Business owners ask Malta City Council about lingering stench around downtown

During the new business portion of last Tuesday night's Malta City Council Meeting, two business owners located in the city's downtown wanted to talk about the phantom smell that continues to plague downtown businesses.

In April of last year the Malta Public Works team ignited smoke bombs and dropped them into downtown sewers and found some leaks in Malta business. The smoke bombs were the latest attempt to figure out how the foul order was making its way into the downtown businesses for at least the past three years.

On Tuesday night, Art's Furniture owner Art Lundstrom asked the City Coun...