BUENOS AIRES -- A packed commuter train entering a station at morning rush hour Wednesday suddenly smashed into a retaining wall, crumpling cars and leaving at least 49 dead, 550 injured and dozens trapped in the twisted wreckage.

Survivors described a full train – there reportedly were as many as 800 aboard – and a tremendous impact, with passengers thrown on top of each other and hurled to the floor.

"Unfortunately, we must report that there are 49 dead in the accident," including a child, police spokesman Nestor Rodriguez told a news conference, according to AFP.

Civil defense officials said at least 550 people were injured in the crash.

AFP said witnesses reported it appeared the train's brakes failed as it pulled into the "Once" station on the western outskirts of Buenos Aires.

Transportation Secretary Juan Pablo Schiavi said the train entered the station at a speed of 12 miles (20 km) per hour and failed to stop, crashing into a retaining wall at the end of the track.

"It was a very serious accident," he said at a news conference. "Cars piled up on top of each other and one of them went six meters (yards) inside another car."

"People suffered contusions, but there are much more complex cases involving traumas of the thorax. There are people trapped alive in the cars."

At least 30 people were trapped in the twisted wreckage of the first and second cars of the train, Alberto Crescenti, the head of the city's emergency services office, said, according to AFP.

Firefighters and rescue workers had to break through skylights in the train's roofs to get inside.

"I felt the explosion of the crash. It was very loud. The train did not brake, I saw people hurt in their necks, arms, legs," AFP quoted passenger Pedro Fuentes as saying.

Another passenger, who identified herself as Myriam, said she was with her two children, ages six and four.

"In a blink of an eye we were on the floor. I don't know how we got out. The door crashed in on me, and I covered the girl."

The train's driver was carried away on a stretcher.

Wednesday's wreck came just months after eight people were killed when their school bus collided with a train in central Argentina.

Another collision between a train and a bus in Buenos Aires last September killed 11 people and wounded another 212.

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Rescue workers extract a passenger from a commuter train that crashed into the Once train station at rush hour in Buenos Aires Wednesday.

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Residents of Grand Haven’s Poplar Ridge area near Highland Park will soon be seeing improvements to aging retaining walls.

City Council on Monday unanimously approved a $60,956 contract with Katerberg-VerHage Inc. to perform the work.

The city will cover one-third of the cost and residents residing near the walls paying the remaining two-thirds, pending the approval of a special assessment district.

Councilman Mike Fritz said he was excited to see the city finally giving the go-ahead for the retaining wall project.

“It’s been over eight years that we’ve been discussing this,” he said.

According to Grand Haven Project Manager Julie Beaton, the people in charge of the project came highly recommended by other communities and people who utilized their services.

“I had extremely positive responses for them,” she said, adding that she spoke with the contractor at length about the project and what it would entail.

“Probably the most significant thing is they’re going to attack it differently than we had proposed,” Beaton said.

She said the city had proposed driving in sheet pile to support the wall, then repair it before removing the sheet pile wall when they were done.

A special public hearing is planned for March 5 at 7:30 p.m. to discuss the special assessment district created by the city to help pay for the new walls.

To read more of this story, see today’s print or e-edition of the Grand Haven Tribune.

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A packed commuter train slammed into a retaining wall at a railway terminus in Buenos Aires during rush hour Wednesday, leaving at least 49 dead, 550 injured, and dozens trapped in the wreckage.

"The train was full and the impact was tremendous," a passenger identified only as Ezequiel told local television, adding that medics at the scene appeared overwhelmed by the scale of the disaster.

Witnesses said passengers were hurled on top of each other and knocked to the floor "in the blink of an eye," some losing consciousness and others seriously injured.

"Unfortunately, we must report that there are 49 dead in the accident," including a child, police spokesman Nestor Rodriguez told a news conference.

Civil defense officials said at least 550 people were injured in the crash, which witnesses said occurred after the train's brakes failed as it was arriving at a station on the western outskirts of Buenos Aires.

The toll surpassed the city's last major rail disaster just five months ago when two trains and bus collided during rush hour, killing 11 people and injuring more than 200.

A dozen ambulances were dispatched to the scene, and officials said many passengers had suffered multiple fractures and abrasions.

