Board of control OKs $2.2 million in projects

YOUNGSTOWN

The city’s board of control authorized about $2.2 million in projects today to improve water and sewer lines, street paving and turning the former Kress Building site into a parking lot.

The most expensive project was $954,860 to Shelly & Sands Inc. of Akron to pave four streets — including Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard — and upgrade traffic signals at four intersections.

Also OK’d by the board is a $331,443 project to replace a waterline on Cherry Hill Avenue, and $379,180 to replace waterlines on three other streets.

For the complete story, read Friday’s Vindicator and Vindy.com