Traffic Pattern on Walnut Street to Change

by Scotty Wampler
News Editor
  A minor traffic pattern change will take effect Thursday in downtown Grundy.
  Both entrances to the Post Office on Walnut Street will change to one-way traffic, according to Grundy Industrial Development Authority Director Chuck Crabtree. The parking lot will also be changed to reflect the new pattern, he said.
  Beginning Thursday, Walnut Street traffic should enter either Post Office entrance and exit to the left, circling back around to old Main Street.
  Walnut Street remains closed just beyond the Post Office for the installation of a flood gate. The road closure and construction, part of the ongoing downtown flood project, is expected to last through Labor Day.
  The retractable flood gate, which will stretch to the newly-constructed flood ringwall when necessary, is being installed near the Mountain Perks coffee shop.

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Committee Established to Examine Possibility of Government Complex

by Scotty  Wampler
News Editor  
   The idea of a new government complex for Buchanan County inched closer to reality last week.
  A new committee consisting of three county supervisors was formed to further examine both the feasibility and interest of such a complex.
  As proposed by a concept plan designed by Hill Studio, the new 18-acre complex would be built during construction phase one of the massive Poplar Gap/Lover's Gap development project.
  "We've hashed it over several times about what we're going to put up there," County Administrator W.J. Caudill said of past discussions of the proposed complex. "It's been talked about for some time."
  Rocklick Supervisor David Ratliff, South Grundy Supervisor Roger Rife and North Grundy Supervisor and Board Chairman Carroll Branham, who all agreed to sit on the committee during last week's regular board meeting, have yet to officially convene to discuss the matter.
  Any number of government agency buildings and/or offices could be located in the new complex, should it become a reality. Caudill said the county administrator's office, the Public Service Authority, offices for constitutional officers and a county maintenance facility are only a few of the offices and agencies that could relocate to Poplar Gap.

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