It's hard to disagree with the city's proposal to crack down on shopping carts that are littering many city neighborhoods.

In many cases, the carts are making it easier for people to steal metal – like the innards from a freezer at the St. Susan Center, markers from Lakeview Cemetery or other items throughout the city – and transport them to scrapyards. So not only are the carts becoming a growing eyesore in some neighborhoods, they are also actively being used in thefts and criminal mischief. A memorandum associated with the ordinance noted that on Monday, Aug. 10, 2026, code enforcement officials saw someone taking a shopping cart to a local scrap yard full of items presumed to be scrap products. Reports from local business owners and neighbors on and near Monroe Street in Jamestown have reported individuals stripping small appliances, on........

© The Post-Journal