Up until this week, it has really been a mild transition to the cooler weather of the late fall season and early winter - which has allowed a central Illinois community to take up a few projects they may not have been able to otherwise.

Lincoln Mayor Tracy Welch indicates the mild weather so far in November is giving city crews a chance to address a collapsed culvert as well as a sinkhole on Fifth Street.

Hear more from Mayor Welch next month on Regional Radio.