Malta Mayor ready to drop hammer on speeders

May 22, 2019

Malta Mayor John Demarais took to social media ahead of last Tuesday’s Malta City Council meeting to address a complaint made by a citizen and seconded by many others; children in the street near Cedarview Apartments, and motorists speeding through up and down South 6th Street West.

While Mayor Demarais said there isn’t a way the City of Malta can tell parents how to watch their children, he said that he talked with Phillips County Sheriff Jerry Lytle following Tuesday night’s meeting and the two agreed that the speed limit has been and will be 15 miles per hour, more speed limit sig...

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