NEWS BRIEFS: Brief closures set on Hood Canal Bridge through Friday … and other items

SHINE — The Hood Canal Bridge will be closed to vehicular traffic several times each night through Friday.

The state Department of Transportation announced the closures Tuesday.

The closures will be between 11 p.m. and 4 a.m. tonight and Thursday morning, Thursday night and Friday morning, and Friday night and Saturday morning.

During the five-hour closure times, crews will open the bridge to traffic for at least 30 minutes several times to ease congestion.

The traffic openings will be unscheduled and performed as workloads allow.

Depending on work progress, additional night closures might be scheduled.

The construction work and closures are dependent on the tides and might be adjusted.

“Drivers are advised to assume that the bridge will be largely unavailable for use,” Transportation said in a news release.

Construction crews are replacing mechanical components of the drawspan.

Drivers can get information at www.wsdot.com/ traffic/hoodcanal.

To receive email updates, go to service.govdelivery.com/accounts/WADOT/ subscriber/new. To receive text message, send a text message to 468311 with the words “wsdot hood.” Information is also on Twitter.

Library board moves meet to Sequim

SEQUIM — The North Olympic Library System trustees will meet Thursday in Sequim instead of Clallam Bay as was originally planned.

The meeting was relocated because of the death of Trustee Robert Streett in a car wreck earlier this month.

Streett and his son, Robby, died after a car driven by a Mancos, Colo., man crossed the center line and hit the family’s car near Durango, Colo.

Instead of meeting in Clallam Bay and hearing a report on West End libraries, the trustees will meet at 5:30 p.m. in the Sequim Library, 630 N. Sequim Ave.

The trustees will consider revisions to policies for library cards; borrowing privileges; penalties for overdue, lost or damaged materials; and surplus materials.

The agenda is at www.nols.org/about-nols/board-administration.html.

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