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Monday, January 18, 2016
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Ball fields getting new lights
Howe Youth Baseball's Past Presidents Kent Akins and Scott Thurman had big dreams of rejuvenating the two fields known as Hash Field (10U) and North Field (14U). The area was once known as Bi-Centennial Park due to its creation in 1976. The name never caught on, but the baseball did.
lights from 126 to 60, but would be more lighting from the Standard Metal Halide (MH) lights to be installed. Also the study by Techline showed that the lighting angles will be adjusted for maximum coverage. The North Field will be the same level of lighting as a high school baseball field, whereas, Hash Field will be the exact amount needed for 10 Last March, Thurman contacted the and under play. city for help in upgrading the feeble lighting at the two ball fields. The total cost for the lighting came to $18,000 and was funded by the He contacted Techline in Van Howe Development Alliance's 4B Alstyne to have a study done on the Corporation. The new lighting will lighting and the cost effectiveness save 65 percent in electricity cost of a full replacement project. The per year which would lower the study showed that the fields annual cost of lighting from currently have 126 Tungsten $10,000 to roughly $3,300. That Halogen Quartz lights at 1500 equates to the investment paying watts each. The new upgrade will off in three years. GCEC is be a reduction in the number of providing the installation.
Planning and Zoning to hear rezoning issue of Howe's "hotel" tonight The hotel at the end of Downtown Howe is better known as the apartments that sit on the northeast corner of the historic commercial district. Owner M.E. Curtis has requested a zoning change from C-1 (commercial) to MF (multi-family residential). Nearly 20 years ago, the City of Howe's Planning and Zoning Commission designated
the property as a hotel which kept the zoning as commercial property in the area designed for commercial business. Curtis is seeking the zoning change in tonight's public hearing at 700 W. Haning St at 7pm. The building that once housed several grocery stores now has nine units fully occupied with renters.
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