Scott Swanson
A serpentine pile of gravel down the center of 29th Avenue last week represented what could be a new approach to fixing streets in Sweet Home: chip sealing.
Thursday morning, Aug. 20, a street sweeper rolled slowly down 29th, sucking up the loose crushed rock after an application of layers of quarter- and eighth-inch gravel pressed into asphalt emulsion that had been spread on the street.
It’s the first complete resurfacing of a…