Hands on deck

In early May, the Hanna Landfill let go of two of its employees.

"We had to let them go," Sharon Biamon Medicine Bow mayor and High Country Joint Powers Board (HCJP) member explained. "There were aspects of the job that were not getting fulfilled."

This put the Hanna dump in a tough position.

Besides having to let the two workers go, the dump could not continue to take trash any longer at the landfill and had to put out roll-offs for residents.

Opening the gates for people to deposit their household trash required someone to man the dump to make sure people were using the dumpsters and not try...