WINTERSVILLE — The agenda for Tuesday’s Wintersville Council meeting was light, with much of the focus on the plowing of local streets and the upcoming holidays’ effect on village services.

Officials applauded village personnel, including Village Administrator Jesse Kosegi, for their efforts in seeing Wintersville’s roads were cleared of snow on Saturday.

Councilman Jason Mattern also expressed praise, noting it was challenging for crews to keep up with the steady snowfall through the day.

But he asked if in the future, crews could return to streets to clear areas where cars had been parked but since moved.

Mattern and Mayor Mike Petrella said residents are asked to move their vehicles into their driveways, when possible, to allow plows to get through.

Petrella said the plows usually can clear most of a street if there are no parked vehicles along it.

A village policy allows police to cite the owners of vehicles who don’t move them and don’t have a snow parking permit.

Petrella said the permit, issued through council’s street committee, allows vehicles to be parked on the streets under certain circumstances, such as medical conditions that require residents to park where they do.

He said many residents have driveways where they can park, but a growing number of families have multiple vehicles.

In other business, Petrella said the village offices will be closed on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day and garbage routes that normally would be collected on that day will be collected with Friday’s.

He added council’s next meeting, which normally would be held on the first Thursday of January, has been moved to 7 p.m. Jan. 6 because that is New Year’s Day.

Petrella also announced winners of Wintersville Council’s Christmas lighting contest.

He and the six council members each year select seven homes they believe are the best decorated.

This year’s winners are homes at the following addresses: 116 Tera Manor, 215 Leonard Ave., 178 Garden Drive, 167 Parkview Drive, 345 Springdale Ave., 429 Eisenhower Drive and 208 South Avalon Drive.

Each resident will receive a $50 cash prize.

Mattern said it was fun this year judging the homes while accompanied by his 2-year-old grandson.

Also on Tuesday, Petrella reflected on the recent retirement of Joe McGlothlin from the village’s police department.

He said McGlothlin, who also has served in various positions with the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District, taught him a lot about grants, leadership and life in general and will be missed.