The Eastern Pulaski Community School Corporation’s asphalt and concrete project is underway. That will mean some temporary traffic restrictions around the schools’ campus starting today, according to Superintendent Dan Foster. “The north road from the corner of the middle school and it runs east to the corner of the auditorium, that road will actually be closed for about three weeks,” he explains. “A lot of our middle school staff park over there, and in the morning, the buses drop off at the middle school/high school and then go down that road back around to the elementary, so we’ve had to change what we’re doing the next few weeks.”
Foster says work on the project began during the schools’ spring break at the end of March. “They’ve torn up a lot of the curbing, so we have a lot of turned-over dirt right now, and we have a lot of barrels with caution tape around them everywhere,” he says. “So you can see some progress being made, but right now, it’s just a big old mess.” He says the hope is that contractors will be able to start pouring the new curbs this week, if weather allows.
The $2.4-million project involves resurfacing the driveways and most of the parking lots on the schools’ campus, along with curb and sidewalk repair. It’s scheduled to be done by the start of the next school year in August.
