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Fall's Last Hurrah
'Leave' it to high winds and rain --- beautiful autumn, with its bold primary colors, gets banished. More photos on page 4 and additional photos on our FB page, Putnam Town Crier & Northeast Ledger, on Wednesday night. Linda Lemmon photo.
By Linda Lemmon
Town Crier Editor
PUTNAM — A couple record temperatures, winds, rainstorms and finally finally most of the leaves are down.
After just finishing up Woodstock Avenue Highway Superintendent Travis Sirrine said the town is vacuuming leaves.
“We’re finishing up paving projects so we’re on top of it (leaf collection) until Dec. 1,” he said.
The town generally starts leaf collection the last Monday in October and continues through Dec. 1.
Leaves must be at the edge of the property, unbagged. The truck-mounted vacuum must be able to reach the leaf pile. Driveway and lawn collections are not provided.
According to the town’s Curbside program, leaf collection begins in the Special Services District and works out to the other districts. Vacuum collections are weather and volume dependent so specific days of collection cannot be provided.
Collections continue until Dec. 1 or until weather conditions (snow) cease efforts.
He added leaves are not collected in the spring and asks that sidewalks not be blocked with leaves.
Brush is not collected again until the last full work week of April. It is also collected the last full work week of September. He added that if there is a major damaging storm brush would be collected.