By NATE ELLIS Wednesday November 19, 2014 11:24 AM

Upper Arlington officials are ready to update residents and other stakeholders on their plans to begin rebuilding Tremont Road in 2015.

The plan for the first major rebuild of Tremont Road since 1956 could include a partial water line replacement, street lighting improvements, bicycle accommodations and pedestrian safety features.

The latest updates on the project, including projected start and finish dates, will be detailed during a meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, at the Upper Arlington Municipal Services Center, 3600 Tremont Road.

Although the project has been discussed publicly on occasion since July, Thursday's meeting will offer the public opportunities to hear about the city's plans and provide feedback on potential bike features and the preferred colors -- black or green -- of light poles and traffic-signal mast arms along one of Upper Arlington's main roadways.

"Tremont Road has not been reconstructed since 1956 and has deteriorated to the point that it needs reconstructed," City Engineer Jackie Thiel said. "The corridor is not pedestrian- or bicycle-friendly and does not meet ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) or community standards.

"Upper Arlington is using the project to make Tremont Road a multimodal project to improve safety and access for pedestrians, bicyclists, transit users and vehicles."

If all design elements being considered are implemented, the reconstruction is expected to cost approximately $8.2 million.

However, the city hopes to offset as much as $5.37 million of that with an Ohio Public Works Commission (OPWC) grant.

The city applied for the grant earlier this year and expects to hear next month how much, if any, in OPWC funds it will receive.

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After 70 years Mantecas Jimmie Connors Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6311 is going to finally have a home.

The City Council Tuesday night approved a $1,160,000 design and build contract with Diede Construction to build the 3,600-square-foot Moffat Community Center that will serve as the posts home at 560 Moffat Boulevard.

The completion date is July 3, 2015 to allow for a Fourth of July dedication. A ground breaking is tentatively set for Monday, Dec. 1, at 3 p.m.

For 70 years weve never had a home of our own, VFW Commander Carlon Perry told the council.

The post has been using the American Legion Post in the 200 block of East Yosemite Avenue.

Perry noted that it means veterans will be able to go to one location for everything from health services to socializing.

For what you (the veterans) did, you deserve it, Councilwoman Debby Moorhead said.

The center will be built on city-owned land sandwiched between the arsenic treatment plant built last year and the storm retention basin/mini park that are across the street from the trailer park adjacent to the Manteca High athletic fields. The new home of the VFW post will back up to the Tidewater Bikeway.

The work includes the building, a parking lot and some landscaping. The balance of the property will be landscaped at a future date.

The city has entered into a 20-year lease with Jimmie Connors VFW Post 6311 for use of the Moffat Community Center. The lease notes the structure will be a public building. It will be available for rent by the public when it is not being used for its primary purpose of serving veterans groups and veterans events.

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Resurfacing of Center Street in Grayslake and the second stage of Peterson Road reconstruction are slated to move forward in the next construction season after the Lake County Board approved funding for the projects last week.

Center Street, a 1.4-mile stretch between Routes 45 and 83, part of which runs past the former Lake County Fairgrounds, will be resurfaced with paved shoulders in areas without curb and gutter. With the $2.23 million appropriation, approved by the board at its Nov. 11 meeting, the project is now cleared to head out for bids.

Grayslake is also eyeing Center Street for improvements east of the villages business district, with a resurfacing project from Route 83 to the Canadian National Railway tracks now in the design phase.

The board also approved a total of $22.8 million in appropriations including $16.2 million from the countys quarter-percent sales tax for transportation improvements for the ongoing widening of Peterson Road near Libertyville and Grayslake.

Work began earlier this year on a widening of Peterson from Route 45 to a point just west of Route 83, a project that includes intersection improvements at not only Route 83 but Midlothian Road. The funds approved last week are projected to cover the reconstruction and widening of Peterson from Route 83 to Allegheny Road.

