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This weekly email searches main media outlets finding stories that may be of interest to contractors in the fencing and access control industry. It is published by de facto, inc., which also publishes fencebids.

Industry News

M&M Timber, now part of the Forest Garden group, has recently launched its new sales and marketing strategy to focus on growth of its round timber product range.
The Construction Index - Jul 29, 2014
With M&M's fresh new corporate identity and product logos launched only last week, the company is all set for a bumper year ahead. Now focussing on its core range of round timbers for the agricultural, landscaping and play industries, the company is also currently embarking on an investment programme. ....

Scientists have come up with a way of using noise cancelling technology for acoustic barriers alongside roads and railway lines
The Construction Index - Jul 29, 2014
Sonobex Limited, a newly formed spin-out from Loughborough University, has funding from the Technology Strategy Board, to bring its SonoBarrier acoustic fences to market. The first CE mark prototypes are expected to be produced by February 2015, the company says. ....

Local Government Issues

Electric Fence has political jolt in St. Petersburg
Tampa Bay Times - Aug 1, 2014
The electric fence around Tibbetts Lumber Co. has been unplugged for months. Politically, though, the lumberyard partially owned by powerful State Sen. Jeff Brandes is still buzzing. ....

George Washington Bridge suicide prevention fence will cost $50M
New York Post - Jul 31, 2014
The Port Authority is planning to construct a 9-foot “suicide fence” on the George Washington Bridge at a cost of nearly $50 million to stop the spate of jumpers......

Landowner told to move fence out of county right-of-way
Independent Record - Aug 3, 2014
A property owner at the intersection of Lincoln Road and Green Meadow Drive will be required to move his fence for ongoing roadwork.....

Community Issues

Rail Trail neighbors want good fences
Cape Cod Times - Aug 4, 2014
SOUTH YARMOUTH — Beacon Street property owners along the planned Cape Cod Rail Trail extension are at odds with state officials over what they say is a broken promise to provide their stretch with an 8-foot-high stockade fence....

Parents upset about large fencing at public park
First Coast News - jujl 29, 2014
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- It is a public park, but there are hundreds of feet of new fencing around popular soccer fields and that's got parents upset. Some are claiming they're loosing access.....

Army extends comment period in disputed plan to fence off part of Silver Spring hiking trail
The Republic - Aug 1, 2014
SILVER SPRING, Maryland — The Army Corps of Engineers is giving people more time to comment on a disputed plan to fence off part of a popular Silver Spring running trail near an old Army landfill.....

Fencing and Animal - Wildlife

Landers: More thoughtful fence building helps keep critters safe
Spokesman Review - Jul 31, 2014
Fences are not natural to wildlife. Although Northwest critters have lived among fences for more than a century, they still run into them. They snag legs and other body parts on barbed-wire or metal posts. They detour around them and get ambushed by predators,....

Electric fences used to keep bears away
Western News - Aug 1, 2014
Electric fences are now being used to ward off bears in Lincoln County – and for Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks’ bear management specialist Kim Annis, the fences are an effective way to prevent conflicts with people.....

Railroads

City says fence along Corner railroad tracks is safety necessity, but some are skeptical
C-Ville - Jul 30, 2014
It’s a humid July day, and UVA fourth-year Henry Ilnicky just wants a sandwich. From where he’s standing on 15th Street, Ilnicky could walk under a train trestle and through a third of a mile of busy Corner streets to reach his destination...

USA/Mexico Border Fence

Rains, Smugglers Damage US-Mexico Border Fence
ABC News - Jul 30, 2014
U.S. Border Patrol officials said Wednesday that agents discovered a garage-sized hole through a steel fence that divides the United States and Mexico just east of Nogales, Arizona......

International Borders

Hi-Tech Moroccan Border Fence Angers Algeria
Morocco World News - Aug 1, 2014
French TV channel France 24, exploring the effect of the fence on Algeria, has reported that Algeria is “angered” by Morocco’s new strategy to protect its borders. According to the French TV channel, the Algerian authorities consider the Moroccan measure to be an “accusation” against Algeria as being a regional exporter of terrorism.......

Russian border fence divides Georgia and South Ossetia
EuroNews - Jul 29, 2014
People living along the disputed border between Georgia and South Ossetia say a Russian constructed fence is dividing communities and separating people from their families and property......

Weird News

Chile Releases Official Study on UFO Photos
Huffington Post - Jul 6, 2014
The government office investigating UFOs in Chile has released an analysis of two high quality photos showing what appear be genuine unidentified flying objects above a remote copper mine. The office, known as the CEFAA (Committee for the Studies of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena).....