Proposed landfill settlement eyed warily

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BETHLEHEM, N.H. -- Reaction has been mixed to an offer to settle longstanding legal disputes between the town and the company that owns a landfill in town.

In an offer published in area newspapers Wednesday, Casella Waste Systems Inc. said it would limit expansion of the North Country Environmental Services landfill to 11 acres behond the current 51 acres and pay the town a $10.3 million fee while the landfill operates. . . Read more