PORT ANGELES — The summer’s second paving project along U.S. Highway 101 begins Monday and will include at least one night of pavement grinding later this week along a half-mile stretch south of downtown.
The three-week improvement project will stretch from the U.S. Highway 101 intersection with the Tumwater Truck Route (state Highway 117) near the Fairmount Texaco, east along Lauridsen Boulevard, turn north near Albertsons grocery store and continue along Lincoln Street to Front Street in the heart of downtown.
Nighttime paving grinding tentatively slated for Thursday may disrupt some business activity along the two-mile route, traveled by as many as 13,000 vehicles daily.
Jeanine and Dennis Hochhalter, co-owners of Foxglove Bed and Breakfast at the corner of Lincoln Avenue and 12th Street, were told the contractor would try to start the pavement grinding at 8 p.m. and finish by midnight, Jeanine Hochhalter said.
It could last two nights, but she’s not sure which nights.
“I don’t want our guests to be bothered by the noise, but I can’t plan because the highway department doesn’t know exactly when they will be here,” Hochhalter said.
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