Commissioners back petition to repair Highway 7

Carter County commissioners recently backed a petition penned to the department of transportation, Governor Gianforte and the legislature regarding immediate necessary repair of Highway 7 in Carter County. The petition requests that the aforementioned parties immediately engage in remedial repair and improvement of Highway 7 by widening its southern portion approximately from mile marker 16 to mile marker 8 to the approximate dimensions of the much wider and foundationally-sound northern portions of the highway by the end of the next fiscal year of June 30, 2023.

Further, the petition calls fo...