Mayor’s Column

by Ryan J. Miller, Mayor of Wellman

We should be proud of our area fall sports teams who all had very successful years. The Mid-Prairie boys’ cross country team made it to state, along with Sofia Chmaruk from the girls’ team. The football team had a great year and had a good run in the state playoffs. The IMS boys’ cross country team also had a great year and finished second in the state.
I would like to thank everyone that helped with the election last week. I know that it is a long day setting up, working the polls and cleaning up afterwards. The Wellman precinct had one of the biggest (as a percentage of registered voters) turnouts in the county.
The 2nd Street bridge should be reopening at the end of this week. The concrete has been poured and the DOT has to inspect it again before it can open. I’m sure this has been an inconvenience for a lot of people during construction, and I would like to thank everyone for their patience with this project. We have had a lot of construction projects going on in Wellman this summer and fall, and the public has been very understanding through it all.