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Ute Mountain Ute Tribe Receives Grant to Improve Highway

Austin Cope

The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe has been awarded a $2 million grant for a project to improve access and safety along a 2.5-mile section of U.S. Highway 160 south of Cortez. In a release, Colorado senators Cory Gardner and Michael Bennet both hailed the award, which comes from the federal Department of Transportation under a program known as TIGER, for Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery.

Gail Binkly is a career journalist who has worked for the Colorado Springs Gazette and Cortez Journal, and was the editor of the Four Corners Free Press, based in Cortez.
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