NORWAY – Alternating sides of Main Street will be closed to overnight parking from July 28 to 31 to prepare for new pavement.

During the day there will be regular parking.

The parking ban will run from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. on the Opera House side of Main Street on July 28 and 29. The ban will stretch from the American Legion Hall to the bridge at the head of Norway Lake.

Overnight parking will be banned on the opposite side of Main Street on July 30 and 31 from the Guy E. Rowe School to the bridge at the head of the lake.

Norway police have warned that violators will be towed at their own expense.

Road Commissioner Ron Springer said the closing will allow workers to take more than an inch of pavement off the road in preparation for resurfacing. The milling process will leave the surface rough, he said.

“That’s what the hot top is going to stick to when they pave it,” Springer said. “They plan to start at the bridge and come down to the Guy E. Rowe intersection. They will do the driving lanes first to get the pitch they need.

“There will be some ridges to ride over, but it is necessary,” he said.

Springer said there will be several days of work left after the milling to get the road ready for paving. Road crews are currently taking covers and rings off the manhole covers and putting a steel plate the over hole. The area around the manhole covers will be filled with gravel to accommodate the milling process.

“They have to be repaired when the milling is over,” Springer said. “They have to be brought back to the proper height before paving.”

Springer said he was unsure of when the paving would begin.

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