Rio Blanco County residents concerned about keeping dispatch services local filled the commissioners’ meeting room to overflowing Monday.

Sheriff Anthony Mazzola put out a statement on social media this weekend stating he was told late Friday by Commissioner Gary Moyer that the board had decided to move the county’s local dispatch services to the Craig call center as of Jan. 1, 2021, in an attempt to make up for an anticipated $2.2 million in budget cuts for 2021. Mazzola said he was told to have his employees attend the meeting… READ MORE