Tuesday, June 06, 2006

 

Officials visit landfill before expansion ruling

BY Robert Wang
The Canton Repository

PIKE TWP - The lawyers dressed like construction workers. The appeals commissioners wore jeans and hard hats. And the court reporter struggled to type — as she rode on a bumpy gravel road at the Countywide Recycling and Disposal Facility.

Amid the steady rain, two of the three women who could decide Countywide’s future toured the landfill for less than an hour Friday. At stake: Millions of dollars in revenue, waste disposal for millions of Northeast Ohioans and the quality of life for hundreds of southern Stark County residents. ... Read more.