Garbage pick-up delayed

All trash routes in the Town of Newstead and Village of Akron are delayed this week. Friday routes are pushed to Saturday. Joseph M. Hickman Strategic/Municipal Sales Manager said, “With the current spike around our community and country of COVID-19 cases, we may experience service delays in your area. The safety of our employees and our customers is our highest priority, and we are working to ensure you are serviced as close to the expected service date as possible. Friday routes may push to Saturday, please leave garbage out if it is not collected on Friday. “

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Confirmed COVID cases continue to climb in 14001

Erie County data on Wednesday, December 8 shows the number of confirmed new COVID-19 cases in the 14001 zip code continues to climb.  There was an increase of 64 cases over the past week, the highest in a one-week period since March of 2020.  There were 40 new cases the previous week, following a week with 35 new cases.  The community total is now and a community total of 1160 since March of 2020.

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