HENNING, Tenn. — Folks in Henning were so fed up with pot holes they’ve started filing them in themselves.
WREG went to find out why citizens were having to dig into their own pockets to do what their tax dollars should be already pay for.
Winter was tough on roads across the mid-south, but folks in Henning said the town didn’t do enough to fix everything and it’s costing them money.
“I can’t afford for my trucks to be tore up. Or my vehicles, at all,” Deborah Maxwell said.
Maxwell has called Henning home for 45 years, but she’s never seen these roads in such bad shape.
A pot hole about 5 feet wide and 3 feet long sat inches from her driveway.
For four months she called town hall and asked them to do something about it, but they never did.
So Maxwell spent $40 of her own money to fill it in.
She had a simple question for the Mayor.
“What’s her plan? What is she going to do?” she asked.
We took her concerns to Henning’s Town Hall, but were told Mayor Marva Temple was gone for the day and wouldn’t be back until later.
We were told to send her an email.
Deborah wasn’t the only one in town frustrated by the lack of answers.
Billy Sealock said people wanted to know what’s going on and they were sick of the secrecy.
“If there’s a money problem let the public know. So we know they know it’s a problem but they don’t have the money to deal with it. It’s never addressed,” Sealock explained.
Until the receive answers, these folks said they would take it slow until the town decides to do something about these pot holes.
