BRIEFLY.I-5 work to cause delays on Game Farm Road For the next two weeks, Game Farm Road between Eugene and Springfield will be the road construction pinch point that motorists will want to avoid - unless they don't mind spending 20 minutes idling in traffic. Crews will halt traffic while they place girders for the new Interstate 5 bridge over Game Farm Road. The closures will be between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays until March 1. The Oregon Department of Transportation expects Monday to be the busiest closure day and advises the public to find alternate routes An official alternate route is a bannered highway that provides an alternate alignment for a highway. Originally, the term for these routes was "optional"; but in 1959, the designation became alternate. on that day. The crews are expected to finish the current project, which is to replace the northbound north·bound adj. Going toward the north. northbound Adjective going towards the north Adj. 1. freeway bridge, by October. After that, they'll start on the southbound south·bound adj. Going toward the south. southbound Adjective going towards the south Adj. 1. freeway bridge. REGION Planning commission Noun 1. planning commission - a commission delegated to propose plans for future activities and developments commission, committee - a special group delegated to consider some matter; "a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours" - Milton Berle rejects Wal-Mart bid COTTAGE GROVE Cottage Grove, village (1990 pop. 22,935), Washington co., SE Minn., near the St. Croix River; inc. 1965. There is farming (cattle, sheep, corn, and soybeans) and manufacturing (chemicals and machinery). - Wal-Mart's expansion plans here took a hit Wednesday night from the city's planning commission. Commission members voted 7-0 to request the city's staff to draw up a recommendation for denial of Wal-Mart's plans to expand its store from 81,000 square feet into a 160,000-square-foot "supercenter," according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. planning commission Vice Chairman David McClean. At its meeting next week, the planning commission will then vote on that recommendation, which will be sent on to the City Council. The 2 1/2 -hour-long meeting included testimony from foes of the proposal as well as revisiting testimony from supporters. Wal-Mart representatives were then given time for a rebuttal rebuttal n. evidence introduced to counter, disprove or contradict the opposition's evidence or a presumption, or responsive legal argument. . McClean said there were a range of items that the planning commission felt Wal-Mart didn't fully address that led to their vote. Coos Bay Coos Bay (k  s), city (1990 pop. 15,076), Coos co., SW Oreg., a port of entry on Coos Bay; founded 1854 as Marshfield, inc. 1874, renamed 1944. resident dies
after Highway 101 wreck A Coos Bay man has died from injuries he suffered in a violent wreck near Gold Beach. Edward William Phelan Jr., 56, died Wednesday morning at Oregon Health & Science University Hospital in Portland. State police said he was the driver of a pickup truck that drifted across the northbound lanes of Highway 101 near Gold Beach on Tuesday and hit a guardrail. The truck then swerved across both lanes and hit a concrete bridge over Myers Creek before swerving back across the road and hitting another bridge. His passenger, Jeran Michael Tibbets, 18, also of Coos Bay, was able to steer the truck to the middle of the road. It came to a stop facing south in the middle of the highway. A preliminary investigation found that Phelan was not wearing a seat belt. Tibbets was wearing a seat belt and survived the wreck, state police said. The crash remains under investigation. - From Register-Guard and news service reports |
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