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The city’s 1-year agreement with WasteZero, of Raleigh, North Carolina, which supplies purple trash bags, expired June 30. The city is proposing a 2-year continuation of the agreement. The prices will remain the same for the city: $0.2328 for small, 15-gallon bags and $0.3475 for large, 30-gallon bags. Residents pay $10 for eight small bags and $10 for five large bags at retail sites. A memo from Public Works Director Mark Turner to the mayor and council says annual sales for large bags total about 110,000 units, while yearly sales for small bags are about 50,000. “Based on this, current annual service fees are estimated to be $49,865,” his memo says. “Fees are automatically deducted from monthly revenue generated by sales of bags at local retail outlets and provides for manufacturing, distribution and account reconciliation for all points of purchase locations.” In other matters, the council will consider issuing an outdoor dining permit to 18 Below after having postponed taking a second, final vote July 3. The council took a first vote to approve the request June 5. Councilors also will consider approving a lease of land to Peter MacDonald of Ontarget Systems LLC at the city-owned Robert LaFleur airport for constructing a 44-by-44-foot aircraft hangar. The lease rate would be $350 and would increase 15 percent every five years, according to the resolution. The council will consider appropriating $3,451 in proceeds from the airport equipment public auction and $1,204 from airport fenc... (ash bag contract renewal, airport truck and land lease on Waterville council agenda)
A North Carolina man was killed Sunday morning and a second person injured in a freak accident involving a dumpster, according to TV station WMBF. It happened about 11 a.m. at the Campbell’s Soup plant in Maxton, when a dumpster being moved by forklift tumbled off, landing on top of the worker, reported WPDE. The size of the dumpster was not released. There are conflicting reports as to how the second person was hurt. WPDE is reporting the dumpster fell on both workers, while the Robesonian says the second person was injured “while trying to provide help.” ... (mpster kills NC man in freak accident at Campbell's Soup plant, officials say)
North Carolina’s number one industry is agriculture. Just take a scenic drive around any rural town in the Tarheel state and you're bound to see tobacco and sweet potato farmlands of past and present. However, one farming industry is doing its best to remain as hidden as possible.The hog farming business of North Carolina houses roughly 10 million pigs at one time. To put that number into perspective, these hogs produce waste that is equivalent to 10 billion gallons of fecal matter, or enough waste, as Civil Eats described it recently, to fill 15,000 Olympic-size swimming pools. But it wasn’t always this way. In the 1970s, the North Carolina hog farmer only kept an average of 60 hogs at one time. The animals were given free rein to roam the farmland, their fecal matter acting as a natural fertilizer for the land. However, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the farming industry saw an increase in demand, and small-town hog farmers entered contracts with larger companies, which requ...
Tuesday.More than 300 line workers from Arkansas, Virginia, West Virginia and possibly North Carolina will bring equipment and muscle to assist local workers in the effort to restore power. Construction crews will replace poles and lines. Other crews will attend to fallen lines, debris from trees and individual homes whose electric lines need repair.“We’ll do an assessment on damage in South Carolina on Tuesday morning,” said Todd Carter, whose department coordinates assistance for the state’s electric cooperatives.The "First Push Agreement" approved on Sept. 8 by Dorchester County Council and the S.C. Department of Transportation obligates DOT, with help from the county, to begin removing debris from major roadways within five hours of the end of storm conditions, according to county spokeswoman Tiffany Norton.Utility crews will address problems caused by trees in power lines.Though public schools and some businesses will remain closed on Tuesday, many retailers, restaurants and offices will be assessing the storm’s impacts, repairing damage and reopening. Expect more traffic than usual as evacuees stream back into the Lowcountry and beyond. +5 span cl... (Charleston Post Courier)
Energy was still reporting over 99,000 outages in the Palmetto State, with most outages in the Upstate area in Greenville and Pickens counties. In North Carolina, Duke reported over 8,200 outages in Mecklenburg County and over 57,000 total in the state, mostly in western counties and in the Piedmont. CLICK HERE FOR A FULL LIST OF SCHOOL CLOSINGS AND DELAYSIn Georgia, Irma was blamed for three deaths. According to USA TODAY, 35 people were killed in the Caribbean by the dangerous storm. Meteorologist John Wendel said that despite the downgrade in intensity, the remnants of Irma continue to grow in size, with the system now covering over 750 miles from the Atlantic coast all the way to the Mississippi River. FOR THE LATEST WEATHER UPDATES AND ALERTS, DOWNLOAD THE WCNC APPIn South Carolina, coastal areas saw significant storm surge when Irma roared in Monday. Both Isle of Palms and Folly Beach received eight feet more of storm surge than what Matthew brought in 2016, flooding several roads. Charleston Harbor experienced the third-highest storm surge in history at 10 feet Monday. "Normally, you never see waves coming over, and when you do, it's in isolated areas, not the entire battery wall," said one person. Irma's fury concerned a number of residents, who are quickly reminded of Hugo's devastation in 1989. "Everything is measured in terms of when Hugo happened and what happened then," said one resident. Stick with WCNC.com throughout the week for updates on Hurricane Irma and the latest forecast.© 2017 WCNC.COM... (WCNC)
