Council hears of color run, awards landfill bid

Following a week of water leaks and main breaks, both Malta Mayor Shyla Jones and Public Works Director Jim Truelove said that couldn’t have been more proud of City employees and officials for stepping up and getting things taken care of during a trying time.

“I think we need to give his crew a big kudos,” Mayor Jones said during the final City Council meeting of April last Tuesday. “They were working with just four people — because we have one out on a medical and who is away — and Jim and that crew were working some 15 and 20 hour days there for awhile and Jim actually spent...