At least 30 people were trapped in the twisted wreckage of the first and second cars of the train, Alberto Crescenti, the head of the city's emergency services office, said.

Transportation Secretary Juan Pablo Schiavi said the train entered the station at a speed of 20 kilometers (12 miles) an hour, and failed to stop, crashing into a retaining wall at the end of the track.

"It was a very serious accident," he said at a news conference. "Cars piled up on top of each other and one them went six meters (yards) inside another car."

"People suffered contusions, but there are much more complex cases involving traumas of the thorax. There are people trapped alive in the cars."

Firefighters and rescue workers had to break through skylights in the train's roofs to open a path to those trapped inside.

"I felt the explosion of the crash. It was very loud. The train did not brake, I saw people hurt in their necks, arms, legs," said Pedro Fuentes, a passenger.

Another passenger, who identified herself as Myriam, said she was with her two children, ages six and four.

"In a blink of an eye we were on the floor. I don't know how we got out. The door crashed in one me, and I covered the girl."

The train's driver was injured but rescue workers pried him loose from the wreckage of his cabin. Local television showed images of him and several people being carried away on stretchers.

An investigation into the crash has been opened, but an employee with the rail line's maintenance department, Monica Slotauer, said "the brakes failed and this is the result of a lack of investment."

The Sarmiento rail line, which links the center of Buenos Aires to a densely populated suburb 70 kilometers (44 miles) to the west of the city, uses rolling stock acquired in the 1960s.

The accident occurred just five months after the Argentine capital was shocked by another rush hour transit disaster, that one involving a collision between two trains and a bus.

That accident in September killed 11 people including the bus driver and injured more 200.

The region's transit system has been plagued with serious accidents in recent years.

In March 2008, 18 people were killed and 47 injured when a bus was hit by a train in Dolores, 212 kilometers (132 miles) south of Buenos Aires.

Argentina's deadliest train tragedy was in 1970, an accident that killed 200 people in northern Buenos Aires.

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by STEVE STOLER

WFAA

Posted on February 20, 2012 at 10:16 PM

Updated Monday, Feb 20 at 10:43 PM

CARROLLTON — Three Carrollton families who spent the last two years fearing their homes would end up in a creek say they've now run out of options.

So they're going to court, attempting to force the city to repair a sinking retaining wall that's devastating their backyards and threatening their homes.

Every time it rains, their backyards sink a little lower.

"It's just getting worse," said Laura Brewer, one of the homeowners.

They've watched their backyards on Barclay Drive slip away for the last two years. Now they're running out of time and patience.

"We tried everything else we could think of," Brewer said.

Brewer and her husband joined two other families and filed a lawsuit against the city. They're claiming Carrollton set a precedent when they made repairs to the same wall down the street and picked up the tab.

"[The city's] lawyer says it would be against the law for them to help us, because it's private property," Brewer said. "But we believe they are responsible, because they fixed the same wall in 1996."

The lawsuit also accuses the city of negligence during 2005 construction to replace a sewer line on Dudley Branch Creek.

The homeowners claim when crews moved dirt, they covered small drainage holes in the wall. They believe over time, the soil became even more saturated, placing additional stress on the wall and causing it to fail.

"I'm very scared our house is going to slide down," said Petra Chudejova. "And I'm afraid my children will get hurt."

Carrollton's engineering manager has maintained all along that the wall is on private property, and it is therefore the homeowners' responsibility to make repairs.

On Monday, city leaders would not discuss the pending lawsuit.

The homeowners say the repairs could cost up to $75,000 at each of their homes.

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By DON DARE
6 On Your Side Reporter

GATLINBURG (WATE) - A Gatlinburg chalet owner received a big surprise recently. The decks on his unit were torn down by mistake.

Bill Smith couldn't believe his eyes. The decks to his chalet were taken down when he was away for about three hours on Monday, February 13.

"They took all that off, tore it down and threw it off the bank. They tore this floor, the handrails and the steps and had it thrown everywhere," he said.

Bill has owned the three-story chalet, called Bill's Hideaway in the heart of Gatlinburg, for 10 years. There are three suites in the building that looks over the city. It's been a money maker when vacationers could sit outside on the porch.

