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Work begins on Clayton Park
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NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ
IHOP anyone? What’s coming to the prominent site on Maynardville Highway that most recently housed Carson’ Restaurant? Joseph Construction is onsite, moving dirt, and speculation is that the International House of Pancakes is on its way to Halls. No one will confirm this, but we feel confident enough to publish the logo and say, “Welcome!” And now we’ll sit quietly and wait for the sign. – S. Clark
Meet Dr. Goins Residents are invited to meet Central High School’s new principal, Dr. Jody Goins, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 6, at the CHS library. The event is sponsored by the Central High School Alumni Association, the Fountain City Business and Professional Association, and Work Now. Dr. Goins was previously the principal at Oak Ridge High School.
Bulb sale this week Knoxville Green’s Holland bulb and bare-root fruit plant sale and giveaway will be 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 3-4, at Windsor Square, Suite 290, at Kingston Pike and N. Seven Oaks Drive, west of Cedar Bluff Road and adjacent to Bailey’s Sports Grille. Each person, including children, will be given free bulbs. Varieties of bulbs and fruit plants such as raspberry will be available for purchase. Proceeds will be used to plant additional daffodils along Pellissippi Parkway and for beautification projects of Knoxville Green, founded by the late Maria Compere. Compere oversaw the planting of two million daffodils on the Pellissippi Parkway, including 60,000 planted in 2012 near the Dutchtown Road and Northshore Drive exits.
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Construction has begun on Clayton Park Photo by Ruth White
By Jake Mabe Work has begun at the Clayton Park site on Norris Freeway in Halls. “We are starting the project in earnest,” says Knox County parks and recreation director Doug Bataille. Shelton Construction has been contracted to perform the grading work, but has been slowed somewhat by the unusually high
planting some more trees as well.” After grading is completed, Knox County Parks and Recreation and Knox County Public Works will build a stone pad, a picnic shelter and restrooms, as well as the entrance road, parking spaces and a small walking trail loop. “We worked with TDOT to get the permits and alignment (for the entrance). It was a matter of moving dirt in the right place.”
Bataille says a greenway connector will be built later as well. The park’s construction budget, funded in large part by a state grant and matching funds and labor from the county, is roughly $300,000. “It’s a tight budget and we’re trying to stretch the money as far as we can,” Bataille says. “Be patient with us. We’re pedaling as fast as we can.”
Constructing on 33 bridge Starts in August
By Marvin West Different bridge builders are coming to Union County. Very heavy equipment is supposedly en route. Soon construction will resume on the Highway 33 bridge over Norris Lake. So says Mark Nagi of the Tennessee Department of Transportation. The original $20-million project, announced by local politicians on Sept. 11, 2009, became a construction disaster two and a half years later when engineers belatedly discovered flaws in the bedrock. Everything stopped for a redesign of bridge footings. The 2000-feet bridge, once deemed a tragedy waiting to happen, is a really big deal, the most exciting part of the primary route from Middlesboro, Harrogate, Claiborne County and Sharps Chapel to Maynardville and Knoxville. It is heavily traveled. Kay and Kay Contracting of London, Ky., won the revised project in February with a bid of $18,310,000. The company is about to begin to start to do something. “The contractor is in the process of mobilizing a great amount of
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amount of rain this year. Bataille says the removal of several trees on the property is part of the grading work. “A lot of the trees lined the old driveway, which is going to have to go from one to two lanes, so any trees overhanging the driveway had to be removed. The big oak tree will remain. It’s in good shape, so we shifted some things to build around it. And we will be
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equipment to the site to begin work on the drilled shafts,” said Nagi. “The drilling should begin by the first of August and if all goes according to schedule, drilling operations should be completed by the end of the year.” Target date for completion of the new bridge is Aug. 31, 2014. Sometime after that, the old bridge will be removed. ed d. in It was built in 1936 in os-preparation for TVA closing the gates on Norris rriis Dam to flood the Clinch nch h River basin. Replacing that o old ld d bridge had long been o on n the state drawing board. rd. d. Britton Bridge and Mountain States Conontractors won that project, ect, graded new highway approaches and built four our giant pillars. They have stood since 2012 as silent sentinels to the change in plans. The state says Britton and Mountain States were paid and relieved of their obligations. Different conditions required different plans and construction methods. Kay and Kay has done rockslide repairs for TDOT and is currently building an I-75 interchange in Kentucky.
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Analysis “I live in Halls on Emory Road and we kayak up and down Beaver Creek all the time. We live just down from the locally famous Blue Hole. We have been downstream from our home to almost I-75, an approximate distance of 3-4 miles. Beaver Creek at Hwy. 33 looks small and “We have only been upstream about a mile. muddy. This is the creek we see from the To page A7 highway. Photo by Ruth White
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