City hopes to rid streets of clunkers

Although the season is almost over, the Malta City Council will be looking to do some Spring Cleaning around town, towing cars away from City Streets and out to the Town Shop following a comment made by a former Malta resident.

"There was a person who used to live here and she asked me "what happened to my clean little town'," Malta Mayor John Demarais said during last week's City Council meeting. "We have junk vehicles all over the place and it looks like Hell, excuse my language."

Mayor Demarais said that a few examples of junked cars around town included a few near the Cedar View Apartme...