After such a mild season last winter, the City of Zanesville had an overage of salt and struggled with where to store this excess.
The city is required to buy 80% of the total bid amount that the city placed with the Ohio Department of Transportation the year before. Prices vary from year to year because they are dependent on the weather of the winter prior, therefore, due to the quiet winter last year, the reflective price was lower.
Mike Sims, Zanesville Public...
It's a routine winter for those plowing our roadways in the City of Zanesville.
Zanesville's Public Service Director said that salt prices this year are just over $49 for a ton. Last winter, the city was paying over $60 a ton for salt. The mild winter also led to a problem for the city on where to store the excess.
"We had to unload all the bins that we keep our stone and other construction materials like sand and gravel in and actually fill them with salt and then buy huge...
Shoppers swarmed the Pick'n Save in Zanesville on Friday to stock up on groceries before the storm hit.
Assistant Store Director Rodney Price was lucky enough to have the day off, but he said milk and bread were flying off the shelves as people prepared for the worst. Price said the store's atmosphere is always eerily calm once the snow starts to fall.
"Usually as soon as they mention the word snow, we start getting really busy," said Price. "We...
With the below freezing temperatures, ice is becoming a bigger problem for drivers and homeowners.
To combat the ice, local stores such as Pick & Save in Zanesville are selling a variety of salt. But certain types of salt will work better on different surfaces.
"If your driveway is limestone or gravel, a lot of folks use the extra coarse rock salt because it is larger and it will melt more ice and for concrete driveways we have the kind with calcium...
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