Archive for: October 2008

The Washington County Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved a RUSS application at the USDA Rural Development for funds to install a sanitary sewer system in the unincorporated town of Rubio.
Estimated total cost for the project is $312,000 with 75 percent …

by Ranee Fladung
The Highland Board of Education took a step forward Monday by accepting a proposal from the Iowa Construction Advocate team (ICAT) to help coordinate and oversee renovations to the middle/high school building.
Earlier this year, the proposed project had an estimated cost of $3.5 million. It included adding several new classrooms, a computer lab, new media center, storage and wrestling room as well as defined entrances for each school and the administration offices.

By Mary Zielinski
Stating he wanted “no action today,”
Washington County Engineer Dave Patterson “No one policy change will rectify the challenges facing the gravel roads in Washington County. There is no magic bullet,” Tuesday detailed 13 options for the supervisors for dealing with the deteriorating rural road system. It was the final of three reports on the rural road problem to the board.
But no matter what gets done, the county is looking at maintenance costs that exceed resources by more than $1 million annually.
“No one policy change will rectify the challenges facing the gravel roads in Washington County. There is no magic bullet,” said Patterson.
In fact, bringing the unpaved roads (some 661 miles of them) to a sustainable condition not only will take about $9.8 million in repair costs now but also need more than $1 million per year to keep them in that condition.

Serious remodeling work will be underway Thursday and Friday at Three Chicks Publications, LLC which means the office for The Wellman Advance and The Riverside Current may be closed.
Plans include replacing the exterior siding (which has slowly been falling off) …