More than nine miles of roadway along six secondary roads in Moore County will be resurfaced soon.
The N.C. Department of Transportation awarded a $1.41 million contract to Fred Smith Company, the lowest qualified bidder for the project. Work is expected to begin July 26 and is scheduled for completion in June 2022.
The locations are as follows: Doubs Chapel Road from U.S. 15-501 to Carlton Road; May Street from East Morganton Road to the Southern Pines limits; Old River Road from Glendon Carthage Road to Priest Hill Road; 1.28 miles of Beulah Hill Church Road south of Carthage Road; Bibey Road from Farm Life School Road to Niagara Carthage Road; and
Resurfacing work on U.S. 1 in Southern Pines and Aberdeen will begin Tuesday evening, June 1. Construction will be performed between 7 p.m and 7 a.m., weather permitting, and is
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – As North Carolina’s unemployment rate continues its steady decline, employers across the state are simultaneously ramping up their hiring efforts. There are currently tens of thousands of jobs on offer across the Triangle region alone.
According to the latest data from the North Carolina Department of Commerce, the state’s unemployment rate hovered around 5% in April, reflecting only a slight drop from the previous month. Still, that figure is 8.5 percentage opoints lower than a year ago, when unemployment hit 13.5%.
But the pace of hiring varies widely from sector to sector. April’s most significant job gains came from manufacturing, construction, leisure and hospitality services, information technology, and education and health services, per NC Department of Commerce data. At the same time, professional and business services, trade, transportation and utilities, government, financial activities, mining and logging, and other services saw decreases
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WRAL TechWire examined this dynamic last week in a multi-part series covering the state’s emerging “jobs conundrum.” Pandemic-related concerns and lack of financial incentives play into this shortfall, as NC State economist Mike Walden pointed out in a column.
Employers are scrambling to fill high-demand roles in healthcare, drug development and biotechnology, as today’s Jobs Report shows. Jobs in tech-centric occupations like software development and information technology are also readily available.
The Pinehurst traffic circle will continue to be closed each night through Thursday while road resurfacing work is underway. The project is part of a $2.86 million contract state transportation (DOT) officials awarded the Fred Smith Company of Raleigh earlier this year.
Repaving work is also scheduled along parts of U.S. 1 and U.S. 15-501 and eight sections of secondary roads in Moore County, with all work slated for completion by June 2022.
Brandon Jones, N.C. Department of Transportation (DOT) Division 5 engineer, said the resurfacing projects have no effect on the timelines for other major road projects that have been postponed to accommodate the 2024 U.S. Open in Pinehurst.