County calls for more local control

For at least 20 years, a pile of tires was allowed to accumulate in the town of Mayville. Now, three years after it was discovered by a DNR agent, town officials are still working to clean it up. The pile is located at the end of a tree-lined road, south of Center Road and east of Sandhill Road, on land that used to be the town dump. Satellite images from Google Earth make it possible to see...

Abbotsford officials have decided to take a new direction when it comes to doing building inspections. At its latest meeting on Jan. 21, the council voted to hire Pat Kilty and his company Three C’s to handle all of the city’s residential and non-residential inspections. An exception will be made for inspections of any newly built houses and home additions for the rest of this year, which w...

A fatal workplace accident at Abbyland Foods last Wednesday was not called into 911 until three hours after it occurred, according to local authorities who said a night shift worker fell into a 20-foot tank and went unnoticed for two hours before fellow workers spent another hour looking for him. Initial autopsy results indicate the employee died as the result of drowning. Central Fire and E...