Quint Quiram, Princeton’s superintendent of streets, said it’s a first for him to see snow on Halloween, but nonetheless, his department was ready for it. Quiram said he sent two drivers out around 5 a.m. today to plow and spread salt around the schools and on the hills and bridges around town. Then at 7 a.m., all crew members were sent out in the trucks to take care of main roadways in town. He planned to keep his drivers out until about 1 p.m. today. They were keeping busy plowing slush and snow and spreading light salt on the roadways. Quiram said this kind of weather reminds him of the fall of 1997 when crews were plowing snow in October. It didn’t snow on the actual Halloween holiday that year, but the colder-than-normal conditions created ice on branches, which kept the street department crew busy until Thanksgiving clearing broken trees branches around town. According to Bob Byrne, a member of the cooperative observer program with the National Weather Service — Quad Cities, Princeton received 3.5 inches of snow on Halloween, noting the snowfall seemed to be letting up as of 11:30 a.m. Thursday. Byrne said the Princeton area has had earlier snowfalls in t...