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Bridge construction on New Bern road to prompt detour

PRE News & Ideas | By George Olsen
Published September 2, 2013 at 6:06 AM EDT

INTRO – Some New Bern area travelers may hit a detour starting Tuesday. George Olsen has more.

A 59-year-old bridge over Brices Creek on County Line Road south of New Bern is considered by the state Department of Transportation to be functionally obsolete… specifically its lane width is not up to current standards. Work starts Tuesday (Sept. 3) to replace the bridge, meaning those who travel that way will face a signed detour until the bridge work is finished. S.T. Wooten of Wilson received the $797,000 contract to replace the bridge. Work is expected to be finished by December 1. I’m George Olsen.
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George Olsen
George Olsen is a 1977 Havelock High School graduate. He received his B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from the University of South Carolina in 1982 where he got his first taste of non-commercial radio working for their student station WUSC. After graduation he worked about five years in commercial radio before coming to work at Public Radio East where he has remained since outside of a nearly 3-year stint as jazz and operations coordinator at WUAL in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in the early 1990s. On his return to eastern North Carolina he hosted classical music for Public Radio East before moving into the Morning Edition host position and now can be heard on All Things Considered. He also hosts and produces The Sound, five hours of Americana, Roots Rock and Contemporary Folk weekday evenings on PRE Public Radio East News & Ideas, and is a news and feature producer for Public Radio East.
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