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The Rite-Hite Aftermarket Corporation introduced the GuardRite Sure-Stop Barrier System today which provides protection when it is critical to have a barrier that must stop a fork truck. The rugged GuardRite Sure-Stop is an 8-inch high barrier constructed from 3/16-inch formed cold rolled steel, and is reinforced with 7-inch wide by 3/8-inch full- height gussets for strength and durability. When anchored to a concrete floor, the Sure-Stop can stop a 10,000-pound fork truck with little or no deflection. The safety yellow painted GuardRite Sure-Stop Barrier System is available in 18, 24, 36, 48 or 60-inch lengths.
Integral steel gussets provide the Sure-Stop with support to help stop powered material handling equipment, while anchoring hardware make the installation clean and easy.
LEOMINSTER -- Sharon Kubik decided two years ago that her small three-bedroom gambrel house wasn't big enough for her, her husband and her three sons. "I wanted a garage. I am too old to be shoveling snow off my car at 6 or 7 o'clock in the morning," Kubik, 44, said while standing outside her home. "I was tired of sharing a bathroom with three boys." The family's 1,632 square-foot, two-story house on Birchcroft Road had three bedrooms and one-and-a-half bathrooms. The Kubiks searched for a contractor to build an addition onto their home, but they couldn't find one they liked. So they put their house up for sale and began looking for a bigger home, hoping to stay in the city. "But I wasn't objecting to moving outside of Leominster," Kubik said. But Kubik found something wrong with all the houses they looked at, and she began to worry about uprooting her sons -- Daniel, 20, Julian, 16, and Bradley, 12.
The US economy continued to expand in recent weeks despite a "widespread cooling" in housing market, the Federal Reserve reported Thursday. Last week, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said that the housing market was in the midst of a "substantial correction." The Fed's Beige Book, an anecdotal report on economic conditions in the 12 regions of the Federal Reserve System, found that the economy was expanding with growth being described as "moderate or mixed." However, the report noted a distinct slowdown in housing with the majority of the Fed's 12 regions reporting lower asking prices for houses, a softening in sales and rising stocks of unsold homes. The Fed said that reports from around the country "indicated widespread cooling" in housing markets with financial institutions finding that mortgage lending activity had tapered off.
WEST SPRINGFIELD - A request for four modular classrooms at the Tatham Elementary School now tops the list of the schools' capital budget requests for fiscal 2008. The School Committee recently approved the list that the School Department will submit to the Capital Program Planning Committee. Initially, the School Committee's Facilities Planning Subcommittee had recommended that a request for funds to pay for architectural fees for the High School and Tatham School be top and second, respectively, on the list. The request is for $214,191 for the High School's fees and $844,200 for Tatham. Both expenditures will enable the School Department to get the ball rolling on its master plan to renovate and expand the city's aging school buildings.
Seven years after a virtual halt to Native subsistence hunts was thought to have put a depleted stock of Cook Inlet beluga whales on a path to recovery, marine mammal scientists counting the bright white whales from the air last summer spotted fewer than ever. Scientists with the National Marine Fisheries Service say the aerial surveys in June and August are not always the best evidence of how many belugas are there. A harder "abundance estimate" that takes into account whales observers didn't see because they were below the surface, or juveniles with gray hides that are difficult to spot in the silty Inlet, is still under development. But the roughly 150 belugas counted this year are not reassuring, particularly coming after 2005, when the agency's abundance estimate for the number remaining in Cook Inlet was set at 278, the lowest figure since NMFS began the annual beluga surveys in 1993.
U.S. 10 WORK. Maintenance work is scheduled at two locations on U.S. 10 in Winnebago County. The westbound U.S. 10 off-ramp at County CB will be closed from 8:30 a.m. Monday to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday. Crews will be making concrete repairs. One lane will be closed on westbound U.S. 10 about three miles east of State 76 on Monday through Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. daily. Crews will be leveling the approaches to the railroad bridge. U.S. 41 REPAIRS. Concrete repairs have been taking place on U.S. 41 between Breezewood Lane in Winnebago County and State 15 in Outagamie County. The project was scheduled for completion Friday, but the deadline has been extended to 6 a.m. Wednesday. Through 6 a.m. Monday, all lanes and ramps on U.S. 41 will be open. From 6 p.m. Monday to 6 a.m.
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