Looking Back Jan. 14, 2021 Posted:
FIFTY YEARS AGO
A propane explosion injured two local men when a truck belonging to Bill’s Catering Service was gutted at the Keystone Centre construction site. A leak in the truck’s propane tank is believed to have caused the explosion.
FORTY YEARS AGO
The Edson manufacturing plant near Rivers will close, throwing 70 employees out of work if the firm cannot find a buyer before May.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Peace marchers filled Lee Clark’s vacated Brandon-Souris constituency office yesterday while the Progressive Conservative MP was in the House of Commons ready to vote in favour of a motion to reaffirm support for United Nations’ force against Iraq.
MARY ANN GREIER
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Overflowing trash containers became the source of complaints in Salem, Perry Township and other communities in recent weeks.
SALEM In the future, trash haulers in Salem could be restricted to daylight pickup hours and required to tell customers about pickup date changes to prevent trash being on curbs for weeks on end.
At least that’s what members of city council’s Rules and Ordinances Committee discussed Tuesday night as a means to address recent trash complaints.
No action was taken, with Councilwoman Cyndi Baronzzi Dickey, who chairs the committee, suggesting further research and talking to trash haulers and other communities about their rules.
As major components of the redevelopment of the shopping centre are being completed, some will be ready prior to the lucrative Christmas season while others such as Target and Marshalls, part of the U.S. retailing wave arriving in Canada, are opening in 2014. “Through the summer, you’re going to have a bunch of new stores that are going to open up,” Burton said from Toronto on Friday. Once completed, the entire centre, including Thrifty Foods and a new, two-storey Target, will measure 590,000 square feet, Burton said. All but 20,000 square feet has been leased and committed. Milestones in the construction work are being unveiled next month.
mgreier@salemnews.net
Overflowing trash containers became the source of complaints in Salem, Perry Township and other communities in recent weeks, with Aarrow Disposal posting on social media about issues with COVID-19 putting their pickup schedules behind. The Rules & Ordinances Committee of Salem City Council discussed overall trash issues Tuesday night. Aarrow did pick up residential trash for customers in Salem recently. (Salem News photo by Mary Ann Greier)
SALEM In the future, trash haulers in Salem could be restricted to daylight pickup hours and required to tell customers about pickup date changes to prevent trash being on curbs for weeks on end.
Lycoming County employment data is edging closer and closer to where it was a year ago, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry. Accord