Article: United states : Stimulus funds lend hand to construction, projects.

Lifelong Kinston resident Ann Hardison works at the Little J s Subs and Pizza Restaurant on U.S. 258, just down the highway from where a major highway construction project is getting under way, courtesy of $42.9 million in federal stimulus funds.

She s hopeful that the construction of the Harvey Parkway extension, a four-mile multi-lane highway from where the parkway currently ends at U.S. 258 to U.S. 70, will end up helping the nearby Global TransPark grow and be a boost to the area s economy .

I m a little skeptical, Hardison said on a recent weekday afternoon. I don t want to be a pessimist, but I worry about it.

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