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Highway paving set to start next week
ITD still projecting September finish date for road work
By TERRY SMITH Express Staff Writer
Paving is expected to start the week of July 28 on the northbound lanes of the state Highway 75 construction project south of Ketchum. The two southbound lanes were finished earlier this summer and are now being used to move traffic, northbound and southbound, through the 3.25-mile construction zone. In a construction update issued Wednesday, the Idaho Transportation Department explained that roadway preparation is nearly complete for paving, but that actual paving wont start until an asphalt test strip is applied and deemed acceptable by ITD. ITD is still projecting that the project will be completed by the end of September. Construction activities impacting traffic are anticipated to be finished by mid-September. The project, started in 2013, involves widening Highway 75 from Timber Way just north of East Fork Road to the bridge over the Big Wood River near St. Lukes Wood River hospital. When finished, the section of highway will have two lanes in each direction and center turning lanes and deceleration lanes at major intersections. ITD further reported in the construction update that:
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The city of Washington has been deeded more than 67 acres of land west of Grand Avenue to be maintained forever as a nature reserve.
The donation likely is the largest gift of land ever made to the city of Washington.
Officials have said they arent aware of any city the size of Washington that has such a large nature reserve.
City council members voted Monday night to accept a special warranty deed for the property from Miller-Post Property LLC.
The property will be called the Miller-Post Nature Reserve and be used for the purpose of retaining and maintaining land and water areas in their natural vegetative, scenic, open or woodland condition and to retain such areas as suitable habitat for fish, plants or wildlife, according to the deed restrictions.
Jacqueline D. Miller, manager of Miller-Post Property LLC, told the council that the seed for this decision was planted over 50 years ago.
Basically, we are the stewards of this gift of nature from God. It is up to us to take care of it and to nurture it, she remarked in addressing the council.
Miller said she, her late husband Dr. Frank Miller, and her late father, Dr. John Post, always wanted to keep the land in the natural state as a refuge for wildlife. Basically, that is what it is today.
She said other ideas for using the property were suggested but she rejected the idea of developing the land.
Miller said an article in The Missourian regarding tree restoration in the parks department started the thought process toward the idea of a nature reserve set aside to educate, acquaint our young people with nature and its marvelous attributes, learn about plants and animals.
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The following road projects are planned for this week by the Midland County Road Commission and City of Midland Engineering Department:
City of Midland
East Ashman Street Westbound Ashman closed from Cambridge to Swede. One-way traffic only for eastbound Ashman. Detour posted.
Washington Street Southbound Washington closed from Eastlawn to Ashman. One-way traffic only for northbound Washington. Detour posted.
Currie Parkway Bridge Closed for deck repairs and repainting of the bridge.
Partridge Lane Street reconstruction from Wackerly Street to Woodbridge Street. Closed to through traffic.
Wallen Street Street reconstruction and water main replacement from Lancaster Street to Kentwood Street. Closed to through traffic.
Rockwell Drive Southbound Rockwell closed with detour for the installation of a storm sewer to enclose roadside ditch from Kiesel to Patrick.
Elgin and Noeske streets Closed to traffic for replacement of water main on Elgin from Adelaide Street to Noeske and on Noeske from Elgin to Baker Street, as well as curb and gutter replacement, drainage structure repairs and street paving.
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Road work planned this week in Midland, Midland County
LOWELL -- The city has announced upcoming road closings and construction work, according to Henri Marchand, assistant to the city manager. All work is subject to weather conditions. Information provided by project managers:
ACRE: Broadway Street bridge -- conversion to one way. Due to reduced weight limits, Boott Hydropower Inc. has installed a one-way detour, diverting traffic coming into downtown around the bridge via Walker Street to Pevey Street to School Street.
Due to the need for more extensive work than originally anticipated, repair is not expected to be done until 2015 and the one-way pattern will remain in effect until then. For questions/comments, contact Lowell@Enel.com
South Campus -- Broadway/Pawtucket Street intersection. Starting July 21, installation of construction signage, contractor mobilization, pavement sawcutting and removal of existing trees on Pawtucket Street.
DOWNTOWN: Middlesex Street sidewalk reconstruction work from Central Street to the Lord Overpass. Paving to be done at-night, 8 p.m. to 5 a.m., beginning July 20;
* Sewer main work on Middlesex Street, Canal to Central Streets. Completion is expected Monday. Two-way traffic conversion is expected to take place in mid-August, however, work is ongoing with signal-post foundation, curb, sidewalk and ramp work.
* Excavation, utility work and paving at the following intersections: Dutton-Arcand; Merrimack-Shattuck; Merrimack-Palmer; Merrimack-Central; Merrimack-Prescott; Prescott-Central-Market; Market-Palmer; Shattuck-Market.
HIGHLANDS/SACRED HEART/BACK CENTRAL: Connector lights -- MassDOT is replacing 89 streetlights throughout the Route 3/Interstate 495/Lowell Connector area. Completion is expected this summer.
HIGHLANDS: Westford Street from Chelmsford to School Street.
