New Enterprise News

A large tree came crashing down across Menoher Boulevard near Haynes Street Monday night, knocking out power to lower Kernville and destroying a billboard, the Johnstown Fire Department said.

Representatives from the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission met with Redstone Township residents Tuesday to discuss the next phase of the Mon/Fayette Expressway.

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Burrell Township's supervisors have found themselves between a rock and a hard place due to soaring costs for obtaining the stone they need for road maintenance. via PittsburghLIVE.com

A 16-year-old New Enterprise boy was fatally injured Sunday when he fell from the back of a go-cart and struck his head on the roadway, Pennsylvania State Police said. via Cumberland Times-News

The Warren-Forest Counties Economic Opportunity Council and Warren Public Library will present several financial literacy programs this month. via Times Observer

“This investment will help stimulate economic development, while also preserving and improving the commonwealth's rail system.”

Gov. Edward G. Rendell announced the investment of $10.2 million in rail freight infrastructure in an effort to help create and maintain jobs at expanding businesses throughout the commonwealth. via GantDaily.com

Although wintry weather lingers on, the Wetmore Township Board of Supervisors is making plans for summer road projects. via The Kane Republican

Water Level Road near New Enterprise is closed because of a fatal two-vehicle accident. via The Daily American

“We'll open those lanes as early as we can.”

PATTON TOWNSHIP -- Interstate 99 between Bald Eagle and Skytop will not open as expected by Tuesday because signs for the temporary roadway and ramp at the Skytop section still need to be produced and installed, the state Department of Transportation said Friday.

PennDOT said it has set a new target date between Dec. 12 and Dec. 19 to open the northbound lanes of I-99 from Bald Eagle to Skytop and the southbound lanes from Port Matilda to Bald Eagle.

Marla Fannin, PennDOT spokeswoman, said the nine-mile I-99 section between Bald Eagle and Port Matilda under contract to New Enterprise Stone & Lime is expected to be completed by the Dec. 4 contract date. Read more

“We ought to be in pretty good shape for the opening next month.”

PATTON TOWNSHIP -- State officials said Thursday they're on target to open most of Interstate 99 by Dec. 4 and that there's plenty of space left at the acid rock disposal site to take the rocks that remain to be moved.

'We're at the point where we're ready to go with the last stockpile of material,' Ben LaParne, assistant PennDOT district engineer for construction, told environmental regulators and other state officials during their regular biweekly meeting.

HRI Inc., of State College, general contractor of I-99's Skytop section, has completed construction of a temporary roadway that will link already paved sections of I-99 with U.S. Route 322 just east of the Skytop crest. Read more

A man was injured Monday when the tractor-trailer he was driving overturned on Route 15 in Cumberland Township. via The Evening Sun

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Business publisher, Massinvestor, Inc., recently announced the launch of its 2008 Mid-Atlantic Venture Capital and Private Equity Directory, which profiles more than 300 Venture Capital, Private Equity, Angel ... via Customer Interaction Solutions

The numbers are in for the third phase of Clearfield Borough's sanitary sewer upgrade, and the low bid is about $1.5 million less than budgeted. via GantDaily.com

“In this case our office decided not to pursue it because our usual stance when we find violations like that is that we give them a chance to fix it up and come into compliance. But DEP has the prerogative to pursue it themselves.”

State environmental regulators said Tuesday they have fined an Interstate 99 contractor $20,000 for sedimentation control violations in northern Blair County three years ago that led to pollution of South Bald Eagle Creek tributaries.

The Department of Environmental Protection fined A&L Inc. of Belle Vernon, Westmoreland County, for violating the Pennsylvania Clean Streams Law in late 2004 and early 2005 during excavation of Interstate 99 in Blair County, DEP Regional Director Robert Yowell said. Read more