Stalled U.S. 35 project leaves couple in limbo: ; Pair say they have not received estimate for land along proposed route

A South Charleston couple said they are in limbo after the statebacked out of a deal to buy 92 acres of land from them to build thenow-stalled U.S. 35. The drama over how the state planned toconstruct the final 14.6-mile stretch of new four-lane highway inMason and Putnam counties took many twists and turns in the pastyear, going so far as the state Supreme Court. After a proposal toshore up the projects financing died in the Legislature in March,officials were forced to let the bid for construction expire,essentially killing the project for now. But that left stateofficials with another problem: What to do with all of the propertyalong that stretch that they had …