Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Selectmen started talking about the trash pickup proposal last week.
Selectman Barry Greenfield proposes that the town institute a "pay as you go" trash pickup system as a fair solution to the condo trash collection issue. His proposal, which 130 Massachusetts communities use, would refund the trash pickup costs to town residents and charge them for each bag of trash they put out for collection. The town would save money, and residents would pay only for the trash they disposed of, Greenfield said. Selectman Glenn Kessler agreed that the "pay as you go" system may work for Swampscott. The system would require residents to pay a fixed price for each bag or can of garbage they generate in much the same way they pay for other utilities such as electricity and water service. In most localities, the per-bag or…
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011
People are tossing flood-soaked items; and others are claiming them.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Renee LaLone and her mom cruised the neighborhood slowly Tuesday morning, casting eyes side-to-side. There. They spied a white rocking chair and plucked it. It was in a curbside pile fronting a home off Paradise Road. Renee wedged the rocker into the back of her car, and the two shoved off for the next stop — yet to be discovered. Welcome to the Swampscott world of trash-to-treasure recycling. Chairs and desks, and couches and cabinets that once sat inside homes now stand outside them in the wake of last week’s flash flooding in town. There’s plenty of competition for the stuff. The mother-daughter-duo didn’t know it but they beat the competition to the rocking chair. A woman in a new looking mini-van who had just salvaged furniture from…
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Photos of tossed trash and a couple's cellar Thursday on Bates Road in the wake of Tuesday's flooding.
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Thursday, October 6, 2011
Dmitry and Yelena Yumansky heard a bang early Tuesday morning. The noise came from their basement. A sheet of water knocked in the bulkhead door and rushed into their finished basement. Yelena went downstairs into ankle-deep water. In a few minute the water was up to her thighs. Later, with help from neighbors, they pumped out their basement. They threw away a Dumpster full of furniture, electronics and appliances. They threw away clothes and ruined keepsakes including old record albums of Russian composers that their parents had given them. Yelena spoke with a Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency representative at Town Hallon Wednesday. The representative said it was unlikely that they would receive any assistance since the threshold…
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
Health Department warns offenders not to 'overhaul' recycled trash.
Scavengers looting through trash for items to sell are “a minor nuisance” to health department officials, but what they are doing – called overhauling – is illegal, said Health Director Jeff Vaughan Wednesday. The Town Hall department does not get a lot of complaints about scavengers, but when it does, officials try to get the license tag of the scavenger and have the police department send a letter warning them that it is illegal, Vaughan said. The biggest concern, he said, is possibility of identity theft. One resident recently complained to Patch about a man in a truck with Maine plates going through his trash. “We don't have many from Maine,” Vaughan said. “We have enough from Massachusetts and New Hampshire.” Scavengers are a problem…
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Town must save at least $140,000 a year on reduced trash before it can afford additional pickups.
The town may move to once-a-week recycled trash pickup as soon as the savings from the reduced trash pickup reaches at least $140,000 a year. That is the cost of adding a second truck and crew to pick up recycled trash, said Martha Dansdill, the chairman of the town's health board. “It is definitely on our radar screen,” she said. A goal of the new trash pickup program that begins Oct. 1 is to move to weekly recycling. Because the recycled trash is co-mingled, the town does not get paid for its recycled materials, except for paper, which goes up and down in price. “Recycling is not free,” Dansdill said. But once the town realizes savings from reducing the amount of regular trash, adding more recycling pickups would become possible, she …
David Arsenault
6:07 pm on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Ya, I heard that but this isn't ground water it comes from all the street run off flowing down to one spot from three hills, (flash flooding). Not only were homes built here but the State put a road through the same place but not enough drainage. Southbound side of 1A would work. more ›