Apr. 24, 2025 8:45p
(WGTD)---Kenosha County is launching an 'adopt-a-highway' program patterned after one that's been in place at the state level for years.
Kenosha County Executive Samantha Kerkman unveiled details of the initiative at an Earth Day event held this week at Brighton School.
Under the program, individuals and groups can sign up on the county's website to periodically pick up trash along two-mile-long sections of a county trunk highway of their choosing. The county will provide safety vests, signs and trash bags. The 'adopters', if so desired, can choose to have their efforts acknowledged with highway signs posted on their segments.
The program only applies to roads controlled by the county--not city, village or town roads.
According to a news release from the county, much of the credit for the new program goes to County Board Supervisor Frederick Brookhouse who began pushing the idea as soon as he was elected to the board about a year ago.
Brookhouse says the clean-highways initiative is a reflection of community pride and good citizenship.
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