Entering beautiful downtown e-mail,
you're warned of a 20 mile per hour
speed limit with good reason,
the pothole pocked streets prove an
obstacle course even for the city's two
police cruisers.
The tiny town of 600 plus
also has inadequate water and sewer
facilities, but the mayor's request
for a state or federal aid have so
far been far from fruitful.
So we are caught in a circle.
But while the city is plowing through
its bureaucratic paperwork for help,
it decided to help itself by having
a yard sale.
And this is the yard.
It's selling one square inch
at a time. As a result of that, people
across the country have just been
absolutely great to super love.
There are nine hundred thousand square
inches in the city, lot at ten dollars
a square inch, which includes a deed the
same that could bring in nine
million dollars.
But Mayor Ewbank doesn't expect that
much.
We are just hoping to get enough to get a
a backhoe to cover of exposed
water lines and a road grader so that
our roads are passable and every inch
sold gets e mail closer
to that goal.
Jack Helsel, Channel 5 News
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