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The Lancaster selectmen filled former chairman Troy Merner’s seat with Kathy Lavoie, the woman who blew the whistle on Merner for moving out of Lancaster and continuing to serve on the selectboard, and as Coos County District 1 state Representative, which ultimately led to him resigning from both.
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The state’s newly released 10-year solid waste management plan — the first update since 2003 — appears not to have swayed the opinions of those who submitted testimony disparaging an early draft of the plan released last May.
Following the vote in the state Senate Thursday to sustain Gov. Chris Sununu’s veto of HB 1454, which would establish a formula for determining the distance a new landfill must be located from perennial water sources, Rep. Megan Murray, D-Amherst, has re-filed the bill for the 2023 legislative session.
Gov. Chris Sununu Thursday had a perfect record as the legislature sustained all eight of his vetoes including one that would have enhanced regulations for siting landfills that was overridden in the House.
Voters worried about the impact of a new landfill in town had enacted a temporary zoning ordinance aimed at stopping Casella Waste Systems’ plans to site such a facility near Forest Lake State Park.
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.
When testifying in support of his bill to create a waste management fund, Sen. David Watters, D-Dover, referred to the “solid waste capacity crisis” in New Hampshire. According to a 2019 report by the Department of Environmental Services, landfills in the state will soon run out of capacity to take trash and other refuse.
BERLIN — A public hearing on the proposed expansion of the Mount Carberry landfill in the town of Success brought only one comment, and that was largely in praise of the operation.