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Cascade County Sheriff, Jesse Slaughter, held a town meeting at Wedsworth Hall last Tuesday to propose a plan to have a Community Resource Deputy living in Cascade. Cascade is an incorporated community. By state statute, it has to have law enforcement. If it was to have its own law enforcement, it would be a huge expense. So Cascade contracts with the Sheriff's Office, who bills the town approximately $65k a year to provide law enforcement to the city.

What the Sheriff's Office is proposing is that community or town council vote to find a rental property or a home to purchase. As an e...