Amity Gardens News

The city's transportation department said it would prefer that customers use the Walmart entrance on Independence Boulevard, but a lot of them are actually coming in through the back entrance after cutting through the neighborhood behind the store.

Crews had to use a wrecker to pull a car out of a creek overnight. The car went into the creek at Raymond Place, near Amity Gardens Shopping Center on Independence Boulevard.

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With construction just months away on Independence Boulevard, some city leaders this week met with the state's top transportation official to discuss potential changes in the plan to turn a 1.4-mile stretch of the road into a freeway.

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