Water Main Installation on Cherry Street Starts Monday

Construction continues on Cherry Street. Starting Monday, September 13, and going on through Friday, September 17, the City of Fort Morgan will begin work to install a water main in Cherry Street. Sections of Cherry Street between Gateway Avenue and Burlington Avenue will be closed or have limited access. No parking signs and notifications will be posted throughout the project. Gateway and Burlington Avenues may also have temporary lane closures and slowing of traffic. You'll want to plan an alternate route if you normally use any of those streets to get where you're going.

Motorists are advised to expect delays and use alternative routes. If you have any questions, please call Mitch Church, Water Distribution Superintendent, at (970) 542-3911.

DOC Officials, Residents Unhappy about "Minimum Risk" for Alward

While Sterling residents said at a meeting this week that they didn't understand why Douglas Alward was considered a minimum risk after he'd escaped three other prisons, Department of Corrections officials said they were angered about that too. Colorado's top prison official says an inmate escaped from a maximum security prison by grounding himself and crawling under an electric fence. State corrections chief Ari Zavaras told Denver's KUSA-TV that Douglas Alward used a homemade ladder to scale one fence and devised a way to bypass an electric fence that will stun someone on first contact and has enough electricity to kill anything that touches it twice. Zavaras declined to say how Alward grounded himself. The 48-year-old Alward was serving time for attempted murder, assault, kidnapping and burglary when he escaped from the Sterling Correctional Facility in northeastern Colorado Aug. 22. He surrendered three days later at a home near Yuma, where he held a woman hostage for a couple hours.