A tractor-trailer overturns on the highway, spilling toxic chemicals whose fumes waft over your child's elementary school. No one likes to think about it.
Early voting is under way.
The Capital Improvement Program's citizen advisory committee endorsed a bond election package that would also improve streets, traffic signals and parks, build a new Rose Park Senior Center, and renovate the Abilene Civic Center. The nine-member group was charged with studying the city's capital needs and recommending which should be financed. Although all propositions will be considered independently of one another on the Dec. 8 ballot, city officials are not calculating the cost of the individual proposals. The central fire station serves as home base to 30 firefighters, roughly double the amount of people it was built to support. In 1955, the fire station responded to 755 emergency calls.