BERLIN — With the city’s entire fleet of sidewalk tractors out of service, the city council has decided to obtain a new sidewalk tractor through a lease-purchase agreement.
“We don’t have a sidewalk tractor right now,” Public Works Director Eric Grenier told the council at its work session Monday night.
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