Sheffield to Citizens: You're on Your Own

 

We're painfully aware that even in Florence, cities fail to keep up gutters. Alleys and storm water ditches? We're not even sure we know what constitutes a storm water ditch. Does the city really want to depend on citizens to maintain something that helps control flooding?

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While on the subject of Sheffield, how's that open air dining area coming at Inspiration Landing? It's almost May. Those food truck vendors lining up to apply for positions yet?

Food trucks are quaint; they're not fine dining in an upscale development. You see any around Bridge Street in Huntsville?

And just how much will these casual vendors have to pay the city for the honor of doing business in IL? We've always heard the City of Tuscumbia priced their permits so high for the Keller Festival that most mobile food vendors gave that yearly to do a hard pass. What about IL is so different? Except for having far fewer people, that is...