August 7, 2025
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Guilford Vol. XXVIII Iss. 32
New Task Force Aims to Expand Food Waste Diversion By Aaron Rubin Staff Writer
The Guilford Board of Selectmen (BOS) has appointed seven members to a newly created Co-Collection Task Force, a group charged with helping develop a more efficient and sustainable food waste diversion program that could serve as a regional model. The task force is part of the Solid Waste,
Recycling, and Food Waste Diversion Initiative led by the Southern Connecticut Regional Council of Governments (SCRCOG). Through a grant from SCRCOG, Guilford is working with consultants from WasteZero to explore a new co-collection model, according to Town Engineer Janice Plaziak. Plaziak told the BOS at its July 21 meet-
ing that Guilford was selected as one of several pilot towns in the region. The new initiative follows Guilford’s previous Food to Clean Energy Pilot Program, which introduced waste separation but ultimately ended due to logistical issues with haulers and the absence of a permanent sorting facility. See New Task Force page 4
Lookout Gets a Lift Boy Scouts from Troop 444 and their parents scrape and paint the fence at Olmstead Lookout on Saturday, Aug. 2. The fence was originally built through two Eagle Scout projects in 1996 and 1997. The lookout, owned by the Guilford Land Conservation Trust and overlooking the West River, reopened this past spring after closing in 2024 for a seawall restoration project.
Photo by Wesley Bunnell/ The Courier
Eric Santagata comes home with Sweeney Todd at Legacy...........2
District Champs The Guilford Little League 12U All-Star baseball team recently won the district title for the first time since 2020...................................11
A Sole Mission For Madison’s Kendall Flynn, shoe design is about more than fashion........................................20
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