First major snowfall ends with 7 or more inches accumulated By COBY LaRUE Staff Snow began to fall late Monday night and had accumulated to around seven inches by daybreak Tuesday in Sparta, causing schools to close and sending NCDOT workers scrambling.

A REAL PUSHOVER? - Chris Walker of Sparta pushes the snow from the parking lot at Trojan Village Shopping Center early Tuesday morning.

"We started around 11 p.m. last night and we’ve been going ever since," stated Road Maintenance Supervisor Roger Todd. "We pretty much have everything open, but there probably will be some slick spots on the roads tonight."

Todd stated that about 300 tons of salt, 50 tons of fine gravel and 200 gallons of liquid chloride had been used to keep the roads passable.

"We needed to push more to being with when it wasn’t too bad," Todd said. "But it started snowing harder and they started getting slick. We had them pretty well passable, most of them."

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