By late Friday afternoon, all that was left was removing the snow from the center of the streets in the downtown area.
For a little more than a week, between 50 and 60 employees from Sedalia’s Street, Cemetery and Sanitation departments, along with help from the Vehicle Maintenance and Water departments, worked nonstop 12-hour shifts to combat the nearly 2 feet of snow that had fallen.
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