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bookmark_border$7.7 Million Bridge Project

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Pennsylvania Secretary of Transportation Barry Schoch joined the Montgomery County Commissioners, State Rep. Mike Vereb, and other dignitaries today to kickoff one of the most important bridge replacement projects in Montgomery County in decades.

The brief ceremony launched the $7.7 million, 20-month demolition and replacement of the Arcola Road Bridge, which connects Lower and Upper Providence Townships over the Perkiomen Creek.

The 290-foot bridge, built in 1869 and rebuilt in 1931, was ordered closed by PennDOT on August 16, 2013 for safety reasons. By the time of its closure, the bridge had become a major commuter route for workers in the pharmaceutical companies and office parks clustered between Collegeville and Phoenixville.

Unrivaled cooperation between PennDOT, area legislators, county and local officials managed to advance the construction schedule ahead significantly.

“This critical project has gotten to this point much sooner than many infrastructure projects because of the immense amount of cooperation between levels of government,” said Josh Shapiro, chair of the Montgomery County Commissioners. He specifically commended State Rep. Mike Vereb along with State Sen. John Rafferty, the county’s Department of Assets and Infrastructure, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, the federal Highway Administration and both Lower and Upper Providence Townships.

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Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman and Montgomery County Correctional Facility Warden Julio M Algarin announce the arrest and filing of charges against Raehib Hankerson for Escape from the county correctional facility.

The defendant is and was an inmate being housed at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility on a Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole Violation. The defendant was incarcerated at the correctional facility on August 24, 2014 and was housed in the Community Corrections Center at the time of this incident. On September 1, 2014 the defendant was permitted to participate in outside yard activities. While outside in the secured yard, the defendant was able to manipulate the wire fencing. By doing so, the defendant was able to crawl through the fence and escape outside the correctional facility’s confines. Immediately upon learning of the escape, prison officials contacted the local police and county detectives and a county wide bulletin alert was issued for the defendant.

In response to this incident, local police from Lower Providence, Plymouth, Collegeville, West Norriton as well as Detectives from the Montgomery County Detective Bureau worked together with prison officials in apprehending the defendant. A perimeter was set up and an individual fitting the defendant’s description was seen by Lower Providence Police Chief Francis (Bud) Carroll. Chief Carroll saw the defendant near the wooded area around
Eagleville Road and Ridge Pike in Lower Providence. Plymouth Township Police Officer Jonathan Monaghan and K9 Fox, along with Corporal Matthew Kuhnert, Lower Providence Police Department, were able to locate and apprehend the defendant, who was hiding in the thick brush near the area where he was sighted by Chief Carroll. The defendant was taken into custody without incident and returned to the Montgomery County Correctional Facility
within two and a half hours of his escape.