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A crew member with Mike Carlson Enterprises works on the Blair Avenue road construction project Aug. 27. Crews worked overtime to install sidewalks by the opening of the school year.

image credit: Journal photo / Dennis Box

The Blair Avenue district road construction project was in high gear last week as crews worked to complete sidewalks on the west side of the avenue before the opening of the school year.

The $1.4 million dollar project has been held up by a number of snags during the summer.

According to a press release sent by Mike Carlson, president of the construction company Mike Carlson Enterprises, the delays included, Our crews have had to uncover, remove and replace generations of both active and abandoned utility piping, conduits and wires often intermixed with roots, clay, rocks and other unsuitable materials. It is extremely difficult to predict how long it takes to do this type of work safely and without causing interruptions to other utility services. These conditions have adversely impacted our schedule in spite of the fact the project is otherwise going very smoothly.

Carlson stated in the release the curb and gutter work between Guard and Reed/Park Streets was completed Aug. 18.

Beginning Tuesday the crews will remove the existing road base with the, installation of asphalt Sept. 9 and 10 on the block between Guard and Reed/Park, Carlson wrote.

The block between Reed/Park and Spring Street had the road base demolished Aug. 18 with new lights, fiber optic vaults and conduits under the east sidewalk started Aug. 25. Curb and gutters will be installed the week of Sept. 8 and new road base Sept. 22. The asphalt base layer will be installed Sept. 2.

Due to complications in the placement of asphalt pavement during cooler weather we have decided to defer placing the final layer of pavement on this block until next spring as soon as warm weather conditions permit, Carlson wrote.

Carlson wrote because of the, inconvenience this project has caused the folks in our community who use this important section of road. We are all working overtime to deliver the project to the Town of Friday Harbor as quickly as we possibly can.

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Tom Glasgow, manager of the Tehachapi Municipal Airport, explains some of the improvements that may go into airport infrastructure.

The City of Tehachapi-owned airport has received initial seed money to go for what may turn out to be huge investment by the federal government.

City Manager Greg Garrett announced at the Aug. 18 City Council meeting that the city has been awarded a $190,380 federal grant for Tehachapi Municipal Airport -- a precursor to a much larger pot of money for reconstruction of the main taxiway.

Garrett said the full amount -- $2.29 million -- should be expected in 2016 from the Federal Aviation Administration, the federal government's top air safety watchdog. The $190,380 awarded to the city will kickstart the environmental assessment of the project in 2016.

According to Garrett, the full scope of the project will include the removal and relocation of the main taxiway, a new runway with improvements to its five connecting segments and run-up areas with striping and lighting, as well as installation of a 3,400 foot storm drain system with improvements to the existing water detention basin.

It's a large investment on the FAA's part, and one that's needed, said Tom Glasgow, manager of Tehachapi Municipal Airport.

"It's unheard of for a general aviation airport to receive more than $1 million from the FAA," Glasgow said.

The environmental phase is expected to take up to 18 months, and falls under the National Environmental Protection Act.

Glasgow said the airport will come under the scope from Fish and Game, Native American and a number of other examinations for things like noise and air pollution impacts to make sure the project can go fully forward.

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OAKLAND -- With his signature railroad cap, broom and dustpan, Michael Lydon is easy to spot on Piedmont Avenue, especially because he's one of the few people out and about when the sun is just rising and most shops are closed.

He's also the busiest, sweeping up cigarette butts, candy wrappers and any other piece of litter he comes across.

It's a job he has been doing -- without pay -- since 1979.

"You're out in the fresh air," the 69-year-old said as he swept a crushed paper cup from the gutter outside Fentons Creamery. "You're doing something positive. How could anyone not want to do this?"

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His walk, which can begin as early as 6 a.m., takes him up and down both sides of Piedmont Avenue, from Pleasant Valley Road to West MacArthur Boulevard. He empties his dustpan in the street's garbage cans along the route.

On a recent morning, the Rev. Tim Johnson, Catholic priest at the Church of Saint Leo the Great, was the first to greet Lydon. Johnson, carrying hand weights, was out for his morning exercise. Then a woman wearing earbuds said hello as she jogged past.

"She's trying to lose weight," Lydon whispered, before pausing outside Starbucks, where a customer inside had knocked on the coffee shop's window to get his attention.

"Hey there," Lydon said as he pointed at the man, waved and continued cleaning the street.

Litter accumulates more in some areas than others, Lydon said. Bus stops and benches are particularly bad, and some merchants never sweep the sidewalk outside their shops.

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This is indeed an old electric car charging, but it was taken in 1919, as the Library of Congress notes. The first tipoff is that the car is a Detroit Electric, which didn't start production until 1907. Here's the picture in full.

What's interesting is that there was electric car charging earlier in the 20th century, and even charging stations. General Electric showed off an 'electrant' (like an electric fire hydrant) for street charging in New York City all the way back in 1900, as a contemporary electrician's journal reports, and they kept making them at least through 1914.

The thing is, electric car charging around the turn of the century might look pretty modern in photographs, it was a much more involved process. Battery technology was way behind where we are now. Tons of corrosion needed regular cleaning and battery themselves could easily be overcharged. You'd have to get a custom-built control panel, as the excellent book Taking Charge: the Electric Automobile In America explains. Some early electric car buyers took the step of hiring their own electrician.

So yes, we did have electric car charging over a century ago, it just didn't look quite as it does in this picture.

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