Commissioners consider more road vacations

A proposal for three more road vacations from the county system was accepted for consideration by county commissioners Monday and posted for a public hearing March 4. Public Works Director Mark Storey in presenting the proposals to the commission said two of the proposals evolved out of the discovery of what he called remnants of roads which were still on the books.

Two of the three segments are not actually charted as roads on the county’s official map. They involve early day roads which were absorbed by subsequent changes at the stateline where Highway 274 runs east of Tekoa to the grain ele...