Pour warm water into a bucket. Add rock salt crystals to it. (A good ratio is 1 gallon water to 1 cup rock salt, but this is ...

With heavy snow, rain and then ice earlier this week, around western Massachusetts and throughout New England, many store shelves are empty of rock salt or de-icer. Even municipalities are running ...

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However, with the prediction of snow in the forecast, many took to the stores Wednesday to stock up on rock salt and ice melt. But, many shops were short on supplies. Diane Spadafora, who works at ...

Many sidewalks, driveways and parking lots are covered by ice in Massachusetts and stores are low on ice melt.

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“The best time to buy the salt is the pre-season,” Gartland said. “It’s cheaper and more available.” Gartland said he felt “like this is a normal winter” but with a little more i ...