Late leaf drop leads to extra week of pickup in Urbana

URBANA – It's been an unusually warm fall. So much so that even the trees in Champaign-Urbana were a few weeks tardy in dropping their leaves.

Urbana this week announced that it was adding a fifth week of leaf pickup this year, from Dec. 10-14, for the first time ever, according to Rod Fletcher, Urbana's environmental manager.

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