"The deck is part of the atmosphere here. Sit on the deck, listen to the music in the city. But with the deck gone, it's tough to rent," Bill said.

He showed 6 On Your Side pictures of how the place looked when he returned from shopping. "They just threw the debris on the bank, left all the nails exposed which was a safety hazard," he said.

At first, Bill had no idea who had torn the deck down. But a neighbor had some information.

"Finally, I got the contractor here." They said, "The GPS sent us here." However, his chalet is clearly marked as number 151. The crew was supposed to go to 145.

The chalet at number 145 is next door to the building Bill owns. He wonders how anyone could have missed the mailbox with the address on it right in front of his unit. He filed a police report in Gatlinburg.

"at this point, I'm losing business and I'm out my deck, two decks as a matter of fact," Bill said.

Robinson Remodeling of Sevierville is the contractor that made the costly mistake.

Chad Robinson was working in Kentucky when he spoke with 6 On Your Side. "We were supposed to go to the house next door. We accidentally tore it off the wrong house," he said.

"His place is 151," I said. "How could you have missed his house?" Robinson told us the same thing he told Bill. "Because the GPS brought us to it."

Bill said at first, Robinson told him he wanted to use some of the old lumber to rebuild the deck. However, Bill objected and Robinson revised that plan.

"We're going to build him a brand new deck," Robinson said. "We agreed to that."

Bill has received the signed agreement. He says Robinson Remodeling agreed to rebuild the decks to code at their cost. The job will begin a week from now and it should take three days to complete.

If you have a consumer issue, call the 6 On Your Side Hotline at 865-633-5974 or email ddare@wate.com.

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By DON DARE
6 On Your Side Reporter

GATLINBURG (WATE) - A Gatlinburg chalet owner received a big surprise recently. The decks on his unit were torn down by mistake.

Bill Smith couldn't believe his eyes. The decks to his chalet were taken down when he was away for about three hours on Monday, February 13.

"They took all that off, tore it down and threw it off the bank. They tore this floor, the handrails and the steps and had it thrown everywhere," he said.

Bill has owned the three-story chalet, called Bill's Hideaway in the heart of Gatlinburg, for 10 years. There are three suites in the building that looks over the city. It's been a money maker when vacationers could sit outside on the porch.

"The deck is part of the atmosphere here. Sit on the deck, listen to the music in the city. But with the deck gone, it's tough to rent," Bill said.

He showed 6 On Your Side pictures of how the place looked when he returned from shopping. "They just threw the debris on the bank, left all the nails exposed which was a safety hazard," he said.

At first, Bill had no idea who had torn the deck down. But a neighbor had some information.

"Finally, I got the contractor here." They said, "The GPS sent us here." However, his chalet is clearly marked as number 151. The crew was supposed to go to 145.

The chalet at number 145 is next door to the building Bill owns. He wonders how anyone could have missed the mailbox with the address on it right in front of his unit. He filed a police report in Gatlinburg.

"at this point, I'm losing business and I'm out my deck, two decks as a matter of fact," Bill said.

Robinson Remodeling of Sevierville is the contractor that made the costly mistake.

Chad Robinson was working in Kentucky when he spoke with 6 On Your Side. "We were supposed to go to the house next door. We accidentally tore it off the wrong house," he said.

"His place is 151," I said. "How could you have missed his house?" Robinson told us the same thing he told Bill. "Because the GPS brought us to it."

Bill said at first, Robinson told him he wanted to use some of the old lumber to rebuild the deck. However, Bill objected and Robinson revised that plan.

"We're going to build him a brand new deck," Robinson said. "We agreed to that."

Bill has received the signed agreement. He says Robinson Remodeling agreed to rebuild the decks to code at their cost. The job will begin a week from now and it should take three days to complete.

If you have a consumer issue, call the 6 On Your Side Hotline at 865-633-5974 or email ddare@wate.com.

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TOPEKA — The Kansas House has voted down a Democratic property tax reduction plan that they say would have saved Sedgwick County taxpayers about $7.4 million a year.

On a 41-76 vote, representatives on Tuesday rejected the proposal to restore state payments to local governments for property tax relief. The $7.4 million for Sedgwick County would have been part of $45?million in relief statewide.

