Letter To The Editor: Concerns over condition of Road 8 still growing

Dear Editor,

Stateliner’s Extension Club would like to thank Sidney High School student Kade Price for demonstrating strong leadership and citizenship by expressing his concerns about Road 8 to the Cheyenne County Commissioners at their April 20 meeting.

Our club members are quite familiar with the decaying condition of Road 8 since we travel it, or part of it going to and from home, shopping or working in Sidney, visiting neighbors and attending Stateliner’s meetings.

The opening question at any meeting along the Road 8 route the past few years has been “OK, who hit the biggest pot hole tonight?”

Other speakers at that meeting brought up other issues with road maintenance in other parts of the county and the commissioners listened and have responded with a hearing scheduled for Monday, May 4 at 10:30 a.m. at the Commissioners’ Room at the courthouse “for the purpose of hearing support, opposition, criticism, suggestions or observations relating to the Cheyenne County One and Six Year Proposed Highway Improvement Program.”

Stateliner’s would like to encourage all interested residents to attend the hearing. Bad roads are more than an inconvenience; they are a safety hazard and increase the cost of operating and maintaining a vehicle.

Sharon F. Fehringer

Sidney