BEATRICE - Gage County Sheriff's Officers will use a Nebraska Office of Highway Safety grant to do a selective enforcement campaign in Cortland, June 9th through the 22nd.

Gage County Sheriff Millard Gustafson says the enforcement is a response to numerous complaints from residents, about vehicles speeding on U.S. Highway 77 through the community.

Although the highway speed limit is now 70 miles-per-hour outside the community, it drops to 60 miles-per-hour just outside of Cortland, then 45-miles-per-hour within the town, on U.S. 77.

Sheriff's officials have also investigated past accidents on that stretch of the highway….some of them serious.

Deputies will use marked patrol units to conduct the enforcement campaign between the hours of seven a.m. and seven p.m., but will also do some monitoring at other hours.

The highway safety grant helps cover the expense of deputy hours spent on the campaign.