Communication Center to Install New Tower

The Cheyenne County Communications Center needs to expand its territory, electronically. To do so, the Communications Center is planning to have a second radio tower constructed adjacent to the current tower.

“It has been at capacity for a while,” Communicators Director Heidi Gillespie said Monday afternoon.

She said the need was made known when companies she worked with while assessing how to include Deuel County dispatching services into Cheyenne County’s system noted there was “almost no real estate” left on the existing tower, Gillespie said. She said she was advised to make a plan to upda...