A couple glitches resulted in a few emailed reservations not being logged, and a couple no-shows, but everyone was in the best of spirits and it turned out to be much easier and faster than we thought. Pick up times being scheduled made it very efficient. By spreading out and assigning pick up times there was never [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Conservation'
Five furry, fishy reasons to recycle
September 23rd, 2009 · Comments Off · Conservation, Environment, Environmental Concerns, Public health, Village Hall
The village will hold its second annual Recycling Extravaganza from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Belmont train station parking lot. Last year, the event collected more than 73 tons of defunct, broken or outdated electronics, plus cell phones, ink-jet cartridges and other environmentally unfriendly cast-offs. With that much toxic trash now out [...]
Village budget: options
July 25th, 2009 · 10 Comments · Conservation, Development, Economic Development, Environment, Fire and police, Stormwater, Strategic Planning, Taxes, Village Council, Village Hall, Village Manager
Last Tuesday was meeting number four for long range budget planning (see reports of meetings one, two, and three here). Led by Village Manager Dave Fieldman, staff laid out various possible options for revenue enhancement and expense trimming in response to the budget crunch that has already seen layoffs, unpaid furloughs, pay freezes, and cost [...]
EAB Update
May 7th, 2009 · Comments Off · Conservation, Environmental Concerns
Two years ago the Village Forester Kerstin G. von der Heide gave a presentation about the Emerald Ash Borer and the certain doom bearing down on over 4,000 ash trees on village parkways. Back then the tiny pest had already killed off about 25 million ash trees in Michigan and Canada.
Coyote ugly
March 18th, 2009 · 15 Comments · Conservation, Environment, Village Council
Along with gypsy moths, raccoons and the annual army of mosquitos, Downers Grove faces another more ominous critter problem. Resident Dave Brown last night warned the village council about the area’s growing coyote population, a “dangerous nuisance” that has implications for public safety. Just last weekend he chased off a coyote that was stalking his [...]
A forest of phone books
August 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Commentary, Conservation, Environment, Features
This from a reader: “Yesterday we got our delivery of not one but two phone books. Even though I do most of my phone number lookups on the computer, I do like having one copy of a phone book on hand for reference. But why do we get two? And if I’m correct, we also [...]
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