalt scam by two men named Bill Boswell and Teddy Lee. Lutz says the two are suspected of running fake businesses called "Asphalt Construction" and "A-1 Paving." Lutz says the two men have been traveling across the nation, making stops in Ohio and right here in Muskingum County going door-to-door askingresidentsif they needtheir driveway re-paved.

"They try to basically convince them to let them put it down without quoting a price," Lutz explained. "They get so far and people see what they're doing and kind of stop them and say , 'hey how much is this going to cost?' and then they over charge them for it."

On top of cheating people out of money, Lutz says the suspects don't finish the job. The two men are known to target the elderly, and have addresses in multiple states.

"Spring and summer will be coming hopefully pretty soon and we want to make sure before that happens, that if these people are seen or these names are used in the community to contact Detective Wilson."

If you have been scammed by Asphalt Construction or A-1 Paving, you are urged to contact Detective Wilson at 740-452-3637 EXT 6019.

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Residents Warned To Keep An Eye Out For Asphalt Scams

Published: Monday, March 3, 2014 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, March 2, 2014 at 6:07 p.m.

Drivers in Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte counties are advised to use caution in the following areas where the Florida Department of Transportation says road construction or other projects are underway:

Expect lane closures tonight and Tuesday night while crews perform maintenance on the north Longboat Key bridge.

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Interstate 75 from Sumter Boulevard in North Port to River Road. Crews widening the highway to six lanes. Expect lane closures from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m.

I-75 from University Parkway to the Charlotte County line. Expect delays. Crews are installing closed-circuit cameras, roadside sensors and other equipment for an intelligent transportation system.

I-75 overpass at Jacaranda Boulevard. Crews painting the overpass. Lane closores on Jacaranda may occur.

I-75 at Fruitville Road, Laurel Road, Jacaranda Road and Sumter Boulevard. Crews replacing overhead signs. Lane closures between 10:30 p.m. and 6 a.m.

U.S. 41 between Shamrock Boulevard and the Lowes entrance in Venice. Southbound outside lane closed from 9 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. while crews construct a new driveway.

U.S. 41 north of Wood Street. Outside southbound lane closed from 1 a.m. to 5:30 a.m. Tuesday while crews perform maintenance.

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Last week, I wrote about the annual Wild Ones conference on designing with native plants and the ideas of speaker Douglas Owens-Pike, founder of EnergyScapes, a St. Paul-based landscape and garden design business that Owens-Pike launched in 1989.

In those days, Martha Stewart was in charge of matters of taste, indoors and out. Her gardens combined traditional English flower borders with the more formal perfectionism of the French and Italian style, all clipped parterres and geometric shapes.

In the glossy pages of Martha Stewart Living and the comparably impeccable Garden Design magazine, the trend to a more relaxed aesthetic became evident in the '90s, as more of the gardens featured native prairie plants and grasses and more of the gardeners credited organic methods for their success.

There seemed to be less emphasis on chemicals and more on how to make compost.

We were advised to mulch our beds and let the organic matter decompose to feed the soil. We were told to ditch the leaf-bag attachment on lawn mowers and let the grass clippings stay put.

As to design, why slavishly copy European gardens? Why not implement an American style?

Garden design has always swung between man's penchant for controlling nature and nature's genius at painting the land with flora that suits the climate and topography and meets the needs of wildlife.

Owens-Pike all along had focused on the plants. An ecologist by training, he believed healthy native soils are best suited for growing healthy native plants.

The plants have a twofold purpose: They beautify the Earth because they are renewing it.

I've often wondered, what exactly is "healthy" soil?

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Blundering Gardener: Here's the dirt on how to grow healthy plants in healthy native soil

Rafkind Road improvements could get underway as early as April.

PHOTO BY DEBBIE WALSH

Borough Engineer Paul Darmofalski delivers a presentation on a Rafkind Road sidewalk assessment and road-paving project.

Residents who live in the Phase II section were invited to the Feb. 18 Borough Council meeting to hear a presentation on the project, which includes new curbing, sidewalks and paving. Residents will be responsible for paying the costs for sidewalks that bound the front of their properties on Rafkind Road.

Borough Engineer Paul Darmofalski said the total project cost of Phase II is estimated at $835,000 including the cost of the sidewalks. The borough received a $250,000 New Jersey Department of Transportation (DOT) grant for the project. The borough's share of the costs will be $380,000 and the residents' share will be $205,000. The 4-foot-wide sidewalks will be 4 inches thick, and driveway aprons will be 8 inches thick. Darmofalski said a property with 100 feet of frontage will have an estimated assessment of $4,867.

