Last week, a couple of rather pointed letters to the editor appeared in local newspapers in response to Commissioner Gary Hall’s missive that appeared in the April 24 edition of the Hungry Horse News. The full text of Hall’s letter is available here. Hall is in favor of paving the North Fork Road as far as the Camas Creek entrance to Glacier Park. He also announced a couple of meetings related to this issue. The first is on May 21st. It was originally scheduled to be held in the conference room at Freedom Bank, but has since been moved to the North Valley Hospital Community Center, which is a couple of blocks north of Smith’s in Columbia Falls. The second meeting is the “reveal” of the short-term North Fork Road dust study conducted last summer and paid for by the NFRCHS. It will be held in the County Commissioner’s meeting room on June 9th.

Both letters take a jaundiced view of spending big money on a section of the North Fork Road when the need is so much greater elsewhere. The full text of the letters follows…

This letter from Don Sullivan, titled “Hall needs to explain view on paving of North Fork Road,” appeared in the Daily Inter Lake on May 13, 2008.

Just when you thought you’d heard it all comes County Commissioner Gary Hall’s comments on road dust and paving that appeared in a recent issue of the Hungry Horse News. No doubt valley residents who live on unpaved roads would have been upset