Harsh winter cutting into salt supplies, raising prices

The next time it snows in Homewood, fewer village streets are going to get a dose of ice-melting salt.

The village and other Southland communities are running dangerously low on road salt and are scrambling to find other sources. If there’s any salt to be had, the price far exceeds what the going rate was before the season. Please click here to read Mike Nolan’s story in the Southtown Star.