by Jim Schwartz

Target Date for the completion of the Highway 50 project between Highways 371 and 71 is July 1, 2005, according to information from the Cass County Highway Department. If that deadline is not met, the contractor is subject to fines until all work is done.

The upgrading of Highway 71 has been put on hold for 2001 and possibly 2006 as well, due to a shortage of funding. The Highway Department reports, however, that the road will get a coating of gravel and an application of calcium chloride as soon as the weather conditions permit.