Officials in Alfalfa County spent the ten o'clock hour of their Monday morning in a warm conference room for their weekly meeting. As the cold wind blew outside, Jay Hague, Stan Tucker and Marvin Woodall (who were joined by county clerk Laneta Unruh and administrative assistant Nancy Lambert) kicked things off with routine items of business.

The three men gave signatures of approval on last week's meeting minutes, maintenance and operation payment warrants, and blanket purchase orders. Monthly officer reports were approved as well and there were no road crossing permits this week.

Last week, c...