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“Outstanding service. They were extremely careful delivering the extra large container into our driveway.” -- A. L. GARNER
TLA-Holbrook LLC to build a 1,000 ton per day trash transfer station on Phillips Street just off Route 138 near the Randolph-Holbrook commuter rail station. Trash would be brought to the facility by truck and shipped out by either train or truck. There would also be a drop-off area for Holbrook residents to bring their trash.The board opened hearings on the proposal last week, with the hearings set to resume Tuesday night at the John F. Kennedy Elementary School, 245 S. Franklin St.Last month, state environmental officials last month ruled the site is suitable for a solid waste facility, with two additional state approvals needed before the transfer station can open.In a letter to residents dated Friday, Randolph Town Council President Kenrick Clifton noted the opposition to the transfer station from residents and officials from Randolph and surrounding communities. He thanked them for their support over many years to highlight the problems with the proposed facility.“If the Holbrook Board of Health finds in favor of TLA’s request for a site assignment, the Town of Randolph is committed to pursuing an available and appropriate avenues of appeal, including an appeal to the Massachusetts Superior Courts,” Clifton wrote.The town is a party in the health board hearings on the transfer statio... (Enterprise News)
Austin in 2005. “We are in dire need of income. We have a new school we have to pay for. We’ll be sharing the cost of a water treatment plant with Randolph and Braintree.”The trash transfer station will generate an estimated $600,000 a year in income for Holbrook. In addition, Holbrook residents will have their trash picked up and disposed of at no cost, at a savings of thousands of dollars.Read the full story here. (waste360)
The most recent report came Saturday afternoon in the 1500 block of Randolph Street. A 73-year-old woman called police to tell them somebody had dumped her trash can out in an alley behind her house. The woman, who is diabetic, told police the person who went through the trash took all of the needles she had used for her injections. And she’s not the only one who says they’ve had their trash rifled through.“It’s one thing to go dumpster diving and looking for an old chair,” said neighbor, Robin Hadley. “But for someone to fine tooth comb your trash is creepy.”Hadley, who is also a nurse, suspects drug users are responsible the mess being made on her street.“They’re probably using them for drugs,” Hadley said. “I doubt they’re using them for diabetes.”Pam Thevenow, Administrator for Water Quality and Hazardous Materials Management with the Marion County Health Department, says people digging through trash for needles is more common than most people realize. Especially, she says, since the recent surge of heroin use in central Indiana.Thevenow says the health department has been working on the problem of used needle disposal since the early 2000s, partially as a response to s... (Fox 59)
Promise Zones"This summer we are putting somewhere around 60-70 young people to work in faith-based organizations," said Pastor Robert Randolph, Kingdom Faith Fellowship Church.Kingdom Faith Fellowship Church is just one of the many organizational partners. 15-year-old Deandre Hillsman likes the sound of that."Right now I'm just, I'm not really doing anything this summer. I'm looking for a job right now," said Hillsman.img data-attachment-id="812070" data-permalink="http://fox6... (fox6now.com)
Heights residents, the spot is a symbol of environmental oppression by a heartless gang of outsiders. Just like when murderous Hatfields surrounded Randolph McCoy’s cabin on Jan. 1, 1888, Madison Heights is way outnumbered, and surrounded on three sides by SOCRRA towns – which are Berkley, Beverly Hills, Birmingham, Clawson, Ferndale, Hazel Park, Huntington Woods, Lathrup Village, Oak Park, Pleasant Ridge, Royal Oak and Troy.To block SOCRRA's move back into its backyard, Madison Heights officials burst into the site -- armed with a search warrant -- and then inspected the area, declared it unsafe and threw up barricades. Last week, SOCRRA sued to get back in. Next week, if SOCRRA loses in court, its arch foe will have delayed and possibly blocked indefinitely the authority's $12-million plan to make recycling easier for 700,000 people in Oakland County, General Manager Jeff McKeen said."Our goal is just to do a great job of handling solid waste for our members," McKeen said. The authority’s plan to expand was blessed months ago by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, he said, adding: "We think we’re regulated by the state -- not by Madison Heights."Yet, if SOCRRA prevails in court, Madison Heights will have to tolerate six days a week of truck traffic all summer, bringing yard waste and construction debris to a spot bordered by homes, a school, a baseball field and a golf course, Mayor Brian Hartwell said. SOCRRA might not care about that, but it can't deny the city's ability to close off a dangerous site, Hartwell said."When our fire chief and building inspector went through there, they found over 50 clear violations of our building and fire codes. And we're not talking nickel-and-dime things like a cracked window or graffiti. Those are there. But we're talking about doors welded shut, large sections of masonry falling apart," Hartwell said.The city even wonders whether SOCRRA's giant smokestacks towering over an adjoining baseball field might collapse. So, after the inspections, the city closed the ball field closest to the stacks, officials said.NUSOCRRA's overall plan, one that state environmental honchos praise, is to upgrade the authority's main recycling facility in Troy so that it's a state-of-the-art,"single-stream" process, then spend nearly $5 million to buy 110,000 jumbo recycling carts for residents of its member cities. The hope is that people will double the amount they recycle because, with no need to sort paper from plastic, they'll just toss everything into the big new carts -- exceeding Gov. Rick Snyder's goal to push Michigan's recycling participation rate from its dismal 15% in 2014 to 30% this year, McKeen said.ENDNUDuring a four-to-six-month construction phase in Troy, SOCRRA hoped to temporarily reopen its facility in Madison Heights to handle part of its trash and recycling flow, he said.But whether SOCRRA's fresh trash incursion lasts weeks, months, or all year, Madison Heights officials are adamant a... (Detroit Free Press)