DANVILLE — The Danville Mass Transit stepped in over the weekend for dialysis patients following Friday’s closure of CRIS Rural Mass Transit District.
Mayor Rickey Williams Jr. shared he “couldn’t be prouder” of the DMT and the director, Steve White.
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