On Monday, May 14, workers from the Perry County Highway Department under the direction of Perry County Engineer DeAndre Kimble began work on the roads in Branch Heights.

While this isn’t the repaving the residents had been promised over four years ago, it is a significant effort to repair some of the worse potholes and clean stopped up gutters.

Pictured to the right are Branch Heights residents Shirley Winn and Rosie Garth with Perry County Highway employee Scott Jackson.

Garth and Winn have among the most vocal citizens about the condition of the roads and the dire necessity of doing something about it.

Winn said that getting someone in to patch the worst of the pot holes w was a good first step but far from fulfilling a campaign promise made by Eutaw Mayor Raymond Steele several years ago.

Winn said that Steele was so adamantly against the repair work that he refused to sign the contract with Perry County even though the council had unanimously approved  it. The work Monday could not begin until the contract could be signed by Mayor Pro Tem Hattie Edwards.

Winn’s comment  was, “Well finally my son will not have to tell people he lives in ‘holey road Branch Heights.”’