To the editors:
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We read your Neighborhood News story about Nancy Sreenan and the bureaucratic “runaround” she contended with, trying to recycle one Christmas tree [February 10]. In Woodstock, the story would have run quite differently. On December 20, 1988, one City Council member moved that the city recycle the Christmas trees it collects curbside, and declare the annual “Burning of the Green” something of the past. Motion carried, and shortly after the holidays the trees were collected and deposited at a site near where the city conducts its leaf and grass clipping composting programs. Since the grant it had been promised for a brush chipper would not be available until April, the city invited companies to come and demonstrate their chippers–and converted all the trees to a mulch which eager gardeners are hauling away. This is how responsive and responsible government should work.
Jane and John Collins
