Dateline: July 19, 2001

Work being done on US 287 in city  

Roger Estlack, Clarendon Enterprise

Just three years after the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) completed a $3.2 million overhaul of US 287 through Clarendon, the city’s main thoroughfare is under construction again.

A crew from J. Lee Milligan of Amarillo will be in town for approximately two weeks, according to TxDOT spokeswoman Barbara Seal.

Workers will be milling out the ruts that have formed in some places along the highway and laying down a more durable hot mix in their place.

Seal said the work is the first phase of a 77-day project that will take the Milligan crew from Clarendon through several towns along US 287 and ending in Chillicothe. Similar work will be performed in each town. The entire project will cost $621,000.

The crew will return to Donley County in the middle of August to start another project, Seal said.

Starting at the Armstrong County line and working to the west city limit of Hedley, the southbound lanes of US 287 will be receiving a new overlay, costing an estimated $3.5 million. No work related to this project will be done in Clarendon, Seal said.