As of early Tuesday evening, the joint roadwork project between the Bellwood Borough, Bellwood-Antis School District, and Antis Township for the upgrading of Martin Street, which runs alongside the school and baseball field, will have reached completion.
\nIn June, Bellwood Borough Council representatives went to the school district and proposed doing roadwork near the school. If the school district was willing to replace the sidewalk and curbing on Martin Street, from 2nd Street to just beyond 4th Street, the borough would be able to pave up to the curb. By doing this, greatly needed additional parking would be possible to provide to the community of Bellwood.
\nThe Bellwood-Antis School District didn\u2019t waste any time on the project. The school district bid in June and by July, Blaircon Building, Inc. were hired to begin sidewalk and curbing installment along Martin Street at a cost of $35,300.
\nThe Bellwood Borough likewise placed a bid and hired New Enterprise Stone & Lime Company, Inc., Roaring Spring, to do the paving for the project. The cost of the paving was roughly between $27,000 to $28,000, and the materials for the paving part of the project would be bought by New Enterprise locally in Tyrone.
\nAntis Township joined in on the project when Bellwood Borough approached the township with the project. Ray Amato, Antis Township Supervisor, elaborated on what the township plans to do with their end of the project. \u201cIn the next couple of weeks, we\u2019re going to widen the lower end of the road about three feet, which will help the storm water drain into the drainage system and ditches.\u201d Amato added, \u201cIt\u2019s good that we all can work together like this, and I hope it continues in the future.\u201d
\nThe Martin Street Project quickly reached a finality in less than three months, thanks to the joint efforts of the borough, school district and township. Even the paving of the roadway didn\u2019t take long. Calvin Childres, Foreman of the project site for New Enterprise, stated, \u201cIt was a one day project. We started around 6:30 in the morning and we should be finishing up around five or six this (Tuesday) evening.\u201d He added, \u201cWe\u2019ve had no problems; everything\u2019s running smoothly.\u201d
\nKen Swanson, Business Manager of the Bellwood-Antis School District commemorated the efforts of everyone involved, \u201cIt was a good cooperative effort. The borough had funding they could use for the paving, we used money from our capital improvements to do the sidewalk and curbing.\u201d He added, \u201cParking is one of our improvements and this project provides more availability for parking.\u201d
\nParking was the main issue for the school district and borough of Bellwood. Borough Council President, Wayne Snare, said that parking by the school has been a problem, and the Martin Street Project would solve that problem.
\n\u201cParking was needed, but the road needed updated anyway,\u201d said Snare. \u201cEverything fell in line and worked out good for everyone. Antis Township had a little part in the project also, so everyone was involved.\u201d
\nSnare added, \u201cEverybody worked together between the school, borough and township, which was nice. And it\u2019s going to be done before school is back in session, which is great also.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As of early Tuesday evening, the joint roadwork project between the Bellwood Borough, Bellwood-Antis School District, and Antis Township for the upgrading of Martin Street, which runs alongside the school and baseball field, will have reached completion. In June, Bellwood Borough Council representatives went to the school district and proposed doing roadwork near the school. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}