Washington officials are trying to recover more than $1 million the city says it spent to demolish an apartment building whose partial collapse last summer trapped a tenant for more than nine hours.The city filed a writ Oct. 13 in Washington County Court seeking a judgment of almost $1.16 ...
Barber Steven Layton lost his whole business this summer when its former home on North Main Street partially collapsed.But he kept his resolve to stay in the neighborhood.“I was not going to leave Main Street,” Layton, 52, said as he sat in his tidy shop, now in the basement of the ...
Barber Steven Layton lost his whole business this summer when its former home on North Main Street partially collapsed.But he kept his resolve to stay in the neighborhood.“I was not going to leave Main Street,” Layton, 52, said as he sat in his tidy shop, now in the basement of the ...
The summary trial for two building owners, who face multiple citations related to conditions at the Washington apartment building that collapsed in July, trapping a resident for more than nine hours, has been continued for a fifth time.Mark Russo of Washington and his sister, Melissa Russo of ...
The first phase of a methodical building demolition concluded Tuesday, allowing a section of North Main Street in Washington to reopen to traffic.“There’s still a good portion of that building that needs to come down, but now we feel like it’s at a place where it’s not going to do any ...
A section of a heavily traveled Washington street could reopen early next week.North Main Street has been closed to through-traffic from Beau to Chestnut streets since the collapse of the building at 15 N. Main. Officials were concerned about the instability of the portion of the building that ...
