{"id":498490,"date":"2026-02-25T12:04:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T12:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/498490\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T12:04:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T12:04:26","slug":"city-of-st-johns-hires-private-contractors-to-assist-with-snowclearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/498490\/","title":{"rendered":"City of St. John\u2019s Hires Private Contractors to Assist with Snowclearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/snow-blower-kenmount-road-2.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"City of St. John's Hires Private Contractors to Assist with Snowclearing\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A snow blower on Kenmount Road (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>The capital city has awarded $3.5 million in contracts to private companies to assist city crews in clearing roads in a number of neighbourhoods.  <\/p>\n<p>The city has awarded a $1.5 million contract to clear roads in Southlands, another $1.2 million contract has been awarded for Kenmount Terrace and an $800,000 contract has been awarded to help clear Airport Heights including the Ann Jeannette subdivision.<\/p>\n<p>The city says work has already started and it\u2019s hoped that all roads will be cleared and widened by Sunday, March 1, barring any further snowfalls. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; A snow blower on Kenmount Road (VOCM News) The capital city has awarded $3.5 million in contracts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-498490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}