Readers, apologies for typing the wrong month when Montage called attention to the September Council Meeting. I quickly put a notice on NextDoor and the Facebook of Loving MountainCity when I caught the error.

Our volunteer alderpersons went through a tough couple weeks before the September council meeting, with lost sleep, after creating a proposed budget that cut funding for Dumpster Days, Limb Days, and Loving Mountain City. No citizens attended the budget preparation meeting.

If citizens had b...