County roads, bridges slated for improvements

Several county roads will see improvements this year.

At Monday’s meeting, the Cheyenne County board of commissioners approved the county highway department’s one and six year road improvement plans. A previously completed project in the plan includes a box culvert replacement at Rd. 139 northwest of Lodgepole on Weyerts Rd. This project was finished this spring.

The box culvert washed out in a storm in 2010.

Improvement plans for this year include asphalt to be ground and imbedded on Rd 109 at a cost of around $14,000. A little less than a mile stretch on Rd. 105 north of Rd. 32 nor...