BANGOR DAILY NEWS • March 17, 2021
The town landfill has long been a thorny issue for the Somerset County town of Hartland. Next month, residents will help decide the decades-old landfill’s fate in a referendum. Hartland town officials say the best way to fund the landfill’s eventual closure is to expand it in the interim. While they say residents are on their side, a vocal opposition has formed to lobby for a “no” vote. They claim that the landfill is hurting the town’s environment and believe closing it, though costly, is the right course of action.