BENTON, IL – (William McPherson, Benton Gazette. Please click on the link for the full story. Here is an excerpt below.)
The City of Benton is getting ready to whack down some weeds.
Mayor Fred Kondritz said at Monday’s meeting that after discussing the matter with Street Commissioner Donnie Wyant, that the City will begin having a Street Department employee work an additional four hours every Saturday, weed eating various city owned properties and residential ditches until the city’s overgrowth problem is contained.
Kondritz and Wyant discussed the matter of residents not maintaining ditches and islands. These pieces of land, although technically belonging to the City, were said to be the resident’s responsibility to maintain according to City ordinances.
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