For many Prichard residents, overflowing garbage cans and piles of trash have become an all-too-familiar sight.
The city says sanitation crews are struggling to keep up after two of its three working garbage trucks broke down, leaving just one city truck to help cover routes serving nearly 10,000 residents.
“I think one of my first instances of that is during Thanksgiving and we had two trucks go down at once. We had garbage on the ground during the holiday season, and so it was a very big concern for me,” said Mayor Carletta Davis…