Photo: Ready for snow

Juneau streets department employees Jerry Tisher, left, an equipment operator, and Joe Santos, a mechanic, work on installing new hardware on a snowplow for one of Juneau's "ten yarder" trucks. After last winter's heavy snowfall, the city is ensuring that all three of its snowplows have new parts and hardware replacements to keep them in top-running condition.

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