Archives for Wednesday, August 1, 2001newsMore than 150 community leaders, elected officials and concerned citizens participated in a public meeting Tuesday with Texas Department of Transportation officials on the planned $35 million Northwest Loop 363 project.The project will result in four traffic lanes and continuous, one-way frontage roads from Hopi Trail to the intersection with Interstate 35 north of Temple.The project is still in the initial planning phases, Tx What a difference a month makes.On the morning of July 1, parts of Bell County got as much as 4 inches of rain.The 0.69 of an inch recorded at Temple's Draughon-Miller Central Texas Regional Airport was seen as the beginning of what would hopefully be a good month.At the time, County Extension Agent James M. Davis said the early July rain had put area grasses and grains over the hump.It hasn't rained since. by Larry Causey
Local officials celebrated Tuesday after a project that will mean $10 million in new development in East Temple was funded by the governing board of the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs."We're just delighted about it," Temple Mayor Keifer Marshall Jr. said of the selection of "The Village at Meadow Bend" for funding in the Low Income Housing Tax Credit program. "We're going to have a development over there that we can be proud of."Seventy-five percent of the 138 planned apartment units on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive will be subsidized for low-income housing.The project was designed and presented by the Encinas Group of San Diego, Calif.Both the Temple City Council and the Temple Housing Authority Board of Directors voted in February to support the Encinas project in the highly competitive process for tax credit funding."Temple had three projects that all scored well in their own right," Gary Schmidt, chairman of the housing authority's board, said. "I think the Encinas project was a superior project overall, and TDHCA concurred with that." by Anna Foster
sportsMontreal closer Ugueth Urbina and a bevy of bullpen arms changed teams, with pitching at a premium as contenders scrambled to beat baseball's trade deadline that ended at 3 p.m. Tuesday.Urbina, nearly traded to the New York Yankees in June, instead was sent to the rival Red Sox for minor league pitchers Tomo Ohka and Rich Rundles.The Red Sox needed bullpen help, with closer Derek Lowe struggling all season, and found it with Urbina."He's death to right-handed hitters," Red Sox general manager Dan Duquette said. "If you need a strikeout in a key situation, he can provide that."Relievers, Mike Trombley and Terry Mulholland were also on the move, while Atlanta filled a need by acquiring shortstop Rey Sanchez.The Los Angeles Dodgers were busy, too. They got Trombley from Baltimore for two minor leaguers and Mulholland from Pittsburgh for pitcher Mike Fetters and a minor leaguer."I was kind of prepared not to make any moves. At 3:50, I thought it was over. The deal went down at 3:59:25," Baltimore vice president of baseball operations Syd Thrift said. by The Associated Press
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