Cleaning, safety crews get welcome downtown
Augusta Chronicle (subscription) - Augusta,GA,USA
A lot of that dirt is collected by the sidewalk sweeper, Mr. Wiggins said. "A street sweeper has never been run on this sidewalk. All that dirt weighs a ton ...
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Worker struck by shot from pellet gun
WHDH-TV - Boston,MA,USA
Police said a DPW worker driving a street sweeper was hit in the head with a pellet gun Tuesday. The gun was fired from a yard on River Ridge Road in ...
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Manchester United's new sweeper plays a good clean game
Easier (press release) - Chester,UK
The Scarab Merlin XP 7.5 tonne street sweeper was the obvious choice to keep the streets around Old Trafford clean, while the Scarab Minor Compact ...
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Disability awareness training comes to Surprise
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
The team will compete in the asphalt patch, crack seal, 10-wheeler dump truck, wheel loader, street sweeper and concrete repair events. ...
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Cleaning it up in Towanda
Towanda Daily Review - Towanda,PA,USA
The street sweeping can take place only when the temperature is above freezing, as the street sweeper uses water as it sweeps up debris, Fairchild explained ...
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Commission appointed to deal with trash issues
Medford Transcript - Medford,MA,USA
Sullivan said he won't walk his children down the street anymore because they always ask him why the street is so dirty. "They have a street sweeper who ...
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DPW worker struck by shot from pellet gun
Wellesley Townsman - MA, USA
Police would not identify the victim, who was driving a street sweeper when he was struck, but did say that he is fine. The man was rounding the bend, ...
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Mopping up to doctoring up
Frost Illustrated - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
I recall, when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made his great speech in Washington, how that influenced me when he said, if you're a street sweeper be the best ...
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City cleanup progresses
Maryville Daily Forum - Maryville,MO,USA
By MEGAN CRAWFORD Last week brought more than just a break from the cold weather, it brought the chance for city crews to run the street sweeper for the ...
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Mean Streets
Newsweek - USA
Next Salman describes the shooting of a hefty middle-aged street sweeper a couple of months before the police murder. Gunmen fired on the sweeper from their ...
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Road Runner by Andrea Kelly : Private firm is hired for floodwater ...
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
Carole E. McGuire spotted a street sweeper spinning away at Campbell Avenue and East Broadway at about 4:30 on a Wednesday afternoon. ...
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Road rage blamed for Oceanside shooting
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
Fact is there are more tickets issued by the street sweeping people when they clean the streets. They ticket cars that are blocking the sweeper! ...
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Street sweeping clears winter debris
Quad City Times - Davenport,IA,USA
News releases will be issued to remind all property owners of the sweeper schedule so citizens can clean their property prior to sweeping. ...
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Spiraling government secrecy should alarm us all
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC,USA
I had a timer to wake me every hour so I could see if street sweepers were cleaning the parking lots. No street sweeper showed up the entire week. ...
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Iraq, five years on
Scotsman - United Kingdom
Meanwhile, a street sweeper died when a hidden roadside bomb exploded in the Karradah neighbourhood of central Baghdad. Eight others were injured. ...
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Positions, Trucks, Grader Out; Six Crown Vics, Street Sweeper Still In
HNN Huntingtonnews.net - WV, USA
Funding for the new officers and a street sweeper is still in the budget proposal. The stump grinder will be in addition to one the city already has and ...
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Gunmen clash with Iraqi police, leaving 5 dead, 15 injured
The Canadian Press - BAGHDAD
Also Saturday, a street sweeper was killed and eight injured when a roadside bomb hidden in a trash can exploded in Baghdad's central Karradah ...
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Downtown Towanda shop owners encouraged to sweep cinders into the ...
Towanda Daily Review - Towanda,PA,USA
After completing the street sweeping downtown, the street sweeper will move on to the borough's residential neighborhoods, he said. ...
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Paving added to 2008-09 budget
Huntington Herald Dispatch - Huntington,WV,USA
Funding for six new police officers, six police cruisers and a street sweeper is still in the budget proposal. It also provides partial funding for a new ...
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