The scope of that second phase also includes installation of a bike path on the north side of Peterson and resurfacing of nearly the entire length of Allegheny a 2.2 mile stretch from Peterson north to Hojem Lane, near Belvidere Road. As with the Center Street project, the Peterson project is now set to take bids.

In other transportation business at its Nov. 11 meeting, the board approved the following measures:

Appropriation of $1.8 million for the reconstruction and widening of Petite Lake Road from Fairfield Road to Route 59 near Lake Villa.

Appropriation of $295,000 in county transportation sales-tax funds to improve Metras Grayslake North Central station platform in preparation for the Washington Street underpass project just to the south. That overall $35 million project, which includes widening of Washington to four lanes west of Lake Street, is scheduled to start next spring and continue for two full construction seasons.

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Brotherhood its what ties the Adams family together, or more accurately, brotherhood, music and their faith in God.

The Adams brothers, Matt, Taylor and Tristan grew up in Alberta Beach playing music together at home and in church and look forward to the upcoming release of their first album, The Journey.

With a rock sound, the Adams Christian band, West of Here, penned more than 20 songs in preparation for their first album and after narrowing it down to half as many tracks, released their first single in October.

Theyre not all one certain style so you wont get bored going through the whole album, Matt said, describing the tracks as having a pop, rock and southern rock sound.

The whole album is somewhat akin to the journey of life.

Hence the title.

And despite the bands relatively new radio play, West of Here received two 2014 Covenant Award nominations, which are presented annually as part of the GMA Canada Week.

With award nominations for Rock Song of the Year and Rock Album of the Year, West of Here headed to B.C. to take part in the 36th annual Covenant Award ceremony, held on Thursday, Nov. 13.

Were extremely excited... I think theyre happy to promote good new music, Matt said of the GMAs.

But getting this far hasnt been without its challenges, which have ranged from time management, funding and sourcing musicians that will support their sound, he said.

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Theyre affectionately called the ski ramps two oddly designed points of ingress and egress on the north side of the Sherman Commons shopping center. And for retailers on both sides of Loy Lake Road bridge, the ski ramps are the final piece of the puzzle in restoring full functionality for drivers as ongoing construction at the location grinds on into its ninth month.

Right now, anybody north and south can get to (the Town Center) side, and you can go from the east side to the west side, but you cant go from the west side to the east side, JCPenny Store Manager Barger Tygart said. But Im pretty sure that before the Black Friday weekend, that it will be open to where cars can go back and forth.

Tygart was one of a hand full of Sherman business owners and managers who attended an informal, informational meeting hosted by the Texas Department of Transportation near the construction zone Friday morning. TxDOT was the bearer of good news for Tygart and others during the gathering, as the organization announced it hopes to reopen the ski ramps and reestablish the flow of traffic as early as next week.

We added an extra phase to (utilize) these old ramps to give temporary access during the holiday season to these developments over here, said TxDOT Area Engineer Aaron Bloom, speaking from a business in Sherman Commons. So were going to work the frontage road up to where the concrete ends, just right past the intersection, and then well keep working on Loy Lake, trying to get that built.

The ski ramps are being reopened thanks to a $52,000 change order financed by United Commercial Realty, the Dallas-based company that owns and leases Sherman Commons. The downside of the modification in construction plans, however, will be a slight lengthening of the overall timetable for the project, said Bloom.

In the original plans, we were going to work all the frontage road together, but now were breaking it up into two pieces, so that adds some more time to the project.

Even still, the $5.6 million construction effort is running only slightly behind schedule up to this point, said Ragle Construction Project Manager Jason Stultz. Ragle crews are currently working to raise the intersection several feet on the east side of the bridge, which will provide a new, modernized entrance into Sherman Commons and eventually do away with the ski ramps for good.

The weathers put a couple of dampers on it, but its gone pretty smooth so far, said Stultz.

TxDOT officials said theyre targeting a final completion date of early spring for the project, which will double the bridges capacity to six lanes. The new portion of the bridge, on which crews worked Friday installing a concrete guard rail, will hopefully open to traffic sometime in March or April, said Bloom.

