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The electronic voting machines have been tested, sealed and put away, ready for next Tuesday.

Absentee ballots continue to come into the Carbon County Election Bureau, but that will end Friday, when the deadline arrives for those ballots, used by people away for work or too sick to go to polling places.

And now the scanners used to count those absentee ballots are tested and ready to go.

Everything is falling in place for the election -- at least in Carbon County.

County Election Director Kenneth Leffler took one of the final steps to prepare for the primary election Monday when he ran a mandated test of the scanning machine that tallies the absentee ballots. Read more

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Carbon County's last functioning covered bridge may soon be history -- at least as far as vehicular traffic goes.

The 128-year-old bridge is in the midst of getting emergency repairs to its rusted steel grates, over which vehicles cross Buckwha Creek in the Little Gap section of Lower Towamensing Township.

But an inspection by the county engineer during the repairs found even more, very costly, problems with the bridge.

Now county commissioners have to decide whether to spend $400,000 to $500,000 to fix the span -- which is on Covered Bridge Road just off Little Gap Road -- or close it to vehicles and leave it for the use of walkers and bicyclists. Read more

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The Reason Foundation, a libertarian think tank based in Los Angeles, said toll income should be designated to modernize the interstate and add truck-only lanes to let longer and heavier tractor-trailers use ... via Dailyitem.com

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