Antelope County commissioners consider bond to finance road repair

The Antelope County commissioners are considering a bond to finance extensive road repairs.

“I think a big topic at this meeting will be what we will do with our oil roads, after our discussion last week,” commissioner Dean Smith said during the commissioners’ May 11 meeting at the courthouse in Neligh.

He had contacted Tobin Buchanan with First National Capital Markets, who had previously worked with the county, to inquire about bond terms to finance potential major repair costs, “to look at options on how we are going to go forward with these roads.”

Buchanan provided preliminary 10-, 15- an...