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Sign vendors pitch U.S.‑made Watchfire units after older message centers fail
Summary
Tri State Signs and Watchfire representatives told trustees that the township’s three existing electronic message centers are beyond repair and proposed replacing the cabinets with Watchfire equipment (U.S.‑made) and locally manufactured static faces; Tri State offered a rough estimate of about $42,000 per sign.
Fairfield Township trustees received a vendor presentation Tuesday on three failing municipal electronic message signs and heard a proposal to replace the electronic cabinets with Watchfire units supported by local fabrication for the static sign faces.
Steve Weeks of Tri State Signs told the board the existing signs are no longer repairable and that the original manufacturer provides no effective parts support. “We really can get no support from Stewart signs at all. They are bottom line is they're not repairable,” Weeks…
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