Malta Council hears deer, one-way requests

An abundance of deer around the city and people driving too fast near downtown businesses were among the items discussed at last Tuesday night’s Malta City Council meeting.

A Malta resident, representing her mother, talked about the deer population in the City and spoke of how they had recently been eating many of her mother’s flowers.

“I know it was a hard winter this last winter,” she said, “but when (a deer) showed up in her carport and proceeded to kind of nest in there, I think something needs to be done. They are getting so domesticated … I don’t know what you can do,...