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THE TRIBUNE-P HONOGRAPH PUBLISHED IN ABBOTSFORD THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1970
Expanded mail delivery for city residents
Seventh District Congressman Dave Obey announced that he has been advised by Postmaster General Winton M. Blount of a major new postal service program that will expand home deliveries to an additional 4 million Americans, principally in small communities, for the first time. The announcement was received at the Tribune-Phonograph office at press time Wednesday afternoon. It includes Abbotsford, Colby, Curtiss, Unity and Dorchester in our area. Under the program, persons living more than a quarter mile, but less than half a mile from 18,700 post office do not have city delivery are now eligible to receive the delivery at home. Previously, they have been compelled to go the post office for their mail.
Since they live less than half a mile away from a post office, they have not been eligible to receive rural delivery service prior to the new order, the congressman said. And because they live near a post office that does not have city delivery, they have missed out there too.
Congressman Obey said he had been advised that the postmaster general is issuing instructions in the postal bulletin Thursday, Feb. 12, 1970, making the service available to the 1.2 million families living in the eligible areas.
The new service will be offered only if it is requested of the local postmaster, and a majority of those living in the area must desire the service. The expansion will be achieved by such steps as extending shorter rural routes and adding delivery stops to some rural routes.
THE TRIBUNE-P HONOGRAPH PUBLISHED IN ABBOTSFORD WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1990
Mayville’s dump will be closing soon
The Town of Mayville’s dump will be closing soon, and town residents and the Village of Dorchester will be taking their garbage elsewhere.
Mayville Town Chairman Wilfred Heindl confi rmed this week that the town dump will stay open no later than April 1, and may close sooner if the word is received that new federal landfill regulations will be published before that date. The regs will require monitoring well and expensive abandonment procedures that town offi cials want to avoid. Virtually all town dumps in this area will be closed by this spring.
Heindl said the annual meeting is scheduled for April 4, so town residents will have the opportunity to decide at that time how they want to handle Mayville garbage — individually contracting with private firms, having the town contract for green collection boxes or other alternatives.
Heindl said Liberty Homes and Northwest Hardwoods of Dorchester were both hauling to the Mayville dump, which he said was one of the few sites in the area that actually made money. They will also have to find another site. So will residential and commercial customers in the Village of Dorchester, who were also customers at the Mayville site. The village’s garbage truck picked up refuse from residential, commercial and industrial sites and hauled it to Mayville.
That will continue to for just more Wednesdays, Feb. 21 and 27, said Village Clerk Judy Robida this week.
