Council looks to protect road surface

When Freedom Holding Company began excavating the C-Bar Estates subdivision in Pine Haven a couple years ago, Vince Waters of Keyhole Ranch allowed the waste dirt and timber to be stockpiled on his property in a dump pit just beyond the east end of Vista Grande Drive with dirt transported back onto the site as circumstances demand.

At first, the rancher was permitting the heavy trucks to use a two-track running along the fence line between the town and ranch; however, he later was made aware that the path thought to be his is, in fact, the property of local resident Lonny Fuller. Fuller does n...