Snow removal prompts complaints

The late December snowfall - with the heaviest accumulation from a single storm in several years - caused some complaints about how the streets in Havre were cleared, Mayor Bob Rice said Wednesday.

Rice, during a quarterly meeting with the Montana Department of Transportation, said people complained that the city and state were piling snow on the sides of streets, blocking parking and access to sidewalks. He said he received more complaints about that than any other issue since he took office in 2001.

"It would be better if we could try something else," Rice said, adding that it might work bet...