adopt-a-highway

A few years ago, the Carlton County Transportation Department made us aware of a potential danger to our Adopt-A-Highway volunteers or and others that walk a long the roadway with our families or pets. Usually, the biggest safety concern is being hit by a passing vehicle, or if you are doing a highway clean-up project, being cut or poked by a piece of glass or metal.  But, this concern is much mor

This is SO SAD!!!  Our Adopt-A-Highway volunteers take the time to walk the ditches and clean up after people that are careless and throw or leave their litter with reckless abandon.  Usually, the biggest safety concern is being hit by a passing vehicle, or being cut or poked by a piece of glass or metal.  But, the Carlton County Transportation Department warns of a new concern, one that could lea