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Asheville City Council approves purchase of new ART buses with combination of federal, local funding
Three new buses will be added to the Asheville Rides Transit (ART) fleet, under action taken by Asheville City Council. At their December 14 meeting, Council approved a resolution to purchase three 30-foot Gillig diesel buses to replace buses in the fleet as they near their useful service life. During the last five years, the City of Asheville has purchased 16 transit buses to replace vehicles in the fleet that have met its useful service life. The buses purchased include five electric buses, seven hybrid-diesel buses, and four diesel buses. The three buses being purchased will also use diesel fuel. Included in this bus purchase are transit accessories and…
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Watercrest Myrtle Beach Assisted Living and Memory Care Honored for Outstanding Creative Landscape Design by the City of Myrtle Beach
The exterior landscaping of Watercrest Myrtle Beach boasts a PGA-worthy putting green with purposeful awnings for shade, and individual gardening stations to appeal to horticulturists and nature lovers alike. The illuminated walking paths are surrounded by lush lawns and interwoven amongst rock-scaped ponds and gorgeous arbors to create destinations and relaxing gathering spaces. “It’s a great honor to be recognized by the City of Myrtle Beach for the exceptional landscape design and aesthetics at our newly-constructed Watercrest Myrtle Beach community,” says Jeremy Cairns, Vice President of Construction Management for Watercrest Senior Living Group. “We are grateful to all of our partners for their hard work, particularly to Gregory Duckworth with…
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Fremont Brewing Is Still Using Concrete Blocks to Prevent RV Parking. So Are the City of Seattle and the US Postal Service.
Ecology blocks outside Seattle City Light’s substation in Ballard By Erica C. Barnett After at least one formal complaint, the Seattle Department of Transportation has issued a warning—but no penalty—to Fremont Brewing, the company co-owned by city council member-elect Sara Nelson, for obstructing the public right-of-way around its Ballard brewing facility with massive concrete “ecology blocks.” As PubliCola reported last summer, eco blocks—so called because they are a byproduct of concrete production that uses waste that would otherwise occupy landfills—are an inexpensive way for business owners to prevent people living in their vehicles from parking on the street next to their properties. Since the beginning of the pandemic, when the…
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Siloam Springs city board to hear budget amendment for pond guardrail and landscaping
Town directors will hear a spending budget amendment in the course of Tuesday’s assembly regarding the set up of a guardrail and landscaping together the Highway 412 gateway pond. Throughout the Sept. 7 board assembly, city staff members gave an update with regards to the addition of a guardrail all over the gateway pond intersection of Hwy 412 and East Principal Avenue as properly as installing landscaping (Spicata Liriope), in accordance to a employees report geared up by Metropolis Engineer Justin Bland on Oct. 8. If authorised, the guardrail will be put in by Time Striping Inc., Bland claimed in a comply with-up email. Installation would take place 4-8 weeks…
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Mason City artist turning buildings into beautiful canvases
MASON City, Iowa – Driving by Downtown, you may perhaps observe some buildings are having an elaborate fresh coat of paint. Just one area artist influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright is portray murals on some obvious properties in the River Town. Zoie Papouchis is a scholar of art. “Considering that I was younger, I’ve often admired large artwork on buildings.” Already an avid painter, she was driving past a mural 1 time, when she observed a person portray a mural and was instantly hooked. She contacted the Mason Town Chamber of Commerce, who runs the ‘Building Our Brand’ program of murals. However painting a huge wall was different than the…
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