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Joe Fusco, vice-president of Casella Waste Systems, Inc., said the company is “committed to fighting” legislation that would prevent it from opening a landfill in Dalton, New Hampshire.
John Casella, chair and chief executive officer of Casella Waste Systems, Inc., has withdrawn Granite State Landfill’s application for a wetlands permit for the company’s proposed landfill in Dalton, but he said the project remains vitally important “and we intend to see it through to completion.”
After hearing from a few residents on Nov. 15, selectmen decided to schedule a special forum to gather more public comment on the proposed trucking route through Bethlehem that would serve a new landfill in neighboring Dalton.
A merger between Concord Hospital and LRGHealthcare in Laconia, foreclosures, and abandoning seven miles of rail-trail between Bethlehem and Littleton to make it good for recreational use were among the issues discussed by the Governor and Executive Council on Wednesday.
Have a beer and enjoy the foliage in Bethlehem, Lancaster and Colebrook breweries.
At the core of the forest service’s deliberations is the tricky question: how wild should the wilderness be?