Plans call for on-street bikeway:  Plans are underway to create nearly 5 miles of on-street bicycle lanes to enhance the city's Green Circle Trail.  For more information, visit the Winchester-Frederick County Metropolitan Planning Organization at winfredmpo.org  (Taken from an article in The Winchester Star on May 22, 2018)

VDOT:  Low water bridge will get gates.  The Old Charles Town Road bridge crosses the Opequon Creek at the Frederick-Clarke line.  It frequently floods during rainstorms.  This summer, the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) plans to erect gates near the bridge to keep people from trying to cross it when the Opequon Creek is flooding.  The one-lane, low-water bridge is used by roughly 1,500 vehicles daily.  The 80-year old concrete bridge is often submerged during rainstorms.  The gates would allow VDOT employees to close off the bridge in both directions so that drivers would not be able to cross over it when it floods.  Within the next few years, VDOT plans to replace the one-lane bridge with a two-lane one with a higher elevation.  VDOT estimates that closing the existing bridge for repairs will result in a 12-mile detour for motorists on either side of the bridge.  (For more information, see The Winchester Star article for May 22, 2018)  

Construction begins on new household trash collection site.  A Construction crew is clearing land along Quarry Road (Route 612) in Clarke County for a new convenience center for household trash.  Winchester-based Pine Knoll Construction was awarded the contract to build the center for $546,371.  The center will be owned and operated by the county and is due to be open by late August 2018 if the weather cooperates.  The convenience center will accept bagged household trash, and its recycling containers will accept paper, cardboard, aluminum and plastic.  It will not accept glass.  An attendant will be on-site whenever the convenience center is open.  (For more information, see The Winchester Star May 23, 2018.)  

Valley Proteins president see results of scholarship.  Ten community college students from across Virginia met here earlier this week to celebrate their completion of the Valley Proteins Fellows Program --a scholarship that provides full tuition, book expenses and fees to students in their second year of community college in the state.  This year J.J. Smith estimates that Valley Proteins contributed $70,000 to $75,000 to the program.  In addition to financial support, the Valley Proteins Fellows Program provides recipients with mentoring, coaching, networking opportunities, and leadership development activities.  (Taken from The Winchester Star article on May 23, 2018.)