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Monday, November 26, 2012

When Do Dearborn Public Service Days, Leaf Removal and Yard Waste Pickup End?

Important dates to know this winter in Dearborn.

Move your cars, rake your leaves, put out your yard waste. But when does it all stop for 2012? Here are the important dates you need to know, Dearborn residents: Public Service Days: End Friday, Nov. 30, and resume again on April 1, 2013. Until then, residents will not be required to remove their parked vehicles from the streets on their trash collection day. However, according to Jim Murray, the director of the Department of Public Works, it is still a good idea to keep vehicles off the streets to allow for more efficient trash pickup. Loose Leaf Pickup: Ends Friday, Dec. 7, so be sure to rake your last fallen leaves to the curb before then. Another good reason to still keep your car out of the street on your trash pickup day. Yard Waste …

Peggy Weggy

8:49 pm on Monday, November 26, 2012

Dear city of Dearborn what are you thinking? ... not having people remove their cars on Trash pick up day?... during the winter season it's a two for one for snow AND garbage removal?   more ›

Monday, October 22, 2012

2012 Dearborn Leaf Pickup Starts Monday

Leaves will be picked up from the street two or three times through Dec. 7.

Grab your rakes, Dearborn! Dearborn's annual collection of loose leaves raked into the streets is scheduled to begin the week of Oct. 22 and end on Friday, Dec. 7, depending on the weather. To make it easier for crews to pick up the leaves and to keep streets safer, residents are encouraged to rake leaves into the street only on the day before their neighborhood’s Public Service Days. Leaves raked into the street will be picked up on a neighborhood’s trash day, on the week that is not a recycling week. Public Service Days are the same as trash collection days. Vehicles must be removed from streets on these days between 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Contractors paid by residents to rake leaves must follow the same guidelines and should not rake leaves into…

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Lisa Ruggerole

12:16 am on Tuesday, November 20, 2012

I don't have any trees. My curbside is loaded. I think Howard school has been scraping them to my side of the street. No service has picked up loose leaves this year, I don't know where they are doing 2 to 3 times. I have seen them maybe once a year since 2006. Hope they come this year; the leaves are composting and turning to mud.   more ›

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