Longer hours approved for Front Street project

Construction crews operating on the Front Street improvement project can now work until midnight six days a week.

Members of the Borough Assembly, acting as the Board of Adjustments, voted unanimously March 22 to allow construction to occur from 6 a.m. to midnight Monday through Saturday.

The Board of Adjustments approval does include stipulations, however, including prohibiting the use of large and noisy chipping machinery past 9 p.m.

In January, McGraw Custom Construction requested a variance to the city’s noise ordinance in order to allow crews to work longer days on the road and utility im...