Steve Brown of Lake City took this photo looking almost straight down into a crater-like hole at the corner of Lakeshore Drive and Marion Street where workers were placing utilities this week. Brown has flown his drone since the beginning of the project to track its progress from above.
At the weekly Highway 61 reconstruction project progress report Tuesday, Dick Swenke, Rochester Sand and Gravel’s public information coordinator, provided an update on the work that took place last week and what’s coming in the week ahead.
On the north end of the project between Central Point Road...
Cinco de Mayo was on Tuesday.
It’s the annual celebration of the Mexican army’s victory over the French Empire in the Battle of Puebla. The appearance of a Mexican food trailer in Patton Park on that day was fitting, if coincidental.
But it is something of a victory for the owners of Fiesta...
With road construction taking place along two stretches of Highway 61 in Lake City, officials have fielded complaints of inadequate signage and extra traffic on city streets from drivers short-cutting the marked detours.
Traffic increased along North High Street and South Oak Street, including...