Close to 70 percent of the state’s biosolids end up in a landfill, according to the DEC; just 16 percent is considered “beneficial use,” meaning recycled, while the remainder is set aflame.
The school board here will decide at its March 10 meeting on a $1.7 million vehicle-purchase proposition that does not include electric buses and on a capital-reserve proposition that would allow a maximum of $20 million in funding.
Mayor Rich Straut in a Feb. 9 letter to Governor Kathy Hochul asked that “Norfolk Southern be added to the State of New York’s list of non-responsible, debarred, or otherwise ineligible contractors, and precluded from applying for future grants of New York State taxpayer dollars.”
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