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At their Tuesday meeting, the Sheridan County Commission is scheduled to consider a resolution for a Notice of Intent to amend the rules and regulations for permitting commercial solar energy facilities. Also on the agenda for the meeting is consideration of acceptance of FY 2020-21 Financial and

Federal funding sought for a possible roundabout

SALT LAKE COUNTY, Utah, Nov. 3, 2021 (Gephardt Daily) -- Nearly $20 million in improvements are being planned for Upper Mill Creek Canyon. Salt Lake County received $15.3 million in funding, with a local match of $4.2 million required, through the Federal Lands Access Program to make needed improvements to the upper 4.5 miles of […]

Johnson County's Commissioners have accepted agreements for a Federal Lands Access Program (FLAP) grant concerning road reconstruction in Crazy Woman Canyon. County Road & Bridge Supervisor Scott Pehringer said there is a Memorandum of Agreement between Federal Highway Administration, Central

RIDGEFIELD — The city’s growing trail network will add a key connector in the next couple of years.

Travel any distance on state or county highways and you will find sections under re-construction which prompted Vilas County Highway Commissioner Troy

Wyoming and Idaho have moved one step closer to completing a pathway over Teton Pass that could connect networks in both states. A federal grant of $1.3 million to the City of Victor will pay for construction of almost two miles of paved pathway from Moose Creek in Idaho east to the Wyoming state line. That leaves just six more miles of pathway to build on the west side of Teton Pass, which would then connect to the two Teton community pathway systems at the pass summit. Officials and supporter...

Planning to head to Nevada’s Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park? Better hurry, as the park is closing for the spring and summer due to road repairs. Nevada State Parks announced Wednesday that the park will close April 29 for road repairs and will likely remain closed through the summer. The closure includes the ghost town, campground, picnic area and fossil shelter. The park contains a ghost town built in the 1890s that is preserved in a state of arrested decay, with interpretive trails that tell...

Johnson County accepted federal funding for work that will be completed on the road in Crazy Woman Canyon. The $3.4 million project, through the Federal Lands Access Program, or FLAP, is explained further by County Road & Bridge Supervisor Scott Pehringer. Pehringer said at an earlier meeting that the county applied for about $2.1 million in FLAP funding, which will require a $205,000 local match, which will come from materials and about $100,000 from the Road & Bridge budget. The project is ex...

Public Health Director Andrea Carlstrom told commissioners Monday, during the Chaffee County work session, that she has been asked to be on the state board of health. Carlstrom said she had a meeting with the state this week to find out more of what that would entail, and said it was quite an honor. She delivered a report to the commissioners, meeting as the county board of health, detailing the most recent COVID-19 vaccination rates. Chaffee County was recently fifth in the state for total dos...