Up next, Boyd County Fair & Poage Landing Days

 

With SummerMotion 2009 in the books, up next is Boyd County Fair August 18th and Ashland's Poage Landing Days which is always the third weekend in September. 

 

 

Notice the bulldozer and removal of sod behind the Elks Club?

 

It is construction of a parking lot for the new building behind Citizens Bank which is owned by a local developer and will be mostly occupied by KDMC workers who will move from old power company building to new location. Both the building and parking lot will be on the tax rolls.

 

Expecting or shipping a package? There's a hint pictured at right.

 

If you're shipping a FedEx package or letter, there's a good chance you'll hear it roar over the Ashland area about 10:25 on most weeknights.  FedEx operate a mini hub at TriState Airport and after feeder planes arrive from rural areas, they are loaded onto a FedEx jet that frequently flies to Columbus, or points north, before getting to Memphis. It leaves every night at 10:22 PM and returns at 5:15 AM. If you're curious how your package gets to grandma's house in rural Idaho or elsewhere by 10:30 the next morning, or that important letter from Japan gets on your desk in a day, watch this.

 

 

It is

hard to

see the

progress

of

river

front

constr-

uction

by

looking

at this photo. Next time you're driving around, park at the 15th Street Transportation Center and use caution walking across the railroad tracks to see construction progress. Workers are driving steel to extend the park out into the river. 

 

 

The Kitchen Building

located at 15th and

Winchester,

and once was Second

National Bank and

later the Steckler's Building, is under design to be converted to an apartment building with retail on the first floor. A Louisville developer is behind the design and the city commission voted to take the first step towards providing a federal tax credit with use of Community Block Grand Funds needed to make this possible. This building will not be low income apartments.

 

Meanwhile, the Sears Building, which remains a terrible eyesore in downtown, goes out for bid to be demolished. 

 

 

A recent

article in the Daily Independent

reported

the popular

water

fountain

located at

Library Commons of Central Park is out of service. That's true. It'll be back soon. City Manager Steve Corbitt reports a new non slip surface, which will cost several thousand dollars, will be placed on the the surface which will allow water flowing to resume. Unfortunately, it'll be up 75 days before it is fully restored. 

 

 

 

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