Fence Book

Work will soon begin to erect a fence at the Westmoreland County Prison to stave off suicide attempts by inmates jumping from the interior's second level.

Westmoreland County commissioners on Thursday approved a $46,000 contract with Allegheny Fence Construction Co. Inc. of Pittsburgh to put up the fencing around six units in the jail.

"We don't want anybody jumping off," said Warden John Walton.

"It's an astronomical cost we don't have if someone jumps off," he added.

Balcony jumpers have cost the county about $1 million in medical bills over the last two years.

Carolina Custom Fences is proud to offer bamboo fence installation at new discounted prices. By becoming a distributor of Calibamboo fencing products, Carolina Custom Fences can now pass on lower product costs to customers, making the bottom line of a fence installation much lower.

"Bamboo fencing used to be comparable in price with vinyl fencing," explains Scott Schulz, Owner of Carolina Custom Fences, "now it's more comparable to aluminum fencing, which is not much more expensive than a wood privacy fence."

House building is not the usual business of Atwood Fence Company of Kosciusko but as part of their philanthropic interests Kay Atwood decided to assist in the building of a Habitat for Humanity house in Jackson for a single mother and her son.

Newton County began construction Monday on an approximately $220,000 fenced-off parking area at the Newton County Judicial Center. The 20-parking space area is being built to ensure the safety of judges, the district attorney and other courtroom officials, County Engineer Kevin Walter said.

Courthouses naturally breed conflict and when a person, himself, or a family member is convicted of a crime, passions run high, Judge Samuel Ozburn said. Judges park next to the building which puts them directly in the path of litigants and family members entering and exiting the courthouse.

Steamboat Springs — The Federal Aviation Administration has granted $48,693 for an improved wildlife fence at Steamboat Springs Airport.

“We have an ongoing problem with deer, elk, and other wildlife that get on the airport property,” Deputy City Manager Wendy DuBord said. “This (will be) a bigger and better and more effective wildlife fence.”

DuBord said the FAA grant will cover 90 percent of costs for the fence, which the Colorado Aeronautical Board is also helping fund.

“I would expect our match to be pretty minimal,” DuBord said.

ANDERSON COUNTY — Two days after Anderson County sheriff's deputies obtained arrest warrants for men after a Starr couple's property was damaged, a contractor ran for cover when gunfire was heard coming from the men's house.

The gunshot was reported at noon Tuesday on Brown Road in Starr.

Two days earlier, a 40-year-old woman on Brown Road had told deputies that she witnessed her neighbors, both men, ages 35 and 70, using a hammer and kitchen knife in an effort to pull down her chain-link fence, according to Deputy W.T. Cunningham's report.

After a drawn out legal battle and months of negotiations behind closed doors, UTB-TSC President Juliet V. Garcia spoke openly on Friday about the border fence that once threatened to divide the university's campus.

For nearly a year, the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College was embroiled in a lawsuit with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. At the end of July, the university reached a compromise with the federal government, agreeing to enhance an existing fence instead of erecting a new one through campus.

Several South Texas congressmen are asking President Barack Obama to temporarily suspend the construction of the border fence to give him the chance to evaluate border security operations along the U.S-Mexico border.

U.S. Reps. Solomon P. Ortiz, D-Corpus Christi, and Ruben Hinojosa, D-Mercedes, are among five members of the Texas congressional delegation who sent a letter to Obama Tuesday asking him to temporarily halt construction until his administration can review the fence's merits.

CAMBRIA COUNTY, Pa. -- A multi-million-dollar reconstruction plan at the Johnstown Cambria County Airport was carried out so the runway could handle bigger, heavier planes. However, now there is another hangup.

It cost $14.5 million to make the runway strong enough to handle bigger planes, but it's still not meeting FAA standards. Officials said it all comes down to a fence.