February 2013, construction has started on
the last section of the four-lane highway to
Cook from Viriginia. This section of ten miles,
from mile marker 82 to 92 at the City of Cook.
KGM Construction of Angora has the
contract. Their headquarters are at Sherman's
Corner five miles south of Cook at the
intersection of highway 53 and highways 1 and
22. They also constructed the ten miles of new
four-lane Highway 53, ten miles from north
of Virginia to the Muuska Mountain, a few years
ago. They did a
wonderfull job on this section of the highway, it is the
nicest road in our area.
KGM was started
by the childen of Forrest Abramson of Orr and is
operated by
Karla,
Gary,
Mark and
Kerry, thus
KGM. They
hire a lot of local poeple so that is a great
benefit to the area.
Karla passed away
on March 28, 2013 at the age of 52.
Check this
information from the Minnesota Department of
Transportation web site.
Map of the future road
The
new four-lane at Sherman's Corner
(Highway 22 intersection, west to
Highway 73) |
