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Carver asks city to reimburse $41,000 in shipping costs

As I mentioned last Friday, Carver Lumber has filed its report to the Surface Transportation Board regarding the service it has been receiving via the newly-built western spur. You can read their letter here (84KB PDF file).

They give a lot of details, but the basic facts are these:

Deliveries that used to take 1-2 days [...]

July 24th, 2006 | Category: City of Peoria, Kellar Branch | 16 comments - (Comments are closed)

School board meeting tonight at 5:30

Peoria Public School District 150 will be meeting tonight at 5:30 to discuss the new school for the Woodruff High School attendance area. You can join them at 3202 N. Wisconsin Ave. and let your voice be heard, or you can watch them on cable channel 17.

I’ll be on a date with my wife [...]

July 24th, 2006 | Category: Peoria Public Schools | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

City to consider another consultant for Civic Center hotel

On the council’s agenda for Tuesday night is a request to hire yet another consultant to determine whether Peoria needs a hotel connected to the Civic Center. This one costs $21,000 and will look at demand for hotel rooms, what impact the proposed Civic Center hotel would have on existing hotels, and the quality [...]

July 24th, 2006 | Category: City Council, City of Peoria, Peoria Civic Center | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)