Article: Animal control officer rescues trapped beaver; Position could hinge on Wong's trash fee plan.(LOCAL NEWS)

Article: Wong's budget slices police, fire; Trash fee may ...
Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA);  May 16, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... should the city adopt a trash fee, Ms. Wong said after ... meeting last night. The trash fee would also allow the ... restore a part-time animal control officer and bolster other ... each department if the trash fee is enacted, she said ...

Article: TRASH-FEE FUNDS WERE LEGALLY SPENT REVIEW: CHICK ...
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  July 9, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Byline: Kerry Cavanaugh Staff Writer Trash-fee increases imposed on Angelenos two years ... into how the city spent funds from the trash-fee increase -- and whether the funds paid ... percent increase that will push the monthly trash fee to $36. The controller found that the ...

Article: Trash fee assailed by school board
The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  February 11, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... the selectmen's decision to add a trash fee undermined their efforts. The selectmen ... will likely be a $150-a-year trash fee and increased the commuter lot parking fee from $1 to $3 a day. The trash fee will bring in $1 million, eliminating ...

Article: TRASH FEE HIKE CAN'T COVER COP ADDITIONS COST: ...
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  April 21, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Kerry Cavanaugh Staff Writer The L.A. trash fee hikes enacted over the past two years ... previous mayors' efforts to raise the trash fee were shot down, residents and neighborhood ... week that he will propose boosting the trash fee again -- to $36 a month -- to keep ...

Article: Mayor blasts trash fee snub; Mylott won't cut ...
Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA);  June 7, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... proposal to enact a budget-balancing trash fee, Mayor Dan H. Mylott fired back and ... They need to act. They do not want the trash fee, then they can come up with an alternative ... the $760,000 the mayor estimated for trash fee receipts, another 15 to 20 jobs could ...

Article: Randolph's trash fee could double; Paying for trash
The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  April 26, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... ask town meeting to double the town's trash fee instead of adopting a pay-as-you ... selectmen voted to support raising the annual trash fee from $100 to $200 per household. Senior ... million. "People don't resent the trash fee as long as everything is picked up and ...

Article: Trash-fee talk refuses to die down
The Boston Globe;  August 14, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... asked the Town Council to bring the trash-fee matter up for discussion at one of its ... Balanced Government, which opposes a trash fee. Last month, the organization collected ... there is enough resident support for a trash fee. In a statement titled "Let the Citizens ...