WEST VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION DIVISION OF HIGHWAYS NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Bids will be received electronically by the West Virginia Department of Transportation Division of Highways through the Bid Express Bidding Service (www.bidx.com) and by sealed proposals (only when prequalification is waived) being received at its office in Building 5, Room 843, 1900 Kanawha Boulevard East, Charleston, West Virginia until A May 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM (Eastern Standard Time). The bids will be downloaded and/or opened and read publicly thereafter for the constructions of the following project(s): CALL: 029 CONTRACT: 2020000598 STATE PROJECT: S329-10-0.02 00 FEDERAL PROJECT: STP-0010(286)D DESCRIPTION: CONTWRKTYP CHARLES MILAR BR MIDPOINT COUNTY: MINERAL BRIDGE: 11772 BRIDGECLASS SPAN(S): STRUCTURE STEEL: DBE GOAL: 8% OF CONTRACT BID AMOUNT. BIDDER MUST PROVIDE WRITTEN ASSURANCE OF MEETING GOAL ON FORM IN PROPOSAL REMARKS: Proposals will be received from prequalified and West Virginia licensed contractors only except that on Federal-Aid Projects a contractors’ license is not required at time of bid, but will be required before work can begin. Registration is required with the Department of Administration, Division of Purchasing, in accordance with Chapter 5A, Article 3, Section 12 of the West Virginia Code. All contractors submitting bids on project(s) must submit electronically with their bid a Proposal Guaranty Bond for $500.00 or 5% of the total bid, whichever is greater. The West Virginia Department of Transportation Division of Highways reserves the right to defer, delay or postpone the date for receiving and publicly opening proposals for any project designated in this advertisement, without the necessity of renewing such advertisement. The deferment, delay, postponement, and the date that proposals will be received and publicly opened will be available on www.bidx.com. The West Virginia Department of Transportation Division of Highways hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively ensure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, minority business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex or national origin in consideration for an award. LC-243084 04-17;2025
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF PUTNAM COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA CASE NO.: 2025-C-69 PROJECT NO. U340-34/14-0.01 00; STPTMA-0034(901)D PARCEL NO. 71 WEST VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, DIVISION OF HIGHWAYS, Petitioner, v. UNKNOWN HEIRS OF LEE HAROLD LINKFIELD, owner, its successors and/or assigns; and SHERIFF OF PUTNAM COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA. Respondents. ORDER OF PUBLICATION AND NOTICE OF CONDEMNATION PROCEEDINGS To the Above-Named Respondents and other lawful claimants: The object of the above proceeding is to condemn certain property of the Respondents, or in which the Respondents have an interest, for public purposes for a roadway, designated as Project No. U340-34/14-0.01 00; STPTMA-0034(901)D, the property proposed to be condemned being a part of Parcel No. 71 of the Project, as designated in the set of plans or maps for the project available for review in the DOH offices of District 1 located in Charleston, West Virginia. The property to be condemned for the purpose aforesaid is situated in Putnam County, West Virginia, and is described as follows: NONCONTROLLED ACCESS RIGHT OF WAY BEGINNING at a point in the eastern existing right of way line of Putnam County Route 34/14 (Mount Vernon Road), said point being in the eastern proposed noncontrolled access right of way line of Putnam County Route 34/14 (Mount Vernon Road), said point being 26 feet radially left of Putnam County Route 34/14 (Mount Vernon Road) centerline at Station 178+84, Project U340-34/14-0.01 00, STPTMA-0034(901)DTC, Putnam County, West Virginia; thence, southeasterly, with said proposed noncontrolled access right of way line 10 feet, more or less, to a point 26 feet radially left of centerline at Station 178+92; thence, southerly, continuing with said proposed noncontrolled access right of way line 42 feet, more or less, to a point in the division line between Gerald M. Gomoll, et ux. and Heirs of Lee Harold Linkfield, said point being 25 feet left of and at right angle to centerline at Station 179+27; thence, westerly, with said division line 6 feet, more or less, to a point in the existing right of way line, said point being 19 feet left of and at right angle to centerline at Station 179+27; thence, northerly, meandering with said existing right of way line 52 feet, more or less, to the place of beginning and containing 211 square feet, more or less. The tract of land hereinabove described is a portion of that same real estate conveyed unto Mickey White Linkfield, from May Call Davis, unmarried, by deed dated November 23, 1968, of record in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Putnam County, West Virginia, in Deed Book 172, at Page 91. The said Mickey W. Linkfield died testate on June 1, 2010, and by the terms of her Last Will and Testament, dated April 24, 1982, of record in the aforesaid Clerk’s Office, in Will Book 50, at Page 368, interest in said real estate was devised unto her husband Lee. H. Linkfield. The said Lee Harold Linkfield died intestate on or about February 12, 2011, and his heirs are unknown. The above-named Respondents are hereby notified: 1. that the above-styled condemnation proceeding was instituted in the Circuit Court of Putnam County on or about March 28, 2025, to take and appropriate the above-described property for the purposes aforesaid; 2. that you may serve upon Petitioner’s Counsel (Tonya Shuler of Litchfield Cavo LLP, 8 Capitol Street Floor 4, Charleston, West Virginia 25301) an answer to the Petition filed herein; 3. that a copy of the Petition may be obtained from the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Putnam County; 4. that you must appear and defend on or before May 31, 2025; otherwise, judgment may be rendered against you; 5. that Land Commissioners may be selected, whose purpose will be to determine just compensation for the land proposed to be taken and for damages, if any, to the residue, and 6. that any and all other proceedings may be held and had as may be proper, at which time and place you, and each of you, are hereby notified to be present to protect your interests in said proceeding. Dated this 11th day of April, 2025. ATTEST: Stephanie Smith, Clerk Circuit Court of Putnam County, West Virginia LH-243296 04-17,24;2025