Beaver Excavating Co., Canton, is the apparent low bidder for a project, which will reconstruct and widen Interstate 75 through Findlay and Hancock County beginning this spring.
The apparent successful bid was $113.2 million. The contract will be officially awarded in approximately two weeks once a review of all bidding documents is complete.
The project will take place from just south of Harrison Street/County Road 144, which is just south of the Ohio 15/U.S. Route 68 interchange, to the County Road 99 interchange in Findlay.
Several spring testing dates are approaching Bluffton middle school students. That list and several other bits of news are part of the current issue of Pirate Press, the middle school newsletter.
In addition, several calendar items are in the newsletter. A complete copy of the newsletter is attached at the bottom of this story.
S.H.A.N.N.O.N. Service Club and the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center launch the 2017 Bluffton garage sale season at the end of February. There's even a chicken barbecue tossed in.
Two Bluffton school collection drives take place this spring and community members are invited to participate.
The Ball Metal Aluminum Can Challenge is an aluminum can drive that earns money for the school. Aluminum cans can be dropped off from 7:30 to 8 a.m. on the following Thursdays: March 2, April 6 and May 11, at the Bluffton HS Jackson Street entrance.
An American Red Cross blood drive is Tuesday, May 9.
