“For the last three years I’ve been calling, trying to get this lot clean on the corner of A and Main Streets.,” said a Prichard resident, clutching a microphone. Rats, snakes, you name it. They have taken this corner lot to be a dumping ground.”
One by one, they rose up from the pews, not to rejoice, but to complain, to suggest, and to raise expectations about what they expect when Prichard’s new government is sworn in.
“I want to live in a clean area,” said a man, “so when I bring business and family, they don’t see trash everywhere.”…