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New bridge opens path to Lumber City

By JULIANNE KILMER 1 min read
Sentinel photos by JULIANNE KILMER A ribbon-cutting was held Thursday morning to celebrate the new bridge constructed at the entrance of Lumber City, in Brown Township, Reedsville. Pictured are, from left, Connie Fultz and Taryn Picciurro, Brown Township secretaries; Kevin Kodish, Mifflin County Commissioner; John Breneman, from Senator Judy Ward’s office; Lonnie Griffith, Mifflin County Maintenance Department; Noah Wise, Mifflin County Commissioner; Jim Lettiere, Mifflin County Planning Director; Pete Picciurro, Jamie Fultz and Steve Glick, Brown Township supervisors; and Don Verobish and Tony Kost, of the EADS Group.

REEDSVILLE - Lumber City, Reedsville, has a new look.

The small neighborhood, tucked into the hillside along U.S. Route 322, was accessed for more than half a century by a one-lane bridge behind the Mifflin County Youth Park.

That bridge was recently replaced with an updated, two-lane bridge that was celebrated during a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday morning on the bridge in Reedsville.

Brown Township Supervisor Jamie Fultz said the new bridge was seven years in the making.

It has been in use since late summer while construction was completed. The project also included complete removal of the old bridge and construction of a new roadway leading to the updated bridge, as well as a turnaround at the end of West Railroad Street where the former bridge came across the creek.

Fultz, along with Don Verobish, of the EADS Group, explained that the old bridge required replacement due to structural concerns. The new bridge design was developed to improve structural integrity, widen travel lanes, and lessen debris pileup that led to flooding.

Fultz said there are 95 homes in the Lumber City neighborhood that will be served by the new bridge.

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