By Scott White
Managing Editor
In a special meeting of the Midway City Council on Monday, Jan. 26, the council approved five encroachment requests from the Kentucky-American Water Company at Midway Station. The encroachments are needed to tie in a current dead-end pipe to an existing pipe owned by KAWC.
The need for this is a result of Midway changing water providers from KWAC to the Frankfort Plant Board. Once the work is completed by KWAC, it will supervise and pay for all pavement and sidewalk cuts and restore disturbed green space.
Midway Mayor Grayson Vandegrift took the opportunity presented by the meeting to report on the status of the city’s response to the winter storm that hit the area over the weekend and to check if there are any unmet needs in the community.
Vandegrift reported that “Littrell’s Lawn Service did a fantastic job . . . because of the temperatures, the treatments lose effectiveness, but our roads are as good as they can be, but folks need to be really careful.”
Vandegrift also expressed his gratitude to city residents for not parking on the streets to allow snow plows and first responders to have no issues with using the roads. He also reported that Midway Christian Church agreed to provide a warming station if anyone needs it.