By Associated Press
Frankfort, KY – If Kentucky's highways and byways look a little cleaner this morning, you can thank the Adopt-a-Highway program. The Transportation Cabinet says this is Adopt-a-Highway Summer Scrub Week, and volunteers have fanned out across the state cleaning the roadsides. Volunteers adopt two-mile sections of highway under a contract with the cabinet. More than 900 groups participate in Kentucky's program, cleaning some 6,800 miles of roadside annually. The cabinet says it spends $5 million and 200,000 worker hours every year removing 96,000 bags of highway litter, helping save taxpayer dollars.