NEWPORT — With 160 volunteers springing into action Sunday morning, most of Newport’s roadways underwent a thorough spring cleaning.
“The spirit of this community never ceases to amaze me,” said Newport Recreation Director PJ Lovely.
About 400 bags of rubbish were plucked off the sides of streets and roads throughout the community. “Approximately 70 to 80 percent were covered. We’re still working on the rest,” Lovely reported.
Those bags filled a 30-yard dumpster and part of another one. “It was a great first effort said Newport Town Manager Hunter Rieseberg. Plans call for the spring cleaning to become an annual event.
“The turnout was a wonderful reflection on the community of people caring,” the town manager stated.
Lovely said there were a lot of cans picked up along the collection routes along with fast food containers, bottles and a few tires. “One of the volunteers discovered an abandoned snowmobile left in the Pollard’s Mills area,” he related.
At a meeting of the Newport Board of Selectmen Monday night Bert Spaulding Sr., a resident, said he noticed volunteers working along Chandler’s Mill Road. “One even went down the steep banking on the bank of the Sugar River to pick up litter,” he said.
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