Mississippi River Bridge To Close Throughout The Week

WKMS | By Todd Hatton

Published March 25, 2013 at 8:00 AM CDT

The U.S. 60-62 bridge over the Mississippi River from Illinois to Missouri will be closed starting today until this Thursday. Crews will be performing a required safety inspection of the span during the closure. The bridge will also be restricted to one lane next week from April 1^st to the 4^th from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Todd Hatton

Todd Hatton hails from Paducah, Kentucky, where he got into radio under the auspices of the late, great John Stewart of WKYX while a student at Paducah Community College. He also worked at WKMS in the reel-to-reel tape days of the early 1990s before running off first to San Francisco, then Orlando in search of something to do when he grew up. He received his MFA in Creative Writing at Murray State University. He vigorously resists adulthood and watches his wife, Angela Hatton, save the world one plastic bottle at a time.

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