News from Neighbors
YC losing driver’s license service
YUMA PIONEER, April 19 — Yuma County will be without driver’s license services beginning April 30, Yuma County Clerk and Recorder Bev Wenger has announced.
The county’s driver’s license technician is leaving that position at the end of the month. Driver’s license services, such as getting a license or a learner’s permit and the accompanying written tests and driving tests, along with license renewals will not be available in Wray or Yuma for the foreseeable future. Vehicle registration services are not impacted.
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Residents to get more water violation notices
STERLING JOURNAL-ADVOCATE, April 25 — Thanks to an arcane rule enforced by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Merino residents will continue to get notices that their water is in violation of CDPHE standards — even though it really isn’t.
Tests throughout the first quarter of 2018 have shown the uranium content of the town’s water at around 16 parts per million, or about half the threshold set by CDPHE.
But the town is technically still in violation, and here’s why: Every three months, CDPHE averages the town’s uranium content over the previous 12 months. Because uranium content was high before the town’s new water treatment facility was fully operational, however, Merino’s four-quarter average is higher than the state’s limit of 30 parts per million. Every quarter that CDPHE tests the water, the average annual uranium level comes down considerably but is still higher than the allowed level.
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Communication starts on Mosers’ lot price discount
IMPERIAL REPUBLICAN, April 26 — April 15 has come and gone, and now Imperial, Nebraska’s City attorney has started communication with Scott and Stephanie Moser’s attorney.
The mid-April date was an important one to the owners of Scott’s Pump Service in Imperial after they signed an agreement in April 2015 that gave the Mosers a $161,450 discount on the price for the Cornerstone lot with the requirement that six full-time jobs be created within three years.
If the six jobs were not created by April 15 this year and sustained for two years, then the Mosers agreed “to make full payment of $161,450 within 45 days of notification by the City of Imperial” that the buyer has not fulfilled the terms of sale.
As per Imperial Mayor Dwight Coleman’s directive, City Attorney Josh Wendell said he sent a letter last week to the Mosers’ Ogallala, Nebraska, attorney requesting evidence of their attempts to comply with the job creation terms.
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Sheriff Day gets unwanted national attention
YUMA PIONEER, April 19 — A couple of billionaires have ended up getting Yuma County Sheriff Chad Day in the national news, and he says the accusations of preferential treatment for one of them is pure fantasy.
Bloomberg News, co-founded by billionaire Michael Bloomberg in 1990, broke an article Monday claiming that grants received by Day’s office from a foundation backed by billionaire Robert Mercer involved a quid pro quo in which Day made Mercer, along with his son-in-law and a longtime family friend, members of the “sheriff’s posse.”
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