{"id":80058,"date":"2026-01-07T08:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/80058\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T08:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:50:09","slug":"parkersburg-city-council-approves-first-reading-of-trash-contract-tables-recycling-news-sports-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/80058\/","title":{"rendered":"Parkersburg City Council approves first reading of trash contract, tables recycling | News, Sports, Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1023\" height=\"840\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/N2201P08002C-1023x840.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p id=\"caption\">(Graphic Illustration &#8211; MetroCreativeConnection &#8211; Public Meeting- Council Meeting)<\/p>\n<p>PARKERSBURG \u2013 Members of Parkersburg City Council approved the first reading of a contract with a company to pick up trash but voted to table an ordinance regarding a separate recycling service.<\/p>\n<p>Following a public meeting that saw 21 people speak on the subject of city sanitation, council convened for a special meeting and passed the first reading of a five-year contract with Waste Management to provide residential trash pickup services on a 6-3 vote.<\/p>\n<p>Before a proposed contract with Rumpke for a subscription-based curbside recycling program could be discussed, council voted unanimously to table the item until its Feb. 10 meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story Wednesday at newsandsentinel.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Graphic Illustration &#8211; MetroCreativeConnection &#8211; Public Meeting- Council Meeting) PARKERSBURG \u2013 Members of Parkersburg City Council approved the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[60,40625,128,130,129,40622,40620,40621],"class_list":{"0":"post-80058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-parkersburg-city-council-approves-first-reading-of-trash-contract","10":"tag-reading-city","11":"tag-reading-city-headlines","12":"tag-reading-city-news","13":"tag-tables-recycling","14":"tag-tables-recyclinglocal-news","15":"tag-tables-recyclingnews"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}