A competing Republican plan has yet to be voted on on the House floor.

Democrats tried to tack their proposal into a routine bill allowing county treasurers to accept partial payments of delinquent property taxes.

The money would have been transferred from the state to local government coffers, to be used for the sole purpose of providing property tax relief, said Rep. Jim Ward, D-Wichita.

Ward said Kansas did that from 1938 until 2004, when, facing a budget shortfall, the state cut back on relief funds for local communities.

“We got about 10 Republican votes and all the Democrats,” Ward said.

Rep. Nile Dillmore, D-Wichita, said state cuts in recent years have increased pressure on counties and cities to increase property taxes.

He said he thinks if you asked Kansans what they want to do, “overwhelmingly they’d say our property tax is too high.”

Gov. Sam Brownback and Republican leaders are favoring reductions in state income tax rates instead. The House taxation committee on Monday passed a modified version of the income-tax buydown that Brownback introduced in his State of the State speech early this year.

Both the Democratic and Republican plans would have tapped into increasing state revenue to fund tax relief.

The plan that emerged from the taxation committee Monday follows Brownback’s general emphasis on using rising state revenue to buy down the property tax rate. But it wouldn’t lower rates as much as the governor proposed and would leave in place federal deductions that Brownback wants to do away with on state income taxes.

It also would delay elimination of income taxes on some types of business organizations, including sole proprietorships, farms, limited liability companies and Subchapter S corporations. The committee proposes a five-year phaseout of the tax on those businesses; Brownback wants to get rid of it immediately.

The committee plan also would wipe away all “refundable” tax credits, including the earned income tax credit, which rebates taxes to low-income single parents. Brownback favors doing away with that tax credit and shifting the money to social programs directed at the poor.

Contributing: Brent D. Wistrom of The Eagle

Reach Dion Lefler at 316-268-6527 or dlefler@wichitaeagle.com.

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Mold in Dontrael Starks and Tiffany Jones’ home (credit: CBS)

DENVER (CBS4) – A northeast Denver family is fighting for a healthy home. They had a mold clean-up job done in December, but say the mold still exists.

The family contacted 4 On Your Side Consumer Investigator Jodi Brooks for help. She organized different mold tests. CBS4?s test results confirm high levels of mold still in the home.

A bathroom tested high, and so did the master bedroom. CBS4?s test results now have the attention of the people in charge of the remediation project.

“It’s just crazy. It needs to end,” homeowner Dontrael Starks said.

“There’s still mold. There’s still a bunch of mold in here,” homeowner Tiffany Jones said.

Jones and Starks have three children — twins Aadyan and Honor, who turn 3 years old in March; and little Zaryia, who will turn 2 years old also in March. Jones and all of the children suffer from asthma, and Aadyan also has autism. So for the family, a healthy home is paramount.

“I couldn’t image someone else’s family going through this and being this patient for all this time,” Starks said.

For more than 80 days now the family has been living in temporary housing, refusing to move back into their home.

“We just wanted the job done right, and i feel that they just didn’t do that at all,” Jones said.

Jones and Starks volunteered for a research study conducted by National Jewish Health. The consent form provided to the family calls it a “Healthy Homes: Healthy Kids” study. Offering “no guarantees or promises,” but with the purpose of “improving your home environment” to “improve you or your family’s health.”

Northeast Denver Housing Center is a partner in the project along with Denver Urban Renewal Authority.

“It upsets me because I just feel like nobody cares. I just feel like they don’t care; like honestly do not care about our family,” Starks said.

Because after the work was done, and their case was officially closed, Jones and Starks strongly believed mold still existed.

“Even on your finger you have enough moisture to have it read in this case 24.7 percent moisture content,” Bob Woellner with Quest Environmental said.

Removing the moisture and its source is key in mold remediation,” according to Woellner.

“Anything less than 12 percent is considered to be dry,” Woellner said.

So with the moisture meter Woellner checked the bathroom and behind the laundry room.

“Pull up a tile, there’s a loose tile here. The wood and the grout underneath it is 40 plus moisture content. “I would not want to move back until all the work was completed, which means making sure the sources of moisture are eliminated.”

