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Feb. 11, 2010
by Don Sincell
While local residents are accustomed to coping with severe winter weather conditions, the two recent storms that have pushed the county’s total snowfall for the winter of 2009-10 to over 180 inches could not have come at a worse time, particularly for Garrett County’s eight incorporated municipalities.
Attempting to remove nearly two feet of snow from municipal roadways is expensive under the best of circumstances, and even more so when storms strike on weekends, which generally necessitates overtime for town crews. That hardship became much worse this winter because of recent major cuts in state aid to the towns.
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