Steam billows from a tall stack near the power block facility at the MIRA trash-to-energy facility in Hartford’s South Meadows. (Cloe Poisson, CTMirror.org)
The Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority plant is a hulking presence on the Connecticut River along Hartford’s southeast flank – a sprawling complex of buildings and emissions stacks that was constructed for another time and use.
It shows.
In the winding corridors and rooms of this fortress-like structure which originally burned coal to make electricity and now burns trash to generate a small portion of the state’s power ceiling tiles are stained and warped after years of absorbing explosions from objects like gas canisters that mistakenly wind up in the waste stream. It’s noisy and it smells, though given the nearly 3,000 tons of trash cycled daily through cavernous holding areas across what seems like miles of conveyors and into the incinerator next door, logic says it ought to smell worse.
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Serenity Gershon and Joshua Reneau were arrested Wednesday. (Riverside County Sheriff s Department)
MORENO VALLEY, CA A duo suspected of robbing Southern Californians of their French bulldogs were arrested this week by Moreno Valley deputies, the Riverside County Sheriff s Department reported.
Joshua Reneau, 29, and Serenity Gershon, 20, both from Hawthorne, were taken into custody Wednesday on suspicion of second-degree robbery and conspiracy to commit a crime, jail records show.
Both were taken into custody in Hawthorne. They were released from Riverside s Robert Presley Detention Center Thursday in lieu of $30,000 bail each, according to jail records.
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Around 9:21 p.m. Monday, deputies out of the Moreno Valley Sheriff s Station were called to the 11000 block of Ohio Street in Moreno Valley about a robbery at gunpoint.