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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. $4.8M redo of Stockton Ave. starts in April City of Ripon officials are asking residents and motorists to avoid Stockton Avenue during next month’s scheduled road construction. Big rigs will still be permitted along this stretch of road designated as a major truck route.
Work on the much-anticipated Stockton Avenue Rehabilitation Project is scheduled to begin during the first week of April.
Engineering Supervisor Elizabeth Quilici confirmed the proposed one-year timeline at the March 9 Ripon City Council meeting.
“They’re coordinating (efforts) with businesses and residents on Stockton Avenue,” she said.
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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Ripon may ban heavy rec use in riparian habitat Oak Grove is an untouched riparian natural habitat with walking and biking trails. It s there that the City of Ripon was asked about developing a disc golf course
A disc golf course at Oak Grove Park?
For those in the know, that’s the 55 acres of undeveloped land near Stockton Avenue between the Diamond Pet Food plant and the Stanislaus River.
Not too long ago, the City of Ripon received a request about the possibility of developing a disc golf course.
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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Ripon moving forward with Stockton Ave. work Work will soon begin on the Stockton Avenue Rehabilitation Project as bidding closed on Monday.
The bidding process for the much-anticipated Stockton Avenue Rehabilitation Project is a major step forward.
“We’re looking forward to that project to finally get going,” Mayor Daniel de Graaf said at last month’s Ripon City Council meeting.
Bids were accepted this week – the closing date was Monday – and will be publicly opened, read aloud, and evaluated, prior to being forward to Tuesday’s Council meeting.
January 27, 2021 by Gary Singh
OLD MEETS NEW: The Chestnut Industrial Center and the neighborhood around it feel like 50s San Jose meets present day.
Photo by Gary Singh
In a green color like freeway signage, the placard says Chestnut Industrial Center. Splotches of faded primer barely conceal the graffiti. Other, unidentified materials drip down the front of the sign, as if someone threw garbage at it.
I arrive at this sign after segueing off Coleman Avenue onto Asbury Street, which then dead-ends at Chestnut Street, centering me as I launch into one of San Jose s most picturesque industrial wastelands. Between Coleman Avenue and the railroad tracks, from Taylor Street up to Interstate 880, it s all here: Roofing, construction, building and landscape management, petroleum, concrete and collision repair.
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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Traffic signals now operating at Colony & Highway 99 ramp
Traffic is now flowing better along Colony Road.
The traffic signals at the Freeway 99 on / ramp replaced the four-way stop as part of the Colony & Signal Project.
Cost including the recent change order of $7,170 (as paid through the Capital Transportation Fund) coupled with several previous change orders tallied at about $538,000. The signal at Colony and Hoff (were) turned on Jan. 13, said Engineering Supervisor Elizabeth Quilici at Tuesday s Ripon City Council meeting.
She added that the East Main Street Handicap Ramp & Crosswalk Project along with the ramp and attached sidewalk, contractor Ross F. Carroll Inc. took care of the installation of the small piping to the drain storm water along with the re-striping of the adjacent leg of the intersection