• Landscaping

    Council awards $731K in contracts to landscaping business | Local News

    The City Council recently voted to sign off on awarding a trio of three-year public grounds maintenance contracts totaling $731,226 to a local landscaping and lawn care business. Precision Cut is now authorized to maintain the grounds of 11 facilities or locations for $496,785, the Battleboro and Northeastern cemeteries for $131,589 and four low-lying areas or areas with boat ramps or water for $102,852. The vote occurred during the Oct. 25 City Council regular meeting. The action also came in the context of extensive discussion having occurred during the Oct. 11 council work session about wanting the Parks and Recreation Department to be able to do more in terms of…

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  • Landscaping

    Shiloh Place receives award from Keep Fremont Beautiful for new landscaping | Local News

    COLLIN SPILINEK Fremont Tribune The idea to expand Shiloh Place came almost suddenly to Cyndi Whitten. “We only had 16 beds in this, and I thought, ‘You know, we have all of this land, and I could put beds there,’” she said. “So one day just on a whim, we just called a contractor and voila, we doubled our size.” With the addition to the assisted living center at 915 N. H St. now completed, Shiloh Place has received recognition from Keep Fremont Beautiful with its Clean Sweep Award. “We are honored to have gotten it, and we really receive it with humility and gratitude from the community and on…

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  • New Art

    New art gallery brings opportunity for artists, art lovers | Local News

    OSKALOOSA — Artists in Mahaska County and beyond now have the opportunity to showcase their work at the newly-opened Envision Art Gallery. Located in Penn Central Mall, the gallery has something for every price point, from $5 prints to $1,000 paintings and everything in between. Owner Vera Babich decided to open the gallery after noticing a high concentration of artists and art lovers in the area. “It is a very artistically rich and diverse community,” she said. “Since we moved here in 2009, we’ve met so many talented people and seen so much beautiful art done by them.” SEGUE “We needed a place where people can come any time and…

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    Municipal landscaping contract scrutinized | Local News

    A new Town Council operate session provided approximately an hour of dialogue about contacting for the administration to bring back for long term discussion a proposal concentrating on acquiring the Parks and Recreation Office be able to do more in terms of servicing of community grounds in Rocky Mount. In the meantime, City Supervisor Rochelle Little-Toney is generating apparent her system is during Monday’s council assembly to ask the council to approve a a few-12 months contract for the Precision Minimize landscaping and lawn services to be in a position to proceed to support with landscape upkeep. Little-Toney mentioned the contract would include things like wording supplying the capacity to…

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  • Natural Landscape

    Interpretive trail explores landscape, Abenaki history | Local News

    BRATTLEBORO — A new interpretive path alongside the West River tells company about the normal landscape and the Abenaki names for things. Nearby forester and author Lynn Levine spearheaded the challenge on the Riverstone Preserve, land bought by Friends of the West River Path for $80,000 from David Bradford in 2013. The Sibosen Trail uses the Abenaki term for river stone. “My mission has been to link all men and women with the forest,” Levine stated final thirty day period through a ceremony celebrating the interpretive path. “Once we obtained the grant, my operate begun.” The Brattleboro Conservation Fee been given funding from the Vermont Association of Conservation Fee to…

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  • Landscaping

    Danger Awareness: Common Work Injuries in Landscaping | Local News I Racine County Eye

    &#13 &#13 &#13 &#13 &#13 The landscaping business is one particular that we see in motion every day. Whether it is on massive commercial properties or household land, these experts get the job done tricky to ensure that every single plant and blade of grass is in its appropriate put. Nonetheless, for those working in this subject, these careers can existing a sequence of unique protection hazards, and a lot of gurus will expertise some style of injury during their profession. If you’re looking to do the job in this business, you should really know about some of the most popular do the job injuries in landscaping. Cuts and Reduction…

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