Commission stands firm on refusing to add to county maintenance roster

The answer is still no, the commissioners told two local residents last week.

The county will not be adding any more miles of road to the 600 already maintained, they said, because it cannot afford to do so.

Scott Pomerenke and Eric Akola approached the commissioners to ask them to reconsider adding a quarter mile of Old Sundance Road in the area where it meets Beaver Creek Road to the route of the county's snowplows.

This request was originally made in August, on the basis that snow tends to build up in a certain spot and it's difficult for landowners to push it far enough off the road to cle...