Avalon Police arrested their second drunk bicyclist in as many weeks after coming across a man on Jackman Avenue, tangled in his bicycle, on Sept. 3. David Lorenzo, 53, of Jefferson Avenue, Bellevue, was charged with driving under the influence.

Police were able to find and arrest a man who confessed to stealing construction materials from beneath the Birmingham Avenue bridge when a witness got the license number of the truck used in the theft. Police say that James Rickard, 36, of Washington Avenue, Bellevue, had stolen tools and materials valued at $1,500 on Sept. 2.

A project to rehabilitate the bridge that carries that carries Route 65 (Ohio River Boulevard) over Birmingham Avenue in Avalon will begin on Tuesday, May 31.

To allow the work to occur, traffic on Route 65 will be reduced to a single, 10-foot wide lane in each direction between Harrison and Elizabeth avenues beginning at approximately 7 a.m. on Tuesday through late November. Restrictions will resume next spring with the overall project completed in June 2012.

Motorists who travel Route 65 can add one more traffic headache to their lists. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) is expected to begin work on the South Birmingham Avenue Bridge this summer.

Avalon borough manager harry Dilmore said that work is expected to begin June 11. The highway will be reduced to one 10-feet lane in each direction, he said.

Avalon officials are trying to work out a compromise in a parking dispute that is impacting a number of California Avenue businesses.

Council member Dan Sefick said that the automotive repair shop has been parking vehicles at metered, on-street parking spaces from the Birmingham Avenue intersection to McDonald-Linn Funeral Home, which has drawn complaints from other businesses in the block whose customers cannot find a place to park.

Sefick said that money is put in all the meters.

At least part of the Birmingham Avenue steps in Avalon will be repaired.

The steps and sidewalk were closed by the borough due to advanced deterioration. The cost and engineering challenge presented by any proposal to replace the steps has kept the borough from moving forward in that direction. Recently, however, the owner of rental property adjacent to the top part of the steps and sidewalk said that her tenants have no access to their home because of the closure.

Witnesses told police on July 1 that they had observed a man urinating on the wall of the church near the borough hall on California Avenue. Daniel Starkey, 46, of California Avenue, was charged with disorderly conduct.

William Lamb, 25, of Pittsburgh 15205, was charged with public drunkenness after police found him passed out on a lawn on McKinley Avenue on July 3.

A license plate was reported stolen July 2 from a vehicle belonging to Avalon Pharmacy.

A vehicle owned by a Pittsburgh resident was reported stolen from Avalon on July 6.

About a dozen people remain excluded from their apartments in a South Birmingham Avenue building after a water pipe break last saturday caused to building to be condemned.