News: Clark Co. - Hwy. 29 Construction (30 Apr 1997)

Transcriber: Robert Lipprandt
bob@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Ross, Wendels

----Source: The Tribune - Phonograph (Abbotsford, WI) 5/03/2017

Originally published in the Colby Phonograph, Wednesday, April 30, 1997

The construction season is beginning to bloom, and the continuing transformation of Highway 29 to a four-lane expressway across the state has begun for 1997.

ASH Co. Inc. of Wausau has been at work for about a month at the inte4trsection of Hwys. 29and H (Edgar Corners) on a $2.95 million contract to construct an interchange and overpass. The four ramps will be usable by late fall of this year according to Doug Ross, coordinator of Hwy. 29 projects in marathon County.

In the Abbotsford area, two projects are on tap for this summer. Strew Construction from Two Rivers will begin paving work soon on the 10.5 mile stretch of new roadbed from Withee to just west of Abbotsford. The preliminary grading was done in 1996.

Jim Wendels, a DOT official in the district office at Wisconsin Rapids, said final grading work will start May 12 on the west-bound lanes, with the paving equipment moving from Withee to the east. Around the first of June, he sated paving would begin, also on the west-to-east pattern.

The DOT official noted there are several structure to replace in Owen.