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mmaroney@sungazette.com Williamsport City Council approved a construction contract of $628,460 awarded to Dakronics Thursday night for the business to build a video scoreboard for use at Bowman Field. Dakronics is a company based in Brookings, South Dakota. The digital scoreboard will either be installed in time for this year’s Crosscutters’ baseball season in late May or in autumn, Jon Sander, city engineer, said. Additionally, the Crosscutters are contributing $100,000 toward the construction cost of the video scoreboard, according to Gabe Sinicropi, Crosscutters vice president, market...

mmaroney@sungazette.com City Council’s finance committee gave a positive recommendation Tuesday for the city administration to hire Daktronics to create and install a scoreboard at Bowman Field. Council is expected to review the $628,460 bid for the proposed contract on Thursday night. The cost is about $60,000 more than several years ago when a state Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program grant was approved as part of Bowman Field upgrades, Councilman Adam Yoder said. Part of the city obligation is to use the grant for the scoreboard, a video board that is light years ahead in technology...

mmaroney@sungazette.com City Council’s Ad Hoc City Hall Committee met Tuesday and honed in on two final options — to remain at the current City Hall or to renovate office space the city owns at Trade and Transit Centre I or II. “I think we are making progress to the point of completion for the committee,” said Councilman Adam Yoder, its chairman. Short of a funding plan, which is estimated to be $4 million to $5 million for either option, the committee has narrowed its intent to either make a decision on staying at City Hall or moving the administrative offices to one of the transit b...

mmaroney@sungazette.com City Council’s finance committee on Tuesday gave a positive recommendation for council to authorize hiring Dewberry Engineering Inc. to redesign Willow Street in the city East End. Dewberry, if approved by council Thursday, would be paid $160,000 to do engineering design work making the one-way alley that lies between East Third and East Fourth streets and runs for a quarter-mile between Basin and Market streets, into a pathway for pedestrians and bicyclists. It would be reconstructed and include a bike path designation, landscaping such as rain gardens and permeabl...

mmaroney@sungazette.com MARK NANCE/Sun-Gazette Potholes and cracked pavement are shown on West Third Street between Walnut and Campbell Streets. About one mile of Third Street west of Mulberry Street to Seventh Avenue is scheduled for resurfacing and addition of curb cuts at intersections this summer. “We are planning to resurface — not reconstruct — the street,” said Chris King, a state Department of Transportation District 3 spokesman during Monday’s Williamsport Area Transportation Study technical committee meeting. PennDOT has wanted to reconstruct the street but financial chall...