Lewis County Committee Meeting Brings Plan to Address Community Concerns Over Increased Loitering

During the regularly scheduled Committee of the Whole meeting of the Board of Commissioners held Monday night, several items were on the agenda, but most requested by the community, was the need to discuss the issue of increased loitering. In almost all cases made public, those loitering are not familiar faces.

One citizen recounts an instance that happened this week. “Saturday morning, I took the kids to get breakfast at Sonic when a man I’ve never seen before came up to the front of my car. It was apparent that he was ‘not with it,’ and was talking to himself dramatically with big motions. I...