Fulton Bank expects to have the excavated site of its future downtown expansion temporarily filled by late April.

The Lancaster-based bank announced the new timetable for the interim East King Street project on Wednesday.

Initially the fill-in project was to be done this fall. But devising a plan for the task took longer than expected, Fulton explained in a letter to neighboring property owners and businesses.

Then, Fulton elected to wait until Jan. 6 to start the process.

The bank wanted to avoid bringing hundreds of dump trucks laden with fill into downtown over the holidays, when the city has extra visitors and events.

Wednesday's statement marks the latest twist to Fulton's plan for constructing a significant center-city expansion.

The addition now on hold indefinitely could cost tens of millions of dollars, industry sources have said, and create hundreds of jobs.

The fill-in project is no small matter either.

It will take about 900 dump truck trips to bring the approximately 12,000 cubic yards of clean fill (clay and stones) needed to fill the hole.

The top six inches will be topsoil, said Jeremy Coble, project manager at Flyway Excavating, the general contractor for the fill-in project.

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Simple information on sodding your lawn.

NOTE: Seedland does NOT sell sod. We do sell 3" X 3" grass plugs for lawns, including Zoysia grass.

A New Sod Installation

If you want a nearly instant lawn and cost is no object, then sodding your lawn is the way to go. Good quality turf sod can form an established lawn in 3-8 weeks that can provide a long lasting and pleasurable lawn.

Grass sods are available for most all cool and warm season grasses. Sodding is many time described as being like installing a new carpet, with the exception that your new lawn will need to be tenderly cared for until it re-establishes itself in your soil.

The majority of sod grown today is harvested by expensive sod harvesting machines that cut the sod either into small squares (2 ft. x 3ft., 1x2, 1.5x3, etc) or into rolls that can be 2 to 5 foot wide and of different lengths (usually 10-30 feet). Probably over 2/3 of all lawns sodded today are installed by commercial grassing companies who have the equipment, experience, and manpower needed to install a lawn quickly. That doesn't mean you can't save money by sodding your lawn yourself. You can!

Your sod lawn should normally be installed within 24 hours of when your sod was harvested for optimum results. If you can schedule your sod needs with you supplier a week in advance, they can usually cut your order and deliver on a specific day. Sometimes it is not practical to locate freshly cut sod, but if you will examine the sod that is available, avoiding yellowing pallets, and looking for sod that was properly kept moist.. you can still successfully plant your lawn. If you can't plant it right away, you can spread out the sod on the ground and by keeping it watered daily it will live indefinitely. Do not leave sod on pallets for generally more than 48 hours, and even then you need to both keep the palleted sod moist and shaded to survive.

Sodding is not cheap. The expense of someone else growing your lawn on their property with all of the associated expenses that are involved in producing top quality sod along with a fair profit determine sod prices. Look through Sodding.com web site and familiarize yourself with the basic sodding principals of establishing a quality lawn from sod.

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Celebration Bermudagrass has been chosen to cover the pitch for five of the stadiums for next years World Cup 2014 in Brazil. The five facilities, scattered throughout the country, include the site of the finals, Estdio Maracan, in Rio de Janeiro. Celebration was selected for its wear tolerance and recovery and also for its ability to handle more shade than most bermuda varieties. Brazil-based turfgrass grower Itograss provided the sod.

Celebration is a great ally we can rely on to have a great playing surface, even in adverse conditions with limited sunlight and intense use, said Alexandre Vieira dos Santos, part owner of Greenleaf Gramados, the company installing the fields. Celebration adapts and performs well under conditions where no one would expect to have high quality fields. It was very evident that Celebration can maintain great quality under heavy wear, recovering quickly from damage caused by excessive games.

Celebration has some of the quickest damage recovery of all grasses on the market today. This will be important with the amount of games to be played on the fields leading up to the World Cup and during the Cup itself. Championship stadium Maracan already hosted six matches in nine days during the month of November. Even after those games, the grass showed World Cup quality standards required by FIFA, the international soccer governing body.

Celebration will likely be involved in another massive event in 2016, as one or more of the fields used for the 2014 World Cup will be utilized for the Rio Summer Olympic Games. Celebration is available to the public in Brazil and also domestically through licensed producers. Sod Solutions is the patent holder and worldwide licensing agent. For more information about Celebration, visit SodSolutions.com.

About Sod Solutions Sod Solutions, Inc. is an international turfgrass research and development company incorporated in the early 90s. The companys primary research facility and headquarters is located near Charleston, S.C. Sod Solutions has developed and worked with universities and breeders to release NorthBridge Bermudagrass, Latitude 36 Bermudagrass, Palmetto St. Augustine, Celebration Bermudagrass, EMPIRE Turf , Sapphire St. Augustine, Captiva St. Augustine, Bella Bluegrass, Discovery Bermudagrass, Santee Centipede, Covington Centipede, Geo Zoysia, Regenerating Perennial Ryegrass, HGT Healthy Grass Technology, and Sunday Ultra-dwarf Bermudagrass. For more information, visit http://www.sodsolutions.com or call 843.849.1288.

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The Associated Press A tarp covers the field at MetLife Stadium ahead of Sunday's game between the New York Giants and the Seattle Seahawks, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013, in East Rutherford, N.J. The days of natural grass may be long gone in many NFL venues, including MetLife Stadium, but that doesnt mean the paint and the texture and the surface doesnt need to be absolutely perfect on Feb. 2, 2014 when millions will watch Super Bowl XLVIII take place at the stadium. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

By DAVID PORTER/Associated Press/December 12, 2013

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) It may qualify as a small irony that in the run-up to the first outdoor, cold-weather Super Bowl, the people seemingly least threatened about the possibility of bad weather are the folks whose job is to protect the surface on which the game will be played.

