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ASU receives $120,000 for energy projects
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Published: May 6, 2008
BOONE -- Appalachian State University has received $120,000 to help improve energy efficiency on campus. The grant was awarded by Gov. Mike Easley through the state's Energy Efficiency Fund and is part of more than $5 million awarded to state agencies, universities and community colleges.
ASU will use $15,000 to install energy-efficicient lighting at the Broyhill Inn and Conference Center, which is expected to save about $21,000 a year in utility costs. Energy-efficient lighting will also be installed in Duncan Hall, with the university matching $15,000 awarded from the state.
The improvements are expected to save about $21,000 a year.
About $90,000 will be used to improve the heating, air and hood-exhaust systems in a student laboratory building. Officials said they are determining how much money the changes will save, but they said that the building has the highest energy use per square foot of any building on campus.
The $5 million being spent on 58 projects across the state is expected to save about $3.2 million a year in utility costs.
Local attraction and railroad among 16 recipients of grants
A local nonprofit tourist attraction and a privately owned area railroad were among the recipients of 16 grants announced yesterday by state environmental officials for projects to reduce air pollution from mobile sources.
The N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources granted Old Salem Museum and Gardens $7,250 to replace gas-powered vehicles used by grounds and maintenance workers at the restored Moravian Village in Winston-Salem with electric vehicles.
The Yadkin Valley Railroad, a short-line freight hauler that operates on a track from Rural Hall to both Mount Airy and North Wilkesboro received $42,500 in state money to buy automatic start and stop systems for its trains.
Awards statewide totaled $800,390. The grant program is paid for by a 1/64-cent-a- gallon tax on gasoline sold in North Carolina.
Two sections of local roads will be closed this week
City streets crews will close two sections of local roads to through traffic this week so that the intersection of Burke Mill and South Stratford roads can be realigned.
Starting at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Van Buren Street between Frontis Street and Burke Mill Road and Burke Mill Road between Griffith and South Stratford roads will be shut down until construction is complete.
The project is expected to be finished by November. Detours will be posted.
The certificate-of-need application must be approved by the N.C. Division of Health Service Regulation.
WE WERE WRONG
An Associated Press story on Page A11 Sunday about Brazilian soccer star Ronaldo was accompanied by a misidentified picture. The picture was of Cristiano Ronaldo, also an international soccer star. The soccer player involved in the scandal is Ronaldo Luis Nazario de Lima.
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