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Soon after the students and teachers fanned out in the neighborhood, England received a voice message from a resident of the Boulevard Heights neighborhood thanking the students for their work and calling it "a sight for sore eyes."The clean-up project is in its third year, and streamlined organization allowed the school this year to expand the territory that is covered. "It's a tremendous thing for St. Mary's and a tremendous thing for our neighborhood," England said.England explained the clean-up is an example of a lesson that "life is not just about you. It's about what you can bring to others. Today's about giving back. Our young men get it. They're out here working so hard because this means something to them."It didn't take Van Valkenburg's crew long to get one side of the street corner looking spotless. "Some of you grab these bags," he said. "We're going to start to move on." Bookmark/Search this post with ... (St.Louis Review)
Woodcock. A massive tree fell near his house, taking out power lines and poles up and down his dead-end street in unincorporated DeKalb’s Eastland Heights neighborhood. His car was stranded behind it.Officials said the county was hardest hit in metro Atlanta Traffic was heavy on metro streets as many returned to work, though some roads remained closed, forcing drivers and MARTA buses to find alternate routes. After shutting down operations Monday, MARTA resumed both rail and bus service. The transit’s CEO, Keith Parker, said bus services would increase as soon as blocked roads could be cleared. Southbound lanes of interstates were packed with Irma evacuees eager to return home, though officials warned it was too soon. Wait another day, GDOT spokeswoman Natalie Dale cautioned. “If you’re headed back, you really need to know what you’re headed back to,” Dale said. “A lot of these places in south Georgia and Florida have no power. There are gas shortages. If they get to south Georgia or north Florida and they run out of gas, there’s a good chance they will not be able to get gas.STEER CLEAR: These are the roads closed in Atlanta after IrmaGETTING AROUND: Metro Atlanta transit to resume Wednesday“If they can wait one more day, they’re going to be headed back to a much safer area,” she said. But for those who left their homes behind in Florida, one more day was a lot to ask. It took Maryam Davani Hosseini three hours Tuesday afternoon to drive from Milton to Forsyth. Her GPS kept telling her it would be a nine-hour drive back to Miami, but it had taken her 20 hours... (Atlanta Journal Constitution)
Fortera Stadium this fall, pushing the defense to reach new heights. "I think we have the potential to be very good, but we still gotta go out and execute," Cooper said. "It's on them how good they're actually going to be. We'... (Clarksville Leaf Chronicle)
Different combinations with bigger bins are available at higher costs.Beth Wells, who owns a condominium unit in Lower Pacific Heights, was flummoxed when the garbage bill for her four-unit building soared from $55 to $98 a month, mostly because of the additional $40 in dwelling unit fees.The “July bill was 78 percent higher than my June bill,” Wells wrote in a peeved email to Recology’s customer service department. She called the new fees “ludicrous.”Recology spokesman Robert Reed defended the hike, saying the dwelling unit fees help cover the costs of running a recycling plant, maintaining a fleet of trucks and paying workers, costs that exist no matter how much material the company collects each week. The fees also pay for citywide services like sidewalk trash cans and hazardous-waste drop-offs, Reed said. For every dwelling in a building, there’s a household benefiting from those services, he said.The city authorized a different rate structure for large apartment buildings, charging them $5 for each dwelling unit and about $24 for each 32-gallon bin, regardless of what it contains. Public Works also lowered the “diversion discounts” it offers these buildings, based on how much they compost and recycle. Most large apartment buildings saw an increase in their bills of 12 to 16 percent overall.In explaining the new structure to the public, city officials emphasized the effect on the typical owner of a single-family residence. People in that category saw a 14 percent jump in July, from $35 to $40 a month for three 32-gallon bins.When the rate structure was proposed, 13 people wrote letters of appeal, some pointing out that the increases would be much higher for landlords of small multiunit buildings. One letter writer accused the city of discriminating against small property owners because they represent a minority of customers.The rate board dismissed those objections when it made its final decision in June. Public Works officials and representatives of Recology said the new rates actually create more parity between small and large apartment buildings in the city: Take a garbage bill, divide it by the number of dwellings, and the average household cost usually falls between $24 and $28 a month for basic service, Reed said.In previous years, small property owners paid less for their units than other customers, said Nuru, noting that the new distribution “is more equitable.”But when the new bills first arrived in late July and August, owners of small buildings and tenants who pay their own trash bills were caught by surprise. Although they were warned that the price was going up — the rate increases were published on city websites and in newspapers, presented to neighborhood groups, and outlined in a letter that Recology sent to all of its residential customers — many had anticipated the 14 percent hike.“I looked (at my bill... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Lavallette, $921,529; Long Beach Township, $809,441; Manchester Township, $226,253; Mantoloking, $306,226; Ocean Township, $69,698; Seaside Heights, $345,112; Seaside Park, $112,581; Ship Bottom, $114,261; Stafford Township, $781,862 and Toms River Township, $2,298,677.In addition, Ocean County will receive $336,458.Patch file photoGet free real-time news alerts from the Manchester Patch.Thanks for your feedback! Now share it with your friends!Thanks for your feedback.-- -- ? Subscribe to the free daily newsletter from Patch-- -- -- -- -- Originally published June 1, 2017.
