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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Second internet tower approved Texas company expanding rural internet in county Shown is the area southeast of Great Bend where there is a planned telecommunications tower. The Barton County Commission Monday OKed a conditional-use permit to allow the structure.
To help promote a Hudson, Texas-based internet provider’s campaign to expand internet access in rural Barton County, the County Commission Monday morning approved the second of five conditional land use permit for AMG Technology Investment Group (Nextlink) to build a telecommunications tower.
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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Commission districts stay the same New Census data taken into account This map shows how the five Barton County Commission districts are divided. They will remain unchanged for the next three years.
Although the population has changed some in the five Barton County Commission districts, the boundary lines last set in 2018 will remain the same for another three years, it was decided at the commission meeting Monday morning. At least once every three years, the commission must review districting to assure that each of the five is as compact and equal in population as possible.
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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Redwing corner improvements closer to a reality Changes will make intersection safer Pictured is the NE 60 Avenue and K-4 intersection on the east side of Redwing that will see improvements.
Long-awaited safety improvements are getting closer for the dangerous intersection of NE 60 Avenue and K-4 on the east edge of Redwing, following action by the Barton County Commission Monday morning. Approved were the purchases of two small triangular swaths of right-of-way to allow the ditches to be re-configured when the new concrete drainage box is installed.
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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Local funds help county with USDA grant Foundations pitch in over $60K for match Teresa Mazouch with the Golden Belt Community Foundation, second from left, is pictured with Barton County Commissioners Jim Daily, Jennifer Schartz and Homer Kruckenberg Monday morning. The GBCF awarded the county $41,000 to help the county with its match for a USDA distance learning and telemedicine grant. - photo by DALE HOGG Great Bend Tribune
In October, the Barton County Commission accepted the awarding of a United States Department of Agriculture Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program grant totalling $781,126.96 to support efforts in Barton, Ellsworth, Rice and Stafford counties. However, when commissioners approved bids to implement