Ohio towns ration road salt as Morton mine shutdown enters fourth week. Company stays silent

PAINESVILLE, Ohio — In Streetsboro, road crews will focus on hills, curves and intersections when they salt side streets this winter. In Timberlake, the mayor is trying to find enough salt to keep school buses from sliding through intersections. And in South Russell, replacing the missing salt could push the village’s bill above $260,000, more than two and a half times what it budgeted.