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STONE HARBOR - The I April 19 deadline for comI pletion and reopening of I the Great Channel (96th I Street) Bridge came and I went with no completion I and no reopening. So, the state has begun applying a $2,500-a-day penalty on contractor Ray mond International Builders of Houston, Tex., according to Bob Hovick, principal engineer with the - state Department of Transportation (DOT). But what most folks really want to know is when the thing will open. And. 1 Hovick said, that will be "May 15, or before." Meetings AVALON - The borough's board of education has announce^ the schedule for its monthly meetings for 1985-86. The meetings, to be held 7 p.m. in the meeting room of the board of education, 32nd and Ocean Drive, follow: May 8. June 12, July 10. Aug. 14, Sept. 11, Oct. 3, Nov. 13, Dec. 11, Jan. 6, Feb. 12, and March 12. Brian Campbell is president of the board. Other officers are: Carman Scarpa, vice president; Nancy Hudanich. William Soens, William Burns, members. Hilda U. Klosterman is secretary to the board. Richard Bonner is chief school administrator.

f l,„ The bad news — a considerable amount of work remaining for fall — isn't as bad as once anticipated. COME OCTOBER, according to Neil Clarke, county engineer. Raymond will be permitted to close one lane of the bridge for two days at a time, and for no more than four times. In other words, motorists still will be able to get in and out of town. Some sort of crystal ball award probably should go to Edwin F. Pain, Stone Harbor borough manager, who suggesj^d to the Herald a year ago that the contractor could .always reopen the unfinished bridge in the spring and finish the job in the fall. Many scoffed at the suggestion. now a reality. IN BETWEEN May 15 and October. Hovick said, the bridge's bascule leafs will be temporarily with old motors and new electric (machinery) ' It's shafts, gears and motors that still aren't ready. As for the $2.500-a-<iay penalty. Hovick said it's not likely Raymond will be paying that for the entire six months it's late. "There will be approved extensions of time for extra work they have to do beyond their realm," said Hovick One of those extra jobs, Clarke said, is a strengthening of the operator's house. THE BRIDGE

reconstruction originally was proposed as a 10month job (eight months of construction; two months leeway for bad weather) to start in the fall of 1983 and be completed by the fall of, 1984. / Stone Harbor interests objected to losing the bridge during the 1984 tourist season and the job was changed to two, sixmonth periods, supposedly from mid-October to midApril in 1983-84 and 1984-85 Numerous red rape, including U.S. Coast Guard approval, delayed the bid opening to Nov. 3, 1983. The state awarded the contract Dec. 12 and work began Jan. 23, 1984. STONE HARBOR turned down a Raymond request for a two-week extension in April of 1984, but did approve a two-weeks-early resumption of work last Oct. 1 instead of Oct. 15. Travel to and from Stone Harbor has been via either Avalon or North Wildwood boulevards, a 10-mile detour, for what will be a total of 10 months. This is a $3.5-million state job (paid with 80 percent federal. 20 percent slate money) on a county bridge on a county road. County freeholders have been speculating for months about a joyous ribboncutting. But instead of shirt sleeves under the spring sun. the ceremony will call I for cardigans under fall 1 skies.

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