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PUBLIC NOTICE

CITY OF WOONSOCKET

 

 

June 8, 2018

 

YARD WASTE

 

Residents are reminded that curbside pick-up of yard waste (grass clippings, small branches, weeds, etc.) ends the week of June 11th on your normal collection day.

 

The drop-off site in Blackstone, MA, off Canal Street (North Smithfield) will continue to be open on Wednesdays and Saturdays, for those residents having the appropriate yard waste sticker (TAN for 2018); all residential properties in the City of Woonsocket are included in the yard waste drop-off program.  Stickers can be obtained, for a $25.00 fee, at City Hall in the Department of Public Works, Monday through Friday 8:30 am – 4 pm.  Proper identification and vehicle registration is required.  Commercial vehicle registrations are excluded from this program.

 

Residents are reminded that it is illegal to throw yard waste in the household waste collection carts and/or recycle carts.

 

Curbside yard waste collection will resume in October.

 

Questions can be directed to the Solid Waste Division at (401) 767-8880.

    

It's now four weeks and counting for the partial government shutdown. Today is Day 28 of the shutdown, which is raising tensions in Washington. On Wednesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent President Trump a letter asking him to delay next week's State of the Union address. Yesterday, President Trump responded by denying Pelosi permission to travel to Afghanistan on a military plane.        Thousands of protestors will gather on the National Mall today for the annual March for Life. It's the largest annual anti-abortion demonstration in the country and has been taking place since the Supreme Court's Roe v Wade decision in 1973. Attendees will march up Constitution Avenue to the Capitol and the Supreme Court. President Trump is expected to address the crowd in a video message.        Northern New England could get over three feet of snow this weekend. Forecasters say the powerful storm is moving from the Midwest to the East Coast, dropping heavy snow along the way. The storm will move into the Northeast on Saturday and Sunday, bringing up to 30 inches of snow to parts of Pennsylvania and New York. Northern New England could get up to 40 inches.        The Los Angeles Unified School District and the teacher's union are expected to continue negotiations today. Talks resumed yesterday at City Hall and Mayor Eric Garcetti mediated. The union says teachers will continue their strike into day five today and until an agreement is reached.       Arizona police say a suspect shot by a deputy near Phoenix earlier this month may have been acting on behalf of ISIS. Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone said there was an extensive investigation into 18-year-old Ismail Hamed, and it appears that he had been radicalized. Hamed was shot on January 7th after he came at a deputy with a knife.        Netflix is reporting a huge leap in subscribers. The streaming giant says it added nearly nine-million new subscribers in the last three months of 2018, the biggest jump ever for the company. Netflix now has nearly 140-million subscribers worldwide. The company's revenue in the last three months jumped 27-percent.        

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