A pair of local construction companies placed the low bids on road work projects on this end of the province.
Ocean Paving Limited offered the low bid of $277,738 for an asphalt patching and shoulder gravelling project in southern Inverness and Richmond counties. One other company offered a bid.
SW Weeks Contracting offered a low bid of $1,734,777 on a drainage and asphalt concrete patching and repaving work in Linwood and the Pomquet areas. Four other companies bid on the project.