Colorado Department of Transportation

On Monday, the town of Mancos held a groundbreaking ceremony for the town’s second crosswalk across Highway 160, located at the intersection of Beech Street across from the Mancos Vet clinic.

During the month of January, Colorado got a lot of snow. Snowfall in the San Juan mountains hit 135 percent of average, totaling over 60 inches on Lizard Head Pass by the end of the month. The snow more or less buried towns like Rico, and avalanches closed mountain passes.

A score of upset residents from the Pleasant View area came to the Montezuma County Commission meeting Monday to protest the proposed closing of one end of County Road BB.

The Colorado Department of Transportation will begin work Monday on a $4 million project to remove the 54-year-old Dolores River Bridge on Colorado Highway 90 about four miles east of Bedrock and 15 miles east of the Utah-Colorado state line.

The cash-strapped Colorado Department of Transportation is looking into charging state drivers a per-mile fee instead of the current gas tax.