* Paving nights, 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. beginning July 20, Wood Street from Westford to Middlesex Street.
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Lowell announces upcoming road closings, construction work
Back in May, the Edwardsville City Council approved the reconstruction of Grand Avenue, but a change order for the project is now needed, as remnants of Old Poag Road were found.
Public Works Director Eric Williams explained that while crews were excavating within the roadway, they encountered some concrete pavement underneath the roadway on the city's section and the township's section of the project.
While completing the design portion of the project for the storm sewer, cores were done and no pavement was found. Williams said those areas already had the concrete removed from previous work.
"What we are removing are sections of concrete that were not previously removed. The concrete is in conflict with the proposed improvements, so we do have to move it," Williams said.
With the concrete in place, proper grade could not be made.
The concrete was found on a section of Rose Avenue and it is believed to be part of Old Poag Road.
The change order to Kamadulski Excavating and Grading Co. is for $15,675.
According to the change order, 1,000 square feet of concrete will be removed on Rose and Grand Avenues. In addition, five working days will be added to the contract, extending total length of the contract from 75 days to 80 days.
A motion and second were made and the contract was approved unanimously.
Meanwhile, the council also approved eight contracts for materials needed by the Public Works Department for the completion of asphalt patching, sidewalk repairs, pothole patching and other work.
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Old roadway throws city a curve
DIXON Next week marks the 10th week of the downtown streetscape project.
For the first time since the start of the project, both lanes of traffic on First Street, between Hennepin and Galena avenues, will be open to traffic, but temporary closures will soon be needed for landscaping and sidewalk work near Galena Avenue.
Click here for a map of the streetscape work and closed roads in Dixon.
According to the engineering companies:
The south side of First Street, between Galena and Ottawa avenues, will be closed for water main installation. The north side might be closed temporarily for work, but access toFifth Third Bank will remain open.
On First Street, between Ottawa and Crawford avenues, work is expected to include curb and gutter and sidewalk installation.
Work on the sidewalks on Peoria Avenue, between First and Third streets, is expected to be substantially completed, with the exception of the area in front of the Telegraph building.(The entrance to the office, for now, then, is in the alley between the Telegraph and C&N Supply.)
On Peoria Avenue, between First and Second streets, expected work for the week includes pouring parking lane pavement on the east side, electrical installations, and building vault work at the Telegraph office.
Water service connectionsare planned for First Street, between Peoria and Hennepin avenues, which will require temporary service interruptions that the engineering firm said will be coordinated with property owners.
The south side of the street will remain closed and the north side of the street will be temporally closed at times for some water service work, according to information from the engineering companies.
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Fire officials are warning of a possible danger in millions of homes. The warning comes after lightning struck a home in Blacklick and hit a small gas tube. Those tubes are found in homes across central Ohio.
"You could see the lightning bolts hitting," says Jeff Payette. Within seconds, he says, the initial crack of thunder sounded like a bomb going off." He saysthree bolts hit his home.
Payette and the fire department believe the lighting traveled across his gutter line, knocking out the water meter before hitting his gas meter, sending a bolt of electricity through a yellow gas tube known as CSST or corrugated stainless steel tubing.
"Absolutely I don't want this piping in my house", says Payette. He says Columbia Gas told him a hole in the gas line was caused by the volts from the lightning strike, which caused gas to fill his basement.
"As soon as I checked the basement, I heard the hissing noise and the smell was sickening", he says. His wife feared, had this happened while they were at work, their children may have walked into a home ready to explode.
"Had they opened the basement door and flipped a switch, we would have had a real tragedy on our hands", said Payettes wife, Julie.
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Edgar Allan Poe comes to life in 'A Dream Within a Dream.' (Courtesy Nasreen Alkhateeb)
WASHINGTON -- Edgar Allan Poe's lifeless body has been found in a gutter, yet signs of the reclusive writer surface all over Baltimore. A team of muckraking journalists sift through the clues to find out what happened to him.
Welcome to "A Dream Within a Dream," an "immersive, transmedia production" that invites audience members to become part of the plot.
"We turn the story on its head," says co-writer, director and producer Nasreen Alkhateeb.
"It's not necessarily theater, film, dance or performance art. It's all of the above."
There is no stage and there are no seats. Instead, audience members walk through different scenes from Poe's collection and meet a cast of twisted and tragic characters.
Familiar stories include "The Raven," "The Pit and the Pendulum" and "The Fall of the House of Usher." Poe enthusiasts also have a chance to dive into more obscure poems such as "The Oval Portrait."
Each vignette in "A Dream Within a Dream" offers a clue as to how Poe might have died. Was he killed by a rival writer or a jealous lover?
History has never quite answered that question. Poe died in 1849 in Baltimore's Washington College Hospital after having disappeared for several days. Theories about the exact cause of death include excessive drinking, rabies, heart failure and murder. But details of his final days remain sketchy at best, and Poe's death will remain one of literature's greatest unsolved mysteries.
"A Dream Within a Dream," titled after a poem of the same name, uses that as its premise to immerse the audience in Poe's macabre world.
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