HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS: The sale of the city’s incinerator received one of its final authorizations Friday.
“It is ironic that it’s Friday the 13th and … the eve of Yom Kippur, a day of atonement, and we are atoning for … our brethren that preceded us,” said Bill Cluck, chairman of facility owner The Harrisburg Authority’s board.
Cluck referred to the well-publicized $362.5 million in debt rooted in a failed retrofit of the trash-burning power plant. After he spoke, he and fellow board members J. Marc Kurowski and Westburn Majors voted unanimously to approve the facility’s sale to the Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority… (more)
EDITOR: A huge price for the Harrisburg Authority. Time will tell whether the Lancaster Authority will end up ‘holding the bag’, figuratively as well as literally.
