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Tecumseh City Council approves new school resource officer

The Daily Telegram TECUMSEH — The Tecumseh City Council unanimously approved a contract with Stevens Disposal & Recycling Service Monday after a compromise to make use of the 96-gallon totes optional. The trash contract eliminates the 96-gallon totes for recycling and gives each homeowner the option of getting the 96-gallon tote for trash. Trash bags will continue to be picked up from the curb. The 18-gallon recycling bins will continue to be picked up once a week. The charge per unit for the carts has gone down from the original price of $1.90 per unit to 50 cents per unit, per month. Th...

Tecumseh planning to sell bonds to fund city projects, purchases The Daily Telegram TECUMSEH — With some large expenses coming up and interest rates being low, Tecumseh city officials are planning to sell up to $3 million in bonds.  Among the projects the bond issue would fund are the purchase of a fire truck, improvements to the Standish Dam and spillway, replacement of the boiler and heating and cooling system at the Tecumseh Center for the Arts, replacement of the roof and remodeling portions of city hall, and expansion of Brookside Cemetery including installation of a road.  The ...

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 doses of COVID-19 administered to county residents per 100,000 people. The board also heard a Departmen...