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PennDOT will go ahead with this weekend's planned closure of the inbound Fort Pitt Tunnel despite a forecast of snow on Saturday.

The tunnel will close at 10 tonight and is not scheduled to reopen until 6 a.m. Monday as crews continue removing the tunnel ceiling. Traffic will detour through the West End.

Port Authority will open the Wabash Tunnel to inbound traffic as an alternate route from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The tunnel can be reached by exiting the Parkway West to Route 51 south and turning left at Woodruff Street.

PennDOT also plans to close the Parkway West in both directions between Interstate 79 and Green Tree on Monday night for installation of an overhead sign structure, weather permitting. The closure will begin at 10 p.m. and the highway will reopen by 6 a.m. Tuesday.

A full overnight closure also is possible on Tuesday night depending upon how the Monday work proceeds, spokesman Steve Cowan said.

Also planned to begin on Monday are overnight single-lane closures in the inbound Fort Pitt Tunnel, which will occur on weeknight through the end of the year. The restrictions will be in place from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.

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Voter approval needed for plan to finish hospital

Bond money for the Tehachapi Hospital construction in Capital Hills may run out in November, seven months before it's slated for completion, according to a project manager report.

And that's not the only thing facing the hospital.

Stacey Pray, the project manager retained by Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District, noted at the Feb. 12 district building and committee meeting that unless the hospital secures some additional funding, the hospital construction may not be finished.

Pray said at the Feb. 12 committee meeting that she plans to stop construction at $5 million for wind down and contractor retention purposes.

The project faces a $14.7 million projected shortfall, including construction and equipment. The district's board of directors decided in October to phase out the construction of the hospital. The exterior would be completed, along with emergency care, surgery center, radiology and the kitchen. Obstetrics, intensive care, the public dining and cafeteria and administration will remain shells.

That $14.7 million includes a fully equipped surgery center, which needs to be included in the scope per California Department of Public Health since TVHD had listed it as one of the services it could offer. Pray said the district could only partially equip the surgery suite, driving down costs.

The district has spent $37.9 million to date from approximately $66.7 million in bond revenue funding the construction.

The hospital has a $83 million price tag, including construction and equipment. Pray told committee members that had the district built out the entire hospital lock, stock and barrel, it would cost close to $92 million.

Eugene Suksi, the district's chief executive officer, said that while the district might run out of bond money, the district affiliation process may offer a reprieve.

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NEWMAN A $400,000 facelift for the L.J. Newman Memorial Building is well under way and on schedule for completion.

The project will provide a floor-to-ceiling renovation of the 1970s-era community center located on Orestimba Road at the northwest corner of the city.

Work on the renovation started several weeks ago and the contractor, Hilmar-based Harris Builders, is scheduled to be finished at the end of February, reported city staff members Stephanie Ocasio and Mike Maier, who spearheaded the project.

That will allow a month to take care of finishing touches and for the city to finish the aspects of the project that it is doing in-house, such as cleanup and landscape installation.

The renovation has shifted from demolition to reconstruction, Ocasio and Maier explained during a recent tour of the facility. Outside, the initial coat of stucco had been applied to the new facade with a color coat to follow.

Inside, tiles had been stripped from the floor to reveal the concrete beneath, restroom walls had been reconfigured, plumbing infrastructure is in place and the installation of new ceiling panels and lighting has started.

New windows have been installed around the upper reaches of the walls, and the vertical bricks which partially blocked the old windows were removed to provide more natural light inside. Broken window blocks have been replaced as well.

All the major demolition and infrastructure work is done, Ocasio and Maier stated.

The renovation will blend old and new, Ocasio explained.

The brick exterior, for example, will remain beneath the new stucco facade which replaces the wooden shingles that previously rimmed the building.

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A 40-foot tall reinforced, industrial-strength dome, new slab of concrete and extended tipping floor, are designed to accommodate commercial-grade dump trucks at San Juan Islands solid-waste facility.

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The transformation of the San Juan Island solid-waste facility reached a new plateau with the recent installation of an industrial-strength dome, a new slab of concrete below and a buttress of sizable concrete blocks, eight on each side of the 40-foot-wide tipping floor, which serve to anchor it all together.

While the height of the dome, roughly 40-feet from floor to ceiling, may be an eye-opener in itself, its just part of the plan.

And, the upgrade underway is actually ahead of schedule, according to Troy Lautenbach, co-owner of Lautenbach Enterprises, the Skagit County-based garbage, recycling and demolition company that assumed control of the Sutton Road site in early June.

We have 18 months to make the improvements required under our contract and agreement with the county, Lautenbach said, Weve accomplished what weve done so far in seven months. It all goes with turning whats been a drop-box facility back into a transfer station.

Which is what the town of Friday Harbor, as well as many other large-scale local haulers of trash and debris, has been waiting for.

The town, owner of the 26-acre former landfill on Sutton Road, opted a number of years ago to send its trash-haul trucks to the mainland, initially to avoid escalating prices at the solid-waste facility, run at that time by the county, a routine that persisted after the site was converted into a drop-box-only operation due, in part, to lingering problems of tainted stormwater run-off and the absence of a cover over the tipping floor.

Administrator Duncan Wilson foresees more efficient, cost-effective use of-town personnel and utility equipment once state and local health inspectors give a final okay on Lautenbachs improvements, operational plan and then issue the permit to operate the site as a transfer station.

If all goes according to plan, Troy Lautenbach said that final okay should soon be in place.

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