ST. JOSEPH — If you ask St. Joseph City Engineer Tim Zebell what keeps him up at night, he’ll tell you “funding.”
“Without that, I can’t make these projects go,” he said.
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Tim Zebell, city engineer for St. Joseph, oversaw this year’s Willa Drive reconstruction project.
Don Campbell / HP file photo
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