Every Day is Trash Day -- Shelby County Moves to Make Owners Clean Up Rundown Properties
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By Alex Doniach / doniach@commercialappealcom  Paul Hein bought a home in his quiet Northaven suburb 28 years ago - before his neighbors became renters who let their weeds grow wild and trash collect on their front lawns.
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By Tim Ellis, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Sep. 21--Area residents can expect to see a lot of activity over the next two weeks as the pace of work picks up on an expansion project at the county landfill on the western edge of Sahuarita.
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By Lisa P. White, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  Sep. 22--BELLEVILLE -- The city's two new automated trash trucks are scheduled to start making the rounds through some of the newer subdivisions the week of Nov. 6.
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By Hays Burchfield, The Star, Shelby, N.C.  Sep. 12--SHELBY -- Cleveland County Board of Education members met in  closed session after their regular meeting Monday night to discuss who to  select from the 21 applicants for the next superintendent.
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By Hays Burchfield, The Shelby Star, N.C.  Jun. 22--SHELBY -- Despite not getting home until around 3 a.m. Thursday because of a traffic jam in the Atlanta area, Cleveland County Lean Council members said their trip to Alabama was worthwhile.
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By Scott Harper, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Sep. 14--PORTSMOUTH -- SPSA, the regional waste authority, learned this week that burning rain-soaked garbage at its power plant near downtown Portsmouth is not such a good idea.   Actually, it stinks.
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By Vivian Austin, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 18--PASCAGOULA -- Sometimes individuals and groups in Jackson County do not have much to give back to volunteers for their long hours and hard work.
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By Shawntaye Hopkins, The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  May 29--There are signs of improvement in Lexington mobile home parks: sealed skirting, repaired porches and mounds of trash that have been replaced by litter and light debris.
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By Steve Lyttle, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 8--The federal government is offering Mecklenburg County a big assistance in getting rid of Charlotte's most flood-prone residential area.
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By Monica Chen, The Herald, Rock Hill, S.C.  Feb. 27--CLOVER -- York County is not yet done with one landfill dispute, but it soon might be taking up another.
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Anne Arundel County and state officials are calling for federal authorities to clean up a former pharmaceutical factory that holds more than 50,000 gallons of hazardous chemicals and could have devastating effects if it catches fire.
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By James Mayse, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Sep. 16--When Bill Froehlich worked for the state Transportation Cabinet, his boss often called out work crews to clean up trash he'd spotted along the highways.
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By Bob Downing, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Jun. 2--BOLIVAR -- The Stark County engineer will ask a landfill operator for money to help repair county roads used by garbage trucks en route to the company site.
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By Marc Benjamin, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Dec. 11--With water wells running dry and well contamination reported in some areas, Fresno County is working to secure rights to 5,000 acre-feet of water each year.
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By Karen Nelson, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 18--PASCAGOULA -- Jackson County supervisors will again consider an appeal from a Florida developer who wants to build something other than single-family homes in an area of Fontainebleau north of St. Andrews.
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By Karen Nelson, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 11--OCEAN SPRINGS -- Jackson County supervisors have asked staff to help find a way that would allow volunteers with a major relief operation to continue using the county landfill for refuse they create when they reconstruct homes.
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