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Last weekend’s snow drifted into Tuesday’s Portage City Council meeting, affecting everything from cars parked on snowy roads to Small Business Saturday.

The city received 9 inches of snow, requiring snowplows to drive 2,800 miles to clear the roads, Streets and Sanitation Superintendent Randy Reeder told the council.

“I have seen a lot of plow trucks and salt trucks out constantly,” Councilwoman Penny Ambler said.

Complicating efforts were vehicles parked on the street in violation of an ordinance that requires vehicles to be moved off roadways when 2 or more inches of snow fall.

“Get off the street, in the driveway, park somewhere else,” Reeder said. “It really helps us to clear out those subdivisions.”

The city is planning to make signs

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