City of Conway officials believe their $2 million multiyear project, designed to reduce flooding in the area near Trinity United Methodist Church, could become a model for other communities.
Conway City Council voted recently to move ahead with the project that city officials have whittled down from an estimated $2.4 million to somewhere in the neighborhood of $2 million, according to Deputy City Administrator/Grants Coordinator John Rogers.
At a recent meeting, council members voted unanimously to seek a grant from the Building Resilient Infrastructure in Communities (BRIC) program to allow engineers, Robinson Design Engineers, (RDE) to complete its plan designed to mimic a Carolina Bay, the naturally-occurring elliptical depressions that sometimes include rare foliage and help prevent flooding.
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MOUNT CARMEL â Betty Ruth Riley Mair, 94, passed peacefully in her sleep on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020, at Wabash General Hospital. She was the youngest of eight children born to Mary Ann (Hatfield) and Charles W. Riley in Owensville, Indiana, on Jan. 22, 1926.
After graduating from Owensville High School in 1944, Betty attended Central Beauty College in Indianapolis, Indiana. Upon completion of college, she was employed by Marinella Beauty Shop in Princeton, Indiana, along with her sister Lorraine.
Upon return from the Navy, Bob Mair lived in Princeton. He spied his future wife sitting at the corner of a local restaurant. They were married six months later Dec. 31, 1946. In 1949 they moved to Mt. Carmel, where they settled and were active in the community and their church, Trinity United Methodist. As a 67-year member of Trinity, Betty kept very busy. She taught Sunday School, helped with Bible School, and provided food for the many meals served at the church. Betty decorated a ta
JERSEY SHORE Property taxes in the Jersey Shore Borough will not increase in 2021.
Borough Council this week unanimously approved a 2021 budget that keeps the tax rate the same and balances expenses and income at $1,836,380.
Moreover, council authorized the police commission to continue investigating further regionalization services of the Tiadaghton Valley Regional Police Force.
Meeting by Zoom, Cody Hoover, borough manager, said the general purpose tax rate has not changed from 8.966 mills and disclosed that if a borough resident has a property assessed at $100,000, he or she pays $896.60 in property taxes.
Also with council’s approval, Hoover was granted a pay raise from $55,000 to $65,000, an 18 percent increase.
Travis Lee DeFreese, of Ruston, LA, passed away Sunday, December 13, 2020 following a long illness.
Travis was born August 4, 1931 in West Monroe, Louisiana and attended Claiborne and Crosley Grammar Schools. In 1950, he graduated from Ouachita Parish High School in Monroe, as part of the first class to complete 12 grades. When the new Ouachita Parish High School opened, he was one of ten representatives chosen to personify outstanding students from all the previous student bodies at Ouachita.
Mr. DeFreese received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Louisiana Tech University in 1954. While at Tech, he served as Student Body President, President of the sophomore, and Junior Classes, and also President of Kappa Sigma Fraternity, Epsilon Gamma Chapter.
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