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Oakmont officials tapped a Valencia-based company to cover this year’s paving program. Council unanimously voted to award a nearly $302,000 contract to Shields Asphalt Paving. Borough manager Scot Fodi said he is familiar with the company from when he worked at Middlesex and Pine townships. Shields was the lowest of eight bidders. “They are a competent company that can do the job,” Fodi said. Borough officials budgeted about $350,000 for the infrastructure upgrades. Streets to be improved...

Michael DiVittorio | Tribune-Review Oakmont council President Patricia Friday, borough manager Scot Fodi and police Chief Michael Ford were in council chambers for the Feb. 15 meeting. Other council members and officials participated online.   TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Oakmont officials put this year’s paving project out for bid and plan to award the contract next month. Council unanimously voted Feb...

TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Oakmont officials plan to spend about $350,000 to pave eight streets and a boat ramp as part of this year’s road improvement program. The paving project advertisement is expected to be approved at the Feb. 15 council meeting with possible contract approval in March. Streets to be improved include: • Virginia Avenue from Twelfth Street to the cul-de-sac. • Woodland Avenue f...

TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Flood mitigation projects proposed for the Oakmont Commons housing plan are contingent upon grant funding, Oakmont officials said Tuesday. The borough applied for $500,000 through the Commonwealth Financing Authority’s Flood mitigation Program last July. It’s a matching grant with the borough projected to shell out 15%, about $75,000, should it be awarded. “We need to wait...

TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Kiski Township supervisors plan to establish the Kiski Township Sewage Authority next month to oversee a $16 million project to bring public sewerage to nearly 700 homes. That amounts to about half of township households, said township engineer Richard Lenhart of Senate Engineering. About 10% of the township residents have public sewers, and those are in the western portion of t...