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Volume 22, Number 15
Thursday, May 30, 2019
Berlin partnering with textile recycling firm By Devin Leith-Yessian The Citizen
A new recycling service will be launching in town next month, promising to save residents space in their closets and spare the town a few dollars on disposal costs.
Ohio-based company Simple Recycling will begin collecting used textiles, such as old clothes, shoes, belts or handbags, on June 17 in pink bags which will be mailed to households. Each recycling collection day, the company will pick up the
bags, which should be left curbside, and leave a replacement attached to the recycling bin. Deputy Public Works Director Jim Horbal said it’s a “win-win” for the town, which gets paid by the ton collected rather than paying
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to dispose of the refuse. The company already operates in Newington, New Britain and Plainville, among other Connecticut towns. “We will be reducing the tonnage collected,” Horbal said. “Where we pay $64 a ton to dispose of it … the
Simple Recycling contract will be reimbursing the town $20 a ton collected.” Every recycling collection, which the town is currently paid $9 a ton for, would become a costly expense to the See Textile, A40
Plans taking shape for barber academy By Devin Leith-Yessian The Citizen
Cecunjanin sees people looking to break into the men’s grooming field comAn internationally-acing to him for training, inclaimed barber is looking to spiring him to open open a trade school and a school. spa for men on the Berlin Turnpike at the former site The plan is to convert a plot which has gone unof a nightclub which used for years, since a fire burned down in 2015. destroyed Synn Lounge, “There is a great barbering into MC Barber Academy. industry right now,” said A text amendment CecunMerhan Cecunjanin, who janin applied for was apwas awarded the second proved by the Planning place medal for best lowand Zoning Commission cut fade at the Hairworld at its May 16 meeting. 2018 World Cup in Paris.
Joel Silvestro sits in front of his shop on Farmington Avenue with his patriotic artwork, waiting for the start of Berlin’s Memorial Day parade. This scene has played out for approximately 20 years, becoming a parade tradition. | Photo by Lee Roski
The demand for men’s grooming has been steadily growing, Cecunjanin said, to the point where men will spend as much as three times what a woman might.
The amendment allows special permits for vocational schools like the one he is seeking to open. See Barber, A37