Melina Shields and other residents who live across Mud Bay have faced a big-city problem in a decidedly rural area: where to parallel park their trucks and cars off the public right-of-way.
State Department of Transportation officials say parking along the road blocked snow removal equipment and posed a safety hazard.
A handful of residents got together and did something: for several weekends, they gathered like Amish barn-raisers, taking measurements from the edge of the…