Work on the northbound frontage road will continue into January, according to a handout provided by TxDOT, after which a new traffic signal will be installed on the east side of the bridge. From there, Phase 4 of the project will begin, the focus of which will be on the west side of the bridge. A portion of Loy Lake Road will be closed during this phase, though only the small portion of the street in front of Chipotle Mexican Grill. Life for drives will remain relatively unchanged, however, as the turn-around will temporarily function as a two-way roadway, providing all-direction access for drivers.

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Alderman Ian Luder, Lord Mayor of London in 2008-9, has been elected foreman of the Guildable Manor of Southwark.

He succeeds former BBC International Mastermind champion Leslie Grout.

The installation on Wednesday afternoon was immediately followed by a sitting of the Guildable Manor court leet at St George the Martyr Church in Borough High Street.

This was the first time that court of Guildable Manor, covering the Borough Market area, has been convened at the church.

But it was the last to be presided over by Southwark High Steward Brian Barker who retires next spring as Recorder of London.

The jurors presented the retiring High Steward with a copy of Southwark and the City by David Johnson.

Judge Nicholas Hilliard, who has been appointed the next Recorder of London, is expected to be confirmed as High Steward shortly before Easter.

Since 1804 it has been the convention for the Recorder to also take on the role of Southwark's High Steward at the invitation of the City of London's Aldermanic Court.

In 2003 Judge Hilliard, at present Common Serjeant of London, was prosecuting barrister in the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? coughing major trial at Southwark Crown Court.

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MARTINEZ, Calif. The Martinez City Council will meet Wednesday, Nov 3.

According to the agenda, Alan Shear, assistant city manager, will present the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) for the 2014 fiscal year that ended June 30. The General Fund ended at June 30, 2014, with an unassigned fund balance of $5,720,878.

Also, the council will vote on a motion to appoint Shear as acting city manager until a permanent city manager has been hired.

Since July 28, Jim Jakel has been serving as interim city manager. On Nov. 15, Jakels service in that role will end and Jakel will remain available to the city on an hourly basis to assist on complex and time-sensitive projects.

Shear has served as assistant city manager since 2010 and has acted as city manager a number of times in the past. A new city manager is expected to be hired in the first quarter of 2015.

Among the presentations on the agenda are a proclamation that Nov. 25 will be Joe DiMaggios 100th Year Birthday Celebration, a presentation by Central Contra Costa Sanitary District and Rising Sun Energy Center recap of the 2014 California Youth Energy Services Program.

Also on the agenda is hiring a contractor for two sidewalk projects in the city.

The Alhambra Valley Road Sidewalk Project will install 400 feet of 5-foot wide sidewalk behind an existing curb along John Swett Elementary School frontage from the school driveway north to Gilbert Court and curb ramps at Gilbert Court. Currently there exists a non ADA compliant gravel path. The path is difficult to maneuver strollers and wheel chairs during dry weather. The path is nearly impossible to navigate after rain events. Completing this segment will provide continuous ADA compliant access between John Swett Elementary School and Alhambra Avenue. Current funding includes a Transportation for Livable Communities (TLC) grant and CCTA Measure J monies.

The Shell Avenue Pedestrian Improvement Project will reduce the potential for conflicts between motor vehicles and children walking to school. The project is along the southern side of Shell Avenue and would consist of demolition of existing improvements and the installation of curb gutter and sidewalk. The sidewalk will extend from Pine Street westerly approximately 700 feet. There is currently no sidewalk on the proposed section of Shell Avenue and there are no suitable alternative routes for children to avoid walking along this busy street. Most of the project area has no road shoulder and has obstacles such as steep slopes, landscape rocks, mailboxes, trash cans, and parked cars that force children to walk in the street where they are exposed to fast moving traffic. Existing sidewalk joins both ends of the proposed project area.

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