Ameren offers trades for trees

HOOPESTON – AmerenIP wants to trade trees with some Hoopeston residents.

The utility, preparing for trimming around power lines – scheduled to begin in about a month – suggested at Wednesday's Hoopeston city council meeting that it would offer to trade new trees to homeowners in exchange for permission to remove troublesome trees.

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