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Just a couple things i'd like to say, as i've been away from here for nearly a week. My road didn't happen to be in such bad shape as some apparently were last weekend. I don't know how the road employees are paid for working days off until I read these last posts upon my return, but I think that is between the employee and the employer, I was not the one to bring that up. I will say THANK YOU county boys for the work you did last Sunday, i'm sure it was very much appreciated by the rural people whom got the worst out of that storm.
Now, upon my return, my neighbor has told me that he heard anger and foul language over the county radio on last Sunday, and i'm not saying who said what because it wasn't me that heard it, but from what I was told, it was very inappropriate language that he heard on his scanner. I'm sure he was NOT the only person in the county with a scanner that heard the same thing. Don't know who or what that language was directed at, but it should not have been over the radio!!!!!

HMMMM.........Wonder how many of you would just want to suck it up and go on if you could not go east or west on 160 to Dr's. appointments or shopping, or couldn't go north or south on 99 for the same reasons because the roads were full of big holes that were nearly impossible to go around or through in your car? I bet plenty of you would be after the state crews to get things fixed up in good fashion so you could travel them like you always have. And I'd bet oldfart would say that sucking it up and getting on is a little hard to do after realizing he was lied to by his boss and the elected comissioners about being 'layed off' for the winter, but he has NO choice because no one seems to care about some of your own elk countians!

MR. kshillbillys, I have NOT stated I live IN Elk Falls, rather that vicinity, and I HAVE lived in Elk county ALL my life, not always at my present location. I DO NOT travel rd.18 from Elk Falls to Howard, I take the hiway. I have NOT been in the vicinity of rd.18 and turkey in MANY years, so don't know what condition THAT may have been in. (I have looked at an Elk county road map), and that would be near Greenwood county line. I have always called the road from Elk Falls to Howard the lake road.
I have NOT made ANY comments on the previous road boss, that was made by hhjacobs. My comment to his post is that I remember gravel AND repairs being used and made all the time on our county roads. There DID used to be a windrow of gravel at one edge or the other on most roads in the past, but as I recollect, when a certain comissioner got elected into place, they saw to it that windrow was NOT left on the edge anymore, but rather left in place on the roads so water could run off to the ditches, a good idea. But we USED to have crowns on our roads also, which have disappeared leaving the road a place for water to stand! And I notice soft spots on roads even when it's DRY, which become rutty when wet. A couple weeks ago I took Piedmont rd. from 400 to Rock rd. and east to 99, just to see what condition that was in. NOT GOOD! Would have been easier to travel in my truck than my car, will NOT take my car on that one again anytime soon. And I was taught NOT to accuse someone of being a LIAR unless you have proof to back it up!

angtown3,If you are NOT concerned about how your tax dollars are used, whether it's for wastefulness or benefit, that's YOUR problem. I was taught NOT to be wasteful. I have NOT gotten into the school situation deal because I feel that's up to you younger generation whose children are attending our school district. I PRAISE you for attending those meetings out of your concerns on the matter. I voted on the school bond issue, as i'm sure you did also, and we may or may not have had the same opinion on it. I have helped in MANY clubs in our communities over my years as an elk county citizen, and I hope to think it was appreciated as is your own. If you can't stand stand to view others opinions for our county, then why do you keep coming back reading any of them? EVERYONE is entitled to their opinion, and everyones is NOT going to be the same. Would you keep buying your children the same brand of shoe, only to have it fall apart shortly after purchase? Or would you want to make a change next purchase? Would you keep having the same person reroof your home, only to have it leak the next rain? Or would you maybe go a different route?

peanut, 'what you don't see is us doing exactly what you thought was a good idea all summer long last year'???
Don't know who you are acusing me of being, but I don't know you and don't plan to PRETEND I do! Don't even know where rd. 18 s. of turkey and s. of junebug even are without hunting up an elk county map and looking, but they are not roads I travel. I am however fully aware that fixing our roads is VERY time consuming AND weather dictated. My concern is that your time and taxpayers money is a waste when the roads are a temporary fix when weather permits. A lot of them i've traveled that you have put rock on the last few weeks no longer has signs of that rock now because we got another rain and it has simply disappeared leaving the same problem as before you put all that rock on it. I am NOT running down YOU, or your work,you do what the boss says, so you see, the BOSS is where the problem lies on fixing our counties roads, and my opionion, he must not be doing it right the first time or most of these places would NOT be needing attention AGAIN! And I am left to assume our elected comissioners don't see things for what they are either, or change would be made.

AMEN! Varmit and srkruzich actually get the whole picture and understand.

Well Peanut, maybe in the meantime, the boss'll be thinking up a way to fix them roads that'll be more than temporary! LOL we can only hope!

Yep! Just what I thought was gonna happen HAS. The first little rain came along and all the boys steady work at hauling and dumping etc last week or so, the rock is sinking out of place in them bad areas, and the ruts are back! Now time to start all over again I reckon, sad part of it is, the boss may know how to operate all the equipment, but what good is that if he doesn't know how to use it in the proper way to benefit these roads? Elk county does not have enough rock to get these roads back up in good shape!

At will employeer........I have heard of that. I don't understand our commissioners though, they hired a road boss and they were told of his verbal abuse with employees, yet they did nothing but let him get rid of some while he stayed on? That is just not kosher in my book! And these are our elected officials representing our county and watching out for our best interests? Man the world is messed up these days!  REALLY messed up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My OH My! Are you telling me that the week before 2 employess of our county road department were laid off, another person was hired? What are the commissioners thinking on things like that going on? And they told the 2 laid off fellows that the road boss had hired too many people? Something is VERY wrong with this whole picture. Now i'm really going to DIG!!

ELK FALLS is the place to be, ain't no people any better than the Friends of Elk Falls! We have a very quaint little town away from the hustle bustle of things these days, and our outhouse tour festival every November is the best time! Yeah, where is that stop light? LOL