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WHITEFIELD â North Country residents and conservation groups will rally Wednesday, July 14, at White Mountain Regional High School to urge the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services Wetlands Bureau to reject a pending permit for a 189-acre landfill in Dalton adjacent to Forest Lake State Park.
A public hearing begins at 3 p.m. at the high school to hear testimony on Casella Waste Systems Inc.âs proposal for a sprawling landfill it estimates will eventually bury 468,000 tons of garbage â 49 percent from out-of-state annually.
A rally will be held at 2 p.m. before the full hearing.
âWe expect a large crowd to show up for the July 14 hearing,â said North Country Alliance for Balanced Change board of directors President Eliot Wessler. âNorth Country people see that a large Vermont corporation is trying to ram another landfill down their throats, and they donât like it. Thousands of people, not only from Dalton, but
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SHAFTSBURY â On the cusp of assuming managerial responsibilities for the municipal transfer station, the town is seeking to hire a part-time supervisor for the North Road site.
At a Select Board meeting last week, Town Administrator David Kiernan said a new contract with Casella Waste Systems, Inc., the company that has managed the town-owned facility since acquiring TAM in 2019, is nearly finalized, with only hauling fees âand some nuts and boltsâ still to be determined.
âWeâre all working together fine,â Kiernan said of the two parties during the June 30 meeting. âWeâre all (headed) in the same direction.â
CONCORD — The Senate killed the hopes of those fighting a proposed landfill in Dalton when it voted to kill a bill that would require a 2-mile buffer around state