Growing up, Glenn Vollmer was surrounded by equipment. Whether it was being around his dad’s farm equipment or his brother's excavating business, those days spent operating equipment were instrumental ...

Snohomish County has started on its to-do list of summer paving and chip seal roadwork. It’s about a month ahead of last year’s work, due to an increased list of 2017 patchwork jobs that need initial ...

The in basket: John Ward is unhappy with the chip sealing of Rova Road in North Kitsap, on which he lives. “They redid a part of Sawdust Hill but didn't chip seal,” he said. “I got the impression from ...

HOT SPRINGS -- Garland County no longer has a use for chip-and-seal paving materials as it prepares to make greater use of paving methods that promise improved road durability. Chips sitting idle at ...

The in basket: Kitsap County seems to be in a bit of an uprising over the durability of recent chip seal paving, in which crushed rock is laid down on a bed of oil and allowed to set in the oil to ...

Chip-and-seal paving has begun in Cape Girardeau County, more than a year after first being proposed as a money saving alternative to asphalt. County Road 273, which stretches for 1.3 miles south from ...

Larry Payne believes the reasons for paving failures on Cape Girardeau County roads need to be identified. Speaking as chairman of the county's road and bridge advisory board, Payne told county ...

Mount Veeder Road was "repaved" with something called "chip and seal" less than three months ago. "Chip and seal" is the combination of recycled asphalt crushed into small "chips" or stones and liquid ...

What would you say if I told you your driveway doesn’t need to be boring blacktop or ho-hum gray concrete? Can you envision a red, orange, green or light khaki color driveway? Would you like a ...