Projects to resurface several state routes
Projects to resurface several state routes
SALEM — The Ohio Department of Transportation announced Tuesday that two projects will begin next Monday to resurface multiple state routes in Columbiana County.
About 11 miles of state Route 9 will be paved from the junction of U.S. Route 30 to Salem’s southern corporation limit. The cost is $2 million.
More than six miles of state Route 14 will be resurfaced from Columbiana city’s east corporation limit to the Pennsylvania state line.
Almost three miles of state Route 165 will be resurfaced from the Mahoning County line to state Route 14 at Unity. The cost is $2.1 million.
The contractor for both projects is The Shelly Company in Thornville, Ohio. The completion date for all the work is Aug. 31.
Trucks banned from part of Neal Street
NEW CASTLE, Pa. — Truck traffic, other than for local deliveries, is no longer allowed along a portion of Neal Street.
City council recently adopted a traffic rule that prohibits trucks in that area from Taylor to Division streets.
Council has also decided to install parking meters in the Riverside parking lot behind Lanigan’s Irish Pub.
POM Inc. of Russellville, Ark., will supply the meters for $20,377. People using the lot will be required to put money in the meters between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays. There will be no fee for parking in the lot at other times.
Work session set
CORTLAND — Lakeview Board of Education has set a work session for 7:30 p.m. today in the office of the superintendent. No formal action will be taken.
Soccer field plans
CANFIELD — Township trustees plan to scale back a plan to create soccer fields at a new Herbert Road park.
Randy Brashen, trustees chairman, said all of the bids submitted to do excavating, paving and landscaping work came in too high. The bids ranged from about $640,000 to $960,000. Brashen said he had hoped for bids of about $500,000.
He attributed the higher amount to the increase in gas prices. Trustee William Reese also said that paving is expensive. Paving of parking lots will be scaled back in favor of gravel, Reese said.
The township will re-advertise for bids for the work. Reese said he expects the soccer fields to be ready for play in 2009.
Rig smashes door on patrol car
AUSTINTOWN — A close call on Interstate 80 caused major damage to the door of an Ohio State Highway Patrol vehicle, but the trooper escaped without any serious injuries.
Trooper Kenneth Robbins, 41, of Salem, pulled his vehicle to the right side of a construction zone, just east of the Meander Reservoir, at 12:08 a.m. Tuesday because a man was walking on the highway, said OSHP Sgt. Bret Henderson. Robbins had his overhead lights flashing as he opened the door to get out and question the pedestrian, Henderson said. That’s when the rear portion of a tractor-trailer driven by Scott Metko, 39, of Menasha, Wis., hit the trooper’s door as the trucker tried to get into the left lane, Henderson said. Robbins had minor injuries.
The patrol ticketed Metko for “failure to move to the left upon approaching a stationary public safety vehicle displaying emergency lights,” Henderson said.
Henderson didn’t have any information about the pedestrian.
Fire destroys Pa. house
MERCER, Pa. — A fire destroyed a house at 1620 Mercer-Grove City Road.
The fire was reported shortly after 6 p.m. Tuesday. The house was being remodeled and essentially vacant when the fire was reported, according to the Mercer County 911 Center. The house is a total loss.
The cause of the fire isn’t known and the state fire marshal’s office was asked to investigate.