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Residents urge symbolic Ukraine lighting, request park trash can; commissioner to testify on state bill
Summary
At the March 3 public forum, a Huron resident asked the city to reinstall blue-and-yellow lights to show support for Ukraine, another resident urged more trash cans at Memorial Park, and a commissioner said they may testify on House Bill 1239 as a private citizen.
HURON, S.D. — During the public forum at the March 3 City Commission meeting, residents and commissioners raised local community concerns and upcoming civic action.
John McNally, who identified himself as a Huron resident, asked the commission to reinstall portable blue-and-yellow lights at the Campbell Park benches as a quiet show of support for Ukraine. McNally said the lights had been installed after Russia’s 2022 invasion and were later removed after vandalism and community debate. "I would very much like to have this happen," McNally said, offering to pay for replacement lights if the city would permit them.
City staff explained the earlier lights were portable fixtures…
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