Antelope County commissioners adopt new snow-plowing policy

Antelope County Commissioners adopted a new snow removal policy when they met last Tuesday at the courthouse in Neligh.

Casey Dittrich, road superintendent, presented the policy that he and road foreman Aaron Boggs have been drafting over the past few weeks, with input from Tim Baxter from the Nebraska Intergovernmental Risk Management Agency, the county’s liability-insurance carrier. Input also came from road crew members and, according to Dittrich, has the “blessing” of county attorney Joe Abler.

The policy establishes protocol for the order of plowing roads, with emergency, priority one, tw...