Briefs: Mar. 8, 2018

CITY SWEEPER ROLLS AGAIN

Colfax crews rolled out a city sweeper early Friday morning as a possible harbinger of the approach of spring. Public Works Director Matt Hammer said the crew made four passes down Main Street to remove gravel which was deposited on the street by the meltdown for the last two days.

Almost all of the berms of snow at the center of the street vanished March 1 in the warm weather. The downtown reading on the PNW temperature sign reached 50 degrees at one point Thursday afternoon.

Gravel swept up after the snow battle filled the sweeper's collector bin.

Hammer said the mai...