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NEIGHBORHOOD COMPLAINS * USA - Tired of trucks
Vehicles hauling fill for a new sports park in Medford have residents of a Jacksonville-area neighborhood fuming
Medford,Jacksonville,ORE,USA -The Mail Tribune, by TONY BOOM -July 21, 2008: -- ... By 7 o'clock, a constant stream of big diesel trucks will be hauling fill material past her house, and the parade will continue for the next 11 hours... Knife River Materials has up to 35 rigs per day going past Cox's garden and through downtown Jacksonville... They're hauling 80,000 tons of fill from a quarry on Pair-A-Dice Ranch Road to the new sports park complex in south Medford. Other trucking companies are hauling from additional quarry sites up the road, swelling the traffic load... "Jacksonville is a seasonal economy," said Whitman Parker, publisher of The Jacksonville Review, which has an office on California Street. "A better time for the project might have been April or May or September or October, not July and August, at the most critical economical time for this town."... (Photo by Jim Craven - A heavy truck drives through Jacksonville with a load of gravel, one of many rigs traveling through downtown these days carrying fill to Medford?s new sports park)Labels: neighboring complains
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