Waits Over An Hour, Record Haul Seen On Hazardous Waste Day Advertising Called Key To Success By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com MIDDLEFIELD – Tonnage and volume are still being tallied, but the car count is in, and 920 vehicles lined up to drop off paint, e-waste, prescriptions – you name it – at Household Hazardous Waste Day Saturday, Sept 21, at the county government’s Meadows Office Complex. That was up from 500 last year, almost double, county Planning Director…
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Annual Trash Day Packed, With Waits Up To 90 Minutes Due To Crush, Drop-Off Extended Until All Served At Meadows Complex By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com MIDDLEFIELD – “A record,” Erik Scrivener, the senior county planner, called out as he directed drivers, some who had been lined up this morning for 90 minutes, to their final destination: the annual Hazardous Household Waste Day at the county’s Meadows Office Complex. By 9 a.m., probably sooner, traffic was backed up ¾-miles…
CLICK TO READ ‘TINY HOMES, BIG IDEAS’ First 2 Tiny Homes In Place At Meadows Brian Wilcox, of Wilcox Construction Co., Norwich, top, examines the first two of 15 “tiny homes” behind the county’s Meadows Office Complex, Town of Middlefield. The small structures are a county Board of Representatives’ initiative to provide temporary housing for the county’s homeless. Inset, Senior County Planner Erik Scrivener examines the space in one of the structures where the bathroom will be located. The bathroom…
