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Bids for street project come in under budget

At a time when the cost of everything appears to be going up, the low bid for New Rockford’s street improvements came in $1 million less than engineers anticipated.

Six companies submitted bids for the paving portion of the project, which was estimated at $7.3 million last fall. Wade Senger of Interstate Engineering reported at the Monday, April 4 city commission meeting, “There was a lot o...