It should come as no surprise, since the NFLs groundskeeping experts are used to dealing with the elements and improvising when they have to.

Like the time when rehearsals the night before one Super Bowl put foot-deep indentations into the NFL logo at midfield, necessitating an emergency trip to a local high school field where crews dug up chunks of sod as a replacement.

Or the 1970 game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Minnesota Vikings at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, when crews had to spread wood chips and sawdust across the field and paint it green to look presentable.

None of that figures to happen at New Jerseys MetLife Stadium in February, but there certainly will be more scrutiny as the NFL uses the game as a test case for possible future cold-weather games. For all the extra attention, Ed Mangan, the leagues field director for the Feb. 2 game, likened his job to an offensive lineman's, in which anonymity is its own reward.

We set the stage for the players and thats our job; if you cant accept that, you shouldnt be doing it, Mangan said. The best compliment is that nobody mentions the field at all. If they are, it usually means something is wrong.

MetLife Stadium, home to the New York Giants and New York Jets, likely will make things easier for the NFL in one respect. It has an artificial playing surface, which means the league wont have to truck in specially-grown sod as in previous Super Bowls. The re-sodding of Super Bowl fields has become a science, with sod grown up to two years in advance at special farms. (For home lawn enthusiasts, the NFL uses a hybrid Bermuda grass as a base, overseeded with perennial rye grass, Mangan said).

Artificial turf can be affected by snowy or icy conditions but is a big improvement over natural grass, according to Jets kicker Nick Folk.

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MetLife Stadium (Photo by Jeff Zelevansky/Getty Images)

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) It may qualify as a small irony that in the run-up to the first outdoor, cold-weather Super Bowl, the people seemingly least threatened about the possibility of bad weather are the folks whose job is to protect the surface on which the game will be played.

It should come as no surprise, since theNFLsgroundskeeping experts are used to dealing with the elements and improvising when they have to.

Like the time when rehearsals the night before one Super Bowl put foot-deep indentations into theNFLlogo at midfield, necessitating an emergency trip to a local high school field where crews dug up chunks of sod as a replacement.

Or the 1970 game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Minnesota Vikings at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, when crews had to spread wood chips and sawdust across the field and paint it green to look presentable.

BRADSHAW HATES THE IDEA OF A COLD SUPER BOWL

None of that figures to happen at New Jerseys MetLife Stadium in February, but there certainly will be more scrutiny as theNFLuses the game as a test case for possible future cold-weather games. For all the extra attention, Ed Mangan, the leagues field director for the Feb. 2 game, likened his job to an offensive linemans, in which anonymity is its own reward.

We set the stage for the players and thats our job; if you cant accept that, you shouldnt be doing it, Mangan said. The best compliment is that nobody mentions the field at all. If they are, it usually means something is wrong.

MetLife Stadium, home to the New York Giants and New York Jets, likely will make things easier for theNFLin one respect. It has an artificial playing surface, which means the league wont have to truck in specially-grown sod as in previous Super Bowls. The re-sodding of Super Bowl fields has become a science, with sod grown up to two years in advance at special farms. (For home lawn enthusiasts, theNFLuses a hybrid Bermuda grass as a base, overseeded with perennial rye grass, Mangan said).

Artificialturfcan be affected by snowy or icy conditions but is a big improvement over natural grass, according to Jets kicker Nick Folk.

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HARLAN (Nov. 4) -- If this was indeed the final game played on Merrill Fields real grass, Harlan Community picked a memorable win to send out the sod.

Avenging their last two gridiron defeats in one fell swoop, the 5th-ranked Cyclones never trailed in Monday nights Class 3-A, second-round playoff game and held off Carrolls fourth-quarter charge to beat the 8th-ranked Tigers, 21-18.

HCHS (10-1) converted two crucial third-and-two downs in running out the final 3:53, allowing quarterback Adam Juhl to take a knee at midfield and cap the programs 90th all-time playoff victory.

This one was extra special for 20 Cyclone seniors, who have taken their share of lumps vs. Carroll going all the way back to youth football games in fifth grade. The Tigers (8-3) handed HCHS its only loss this season and last year ended the Cyclones incredible run of 33 first-round playoff games without a loss.

I never thought of it that way, but yeah, it is [memorable], said HCHS head coach Curt Bladt. Thats the first time that (our) senior group - as a group - have ever beaten (Carroll), and most of the time they got their clocks cleaned so it was very satisfying, Im sure, for them to get the win.

Several Cyclone seniors did participate in last years regular-season win at Carroll, as well as a JV win in 2011, but this is the first time they have all been together on the same squad for a victory over the Tigers.

We all just agreed that it was time to put our foot down, said senior tailback Nate Gettys, who rushed for 122 yards and two touchdowns on 28 carries. This is the last time were ever going to play them so we all just said, Lets go all out and get the job done, and we did.

Its kind of just a weight lifted off our shoulders.

Senior Nate Cave, a two-way starter who logged 15 tackles, agreed that Mondays playoff win makes up for some of the previous losses to Carroll. Theyve been beating up on us since little league, he said, and to get the win when it really matters - it means the world to the whole team.

This was really good for us. We needed it.

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