By Editor | April 14, 2021 By MARK EVANS mevans@stegenherald.com Presiding Commissioner Garry Nelson stressed to road and bridge foreman Scott Schmieder that the entire Lawrenceton Cutoff Road project needs to be started and completed before asphalt prices start rising. While he doesn’t expect problems getting the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) permit to do the intersection of Highway Y and Roth Road (which turns into Lawrenceton Cutoff Road), Nelson suggested having “a back-up plan.” That could include starting on the Highway C side of the bridge to pave. According to the MoDOT Asphalt Price Indexing, the price of asphalt per liquid tonnage could jump by nearly 10 percent from April to May and another 25 percent from May to June.