A.V. SECTION GETTING STREETLIGHTS BACK.Byline: Jim Skeen Do you mean:
LANCASTER Lancaster, city, England Lancaster (lăng`kəstər), city (1991 pop. 43,902) and district, county seat of Lancashire, NW England, on the Lune River. - Southern California Edison Southern California Edison (or SCE Corp), the largest subsidiary of Edison International (NYSE: EIX), is the primary electricity supply company for much of Southern California. It provides 11 million people with electricity. crews are working to turn streetlights back on in a central Lancaster neighborhood after homeowners voted to accept a $25 rate increase, reversing a vote held earlier this year. Edison Edison, township (1990 pop. 88,680), Middlesex co., NE N.J., inc. 1870 as Raritan Township, renamed 1954. Edison's varied manufactures include light trucks, chemicals, metal products, electrical and electronic equipment, machinery, and instruments. crews were at work Wednesday getting the lights back on in an area bordered by avenues I and H east of 10th Street West, after 87 percent of voters approved a rate increase from $45 per year to $70. With the time change in effect and Halloween approaching, Edison is trying to have the lights back on tonight. ``The city asked us ahead of time if we could be ready to go if the vote was positive,'' Edison spokeswoman Alis Clausen said. ``We're lucky that the crews that normally do that work were not called away because of the fires.'' The neighborhood was one of nine areas in the city that rejected the rate hike this summer while 95 other neighborhoods had approved it. After the streetlights were turned off, homeowners asked the City Council for another vote. Ballots were counted Tuesday night. Two commercial areas also had second votes, with one agreeing to the fee hike and a second rejecting it again. Lancaster Auto Mall property owners voted for the rate hike. The neighboring neigh·bor n. 1. One who lives near or next to another. 2. A person, place, or thing adjacent to or located near another. 3. A fellow human. 4. Used as a form of familiar address. v. Commerce Center, the shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into with the Target store, voted against it. In the Commerce Center vote, 31 ballots were returned with neither yes nor no marked on them. Only one no ballot was received, but that was enough to defeat the rate hike. Jim Skeen, (661) 267-5743 james.skeen(at)dailynews.com |
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