Salt.
Road salt.
You know, salt, that stuff they spread on ice covered roads so our cars won't slide off the road, and careen into a guardrail or another vehicle.
Salt.
And why would we need salt as we head into another Ohio January?
Apparently, there is some salt on hand.
One of our crack Massillon Review investigative team members saw the street department spreading it very thickly last Friday night.
Except that there was no snow or ice Friday night.
The salt spreader was wide open and the salt was being dumped on roads that didn't need it.
It was almost as if they wanted to use it up.
And since we didn't pay for the last batch...
Nothing would get the new mayor in trouble more than if there was a big blizzard in early January and there wasn't enough salt for the roads.
We can hear it now, "we had plenty of salt when Frank was mayor."
It would be an extraordinary disaster.
Although we guess not everyone would be sad.
We know, we know, the Auditor has a plan to pay the salt bill.
Push it into next year.
Just like everything else.
Three more days...
Beware of 'overzealous golfers.'
"He said it was a mistake to build the additional nine holes urged by possibly overzealous golfers" (Mayor Frank Cicchinelli discussing the Legends of Massillon golf course at a city council meeting, The Repository, August 21, 2007).
