Garbage collection returns to twice a week after protest
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StraughterBy JAMIE PATTERSON
Managing Editor
Garbage will be picked up twice a week again in Yazoo City after numerous complaints from citizens.
The Board of Mayor and Aldermen first moved garbage pickup to once a week a few weeks ago. Since then, City Hall has been flooded with phone calls from concerned citizens who felt it was unfair to pay the same fee for fewer pickup days.
The move back to twice a week pickup was approved by the board during its open meeting Monday afternoon.
“I have been getting a ton of phone calls,” said Mayor McArthur Straughter. “My own garbage can fills up rapidly. I think it needs to go back to a two-day pickup.”
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Dear Editor:
In the 6 April 2013 edition of The Yazoo Herald you published a letter from Cynthia Fuller, "Thanks to (Van) Foster for helping get bridge replaced."
After reading this lettter, I had the impression that the bridge was completed and traffic was moving along normally.
Wrong! Last Sunday I was on my way to homecoming at Providence Baptist Church. I turned north onto old 49 and saw the signs that the bridge was out. I assumed that they hadn't gotten around to removing the signs. I expected to cross Thompson Creek on the new bridge. When I approached the creek the road was barricaded and construction equipment was down in the creek.
Perhaps The Herald can keep us updated as to the progress being made on the new bridge.
Nan Harvey
Jackson, MS
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