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Contractor indicted in alleged scam
A Moreau builder has been indicted on five charges that accuse him of ripping off two customers in Washington County last year and this year -- thefts that nearly cost one of the victims his home, officials said.Thomas B. DuFore, 33, of Gansevoort Road faces felony counts of grand larceny and misappropriation of funds of a trust and a misdemeanor count of petit larceny.He operates DuFore Construction LLC.DuFore was arrested in July by State Police in Washington County after two customers came forward claiming he had taken tens of thousands of dollars from them and not completed the work, State Police Senior Investigator Thomas Aiken said.At one project in Argyle, DuFore is accused of taking $80,000 as partial payment to build a home but not completing the work. He also is accused of taking $52,700 to build an addition to a home in Kingsbury, but failing to complete the work there as well.
Library contractor recommended
Southern Hall County is closer to getting its long-awaited library after the county settled Monday on a construction manager for the project. Scroggs & Grizzel Contracting Inc. submitted the low bid for construction of the $6 million project, County Administrator Jim Shuler told Hall County commissioners at their work session Monday. Project management fees and other contracting fees will cost about $300,000, including a 3.75 percent construction management fee. The board could vote on the matter at its meeting Thursday. Earlier this year, the county purchased 5 acres on Spout Springs Road in Flowery Branch from the developers of Sterling on the Lake, Hall County Commission Chairman Tom Oliver said. The cost was about $100,000 per acre. Crews could start work later this year on the site, which fronts Spout Springs and will be accessed by Lake Sterling Boulevard, the main entrance to the sprawling, upscale subdivision.
Russian outfit tipped as likely winner of Belene nuke plant deal
Russia's AtomStroyExport is the most likely winner of the deal for the construction of Bulgaria's Belene nuclear power plant, on the Danube. That outcome from the selection procedure, which also includes Czech consortium Skoda Alliance, was indirectly confirmed by Thursday's meeting in Paris of Bulgarian economy minister Rumen Ovcharov and Anne Lauvergeon, chairman of the executive board of Areva, an AtomStroyExport subcontractor. Ovcharov himself said that the results form the competition will be announced next week. The Russian press tipped AtomStroyExport as the likelier winner of the contract back in September. Skoda Alliance Wednesday said it has cut to 4 years the timeframe for the completion of the first unit of the new NPP. The tie-in said it expected that Bulgarian power grid operator NEK will pick a contractor for Belene by the end of 2006.
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