Ferry's old maples taken down

Contractors remove the tops of the last of the 90-year-old red maples from Coulee Dam's Ferry Avenue Friday so the broken sidewalks below them can be fixed. The two-block-long street curving through 16 houses will get all-new concrete but shadeless sidewalks for a project that will come to around $250,000, not including the tree removal, which the city said was unexpected. Basin Tree Service quote...