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Snow today, but – overall – lack of winter precipitation is leaving soil dry

After taking oversight of many of the roads in Blackberry Township, Rod Feece has expected to deal with snow, potholes, buckled pavements and a host of other road-related issues.

But one challenge Feece, Blackberry Township’s road commissioner, never expected to encounter was finding additional storage space for an abundance of unused salt.

“We’ve still got a lot of winter left, but we’ve hardly used any of the salt we started the winter with,” Feece said. “And we’ve got to take more eventually.

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