11 minutes ago Emily Halling ,

DULUTH, Minn.– Before you know it, the city of Duluth will be covered in a blanket of snow and ice.

But before this happens, street maintenance workers still have their work cut out for them.

“Right now, basically, we’ve wrapped up our construction season for the year. We’re still doing some spot repairs. We’re still doing some pothole patching. We’re getting some of those kinds of overhanging brush that may interfere with our plow trucks that tend to damage,” said Geoff Vukelich, Street Maintenance Operations Coordinator, City of Duluth.

And when both the streets and trucks are tuned up and fixed, it’s time for the operators to hit the streets for a test drive.

“We have a lot of new staff this year, so we got a lot of good training going on. And t

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