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county was responsible for maintaining the sidewalks around the courthouse,” Clerk Diane Bruce explained to the supervisors at their September meeting. “It was another of those nebulous agreements that have been made over the years and never written down anywhere.”
But when news of the board’s plans leaked out, “we got word from the council that they had a man on staff fulltime and that he would do it because they owned the sidewalks,” Ms. Bruce added.
A logical approach would be for the county to maintain the sidewalks inside the fence around the courthouse quadrangle and for the town to maintain
(See SIDEWALKS, p. 10)
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