While the two downtown area projects have closed a stretch of Main Street along Fifth Avenue where the carnival begins, city officials say the road construction projects are "vital and have to be done."
“Not saying it would look like that or could look like that, but that may be an option as we see a higher traffic volume there,” Behm said of the portion of Highway 37 next to the proposed soybean processing plant south of Mitchell.
“That’s one of our newer bridges we have in town, and we’re talking replacing it. It’s a little disheartening,” Mitchell City Councilman Jeff Smith said of the canal bridge.
