March 16, 2023
By: Dwayne Page
Barnes Mill Road has gotten a makeover!
Tinsley Asphalt Company of Tullahoma is about to complete a paving project there under a contract with the DeKalb County Highway Department.
Road Supervisor Danny Hale said 2.1 miles of Barnes Mill Road has been widened and repaved. The cost of the project is $404,000 funded from the local road department budget.
“We have widened the road to 19 feet and we are repaving the road. I wanted to do it last year but we didn’t have the funds at that time because we were paving the Corinth Church Road and Moores College Road. After the new budget rolled over and we had the money the contractors were tied up. Everything has finally come together, and we are getting it paved,” said Road Supervisor Hale.
“Tinsley usually gets the bid on our paving because we don’t have a paving machine and we have to contract it out. We have paved 2.1 miles of Barnes Mill Road. About one mile of the road in from Jefferson Road had already been paved (during a previous administration) but it was rough from there on out so we picked up the paving from there and went to the end of the road to Highway 288 (Belk Road) in the Antioch community,” said Road Supervisor Hale.