At the onset of the presentation, Mayor Jonathan Dunleavy recalled that when the borough received bids for Phase I of the project last fall, the bids came in 38 percent lower than projections and it is hoped the municipality will have the same luck with Phase II. Dunleavy said Darmofalski uses conservative numbers when coming up with the estimates.

According to the mayor, some residents living in the Phase I area were contemplating sidewalk replacements and had sought contractors' estimates for the work. Dunleavy said these residents were pleased with the borough's projections, which came in lower than private contractor estimates. Phase I, which stretches from Glen Road to the end by Martha B. Day School, and Phase II, which encompasses Rafkind Road from Union Avenue to Glen Road, will be completed at the same time.

Dunleavy told residents that the borough acts as the banker for the project. It will bond the project and assess residents based on linear footage. The interest rate secured will likely be in the 0.75- to 1.5-percent range, and the project will be paid for over a 10-year period. If residents recently replaced their sidewalks, they should arrange for Darmofalski to inspect the sidewalk.

Darmofalski said Phase I consisted of 60 properties and 25 of those property owners asked him to visit to complete a sidewalk or apron inspection. Of the 25, 15 did not have to replace their sidewalks or a portion of their sidewalks.

"Most of what we kept was new or almost new. I can't have a checkerboard," he said.

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Published: Sunday, February 23, 2014 at 9:11 p.m. Last Modified: Sunday, February 23, 2014 at 9:11 p.m.

1. State Road 17 at Palm Street (Frostproof): Expect intermittent southbound lane closures from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. while crews build a driveway entrance and sidewalk along the southbound lanes.

2. U.S. 17 from East Central Avenue to East Park Avenue: U.S. 17 will be closed from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday for the lake Wales Mardi Gras parade. Northbound traffic will be detoured at Johnson Avenue and southbound traffic will be detoured at Sessoms Avenue.

3. U.S. 27 from Silver Crest Drive to Bates Road: Crews are relocating light poles and bases at Bates Road and U.S. 27 and constructing turn lanes on U.S. 27. Expect nighttime southbound lane closures and daytime southbound shoulder closures.

4. U.S. 98 at Farm Road: Crews are placing signs and pavement markings.

5. Interstate 4 eastbound exit ramp at County Line Road and South Frontage Road: Daytime lane closures while crews install drainage structures, widen the roadway and begin paving at eastbound exit ramp.

6. Rock Ridge Road at Gator Creek: Crews will be demolishing the westbound lanes of the bridge. Traffic is scheduled to be shifted from the south side of the bridge to new lanes on the north side. The project includes new pavement markers at Rock Ridge Road from U.S. 98 to Deen Still Road.

7. SR 60 from west of Saddlebag Lake Road to east of Sam Keen Road: No lane closures are scheduled as crews add street lights to both sides of the roadway. Work is expected to be complete in the fall.

8. U.S. 98 from County Road 540A to SR 540 (Winter Lake Road): Roadway widening and installation of drainage pipes.

9. SR 60 from west of U.S. 98 to west of U.S. 17: Drivers should watch for intermittent nighttime lane closures through Thursday.

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Overlay Driveway
Video showing StoneSet overlay driveway paving. Surface dressing for concrete or asphalt surfaces using resin bound pebbles.

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Last Friday, Feb. 21, the Weekly reported that Pima County Supervisor Ally Miller had changed transportation staff recommendations on transportation projects to include paving of Oasis Road in her own neighborhoodand that one of her closest political allies and other campaign contributors lived along Oasis Road as well.

Miller did not return a phone call from the Weekly to answer questions about her transportation priorities before our stories ran, but she and her defenders later complained that the stories were inaccurate because a portion of Oasis Road in front of the contributors' homes were not paved.

Sherese Steffens, for example, argued on this blog that Pima Countys road repair was conveniently stopped just before the driveway to Steffens and Jimenez's house. So maybe you should get your facts straight before you print a hit piece. And in case you also didn't check out the facts, we pay pima county property taxes and a lot of them. Was stopping the paving before our houses political retribution for our support of Ally? Looks that way doesn't it.

The big problem with Steffens argument: That section Oasis Road that remained unpaved actually belongs to the town of Marana, which annexed roughly 37 acres in the area last October.

Marana Planning Director Ryan Mahoney confirmed today that Pima County paved the road up to the Marana town limits and that a stretch of approximately 1/8 of a mile inside of Marana remained unpaved.

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