But the only way to confirm mold remains in the home is to test it. Weecycle Environmental Consulting based in Boulder did the initial mold tests back in July of 2011. CBS4 hired them again.

“I’d say we still have an issue,” Weecycle Environmental Consulting President
Judy Sawitsky said. “At this point I would say this is not a particularly healthy house to live in.”

One-hundred-twelve northeast Denver families have been enrolled in the National Jewish Health study. Sixty of those homes required remediation work and 40 of those 60 involved mold.

According to Dr. Mike Van Dyke of National Jewish the Jones and Starks home is the only home that continues to have issues.

“Every indication we had by multiple individual reports was that this job was fixed,” Van Dyke said.

But then Van Dyke reviewed the latest mold test results. He said the cause of the mold in the home was from a leaky water heater, a leak under the kitchen sink, and a leak behind the shower surround in the bathroom.

It’s clear the work is not complete.

“Oh we’re definitely committed to seeing what needs to be done and try to see where that mold is coming from,” Van Dyke said.

It’s a step closer.

“We can’t live like that,” Jones said.

National Jewish has been in contact with the family and plans to inspect the home this week. Anything they identify as a quality issue related to the work that had been performed will be corrected.

National Jewish says it will do its best to figure out the mold issue, but it cannot promise it will pay for all the problems.

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ACCEPTING THE CHALLENGE: According to UNICEF, 2.6 billion people, almost entirely in the developing world, use bucket, public or open (uncovered) latrines, if they use latrines at all. Image: Courtesy of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Chances are that if you are reading this, you have a private flush toilet a few steps from your bed. Your commode is more reliable than your mobile connection, and likely will outlast all of your home appliances. Yet huge tracts of the developing world have yet to see so much as a latrine, a situation that facilitates the spread of debilitating or even deadly diarrheal diseases.

Advocates for universal access to and use of basic personal sanitation hope their efforts will get a big boost in August, when the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation present several hygienic innovations developed through its Reinventing the Toilet Challenge. Technology alone might help with failing sewers in industrialized countries, but for poor nations, where changing social norms is more important, the Gates Foundation is a powerful ally. The foundation's involvement could do for sanitation what it has accomplished in the battle to eradicate malaria—raise the visibility of a fundamental health care crisis and encourage new efforts to end it.

Toilet tech
According to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), 2.6 billion people, almost entirely in the developing world, use bucket, public or open (uncovered) latrines—if they use latrines at all. Of that total, 1.1 billion people defecate in the open—a social norm in some societies, but one that results in typhoid, cholera, dysentery and other diseases.

One of the foundation's efforts in this fight was to spread $3 million in grants last summer among engineering teams at eight research institutions in North America, Asia, Africa and Europe, including the California Institute of Technology, South Africa's University of KwaZulu–Natal and National University of Singapore. The foundation approached about 20 institutions, eight of which took up the challenge. These teams were charged with developing concepts that: do not use piped-in water; are not connected to a sewer system; do not use outside electricity; and will not cost more than 5 cents per visitor per day to operate, including initial investment and ongoing maintenance.

Several prototypes have been proposed: A team at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands proposes using microwaves to turn human waste into carbon monoxide and hydrogen, which would be stored in solid-oxide fuel stacks to generate electricity. Teams at Loughborough University in England and Stanford University are working separately on methods that involve turning waste into charcoal, or biochar.

At the University of Toronto, researchers are building a system that sanitizes feces (dehydrated after running it between two rollers) by smoldering it. The system decontaminates urine via membrane filtration and ultraviolet radiation. Meanwhile, Caltech researchers have proposed a solar-powered toilet that generates hydrogen for fuel cells from the waste.

Frank Rijsberman, director of the Gates Foundation's Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Initiative, says he is hoping for something that goes beyond the minimum criteria to become the "iPad of sanitation." He says, "There must be an aspirational element" to toilets or even latrines if they are going to become the norm. People have to want to be seen owning one.

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This last point is more important than one might think. After all, what arguments for toilets could be more persuasive than hygiene and health? The numbers alone would seem capable of convincing any adult mind that open defecation is disastrous. For instance, the World Health Organization says 1.5 million children alone suffer miserable deaths each year from diarrhea, a common outcome of poor sanitation. It turns out, however, that getting people to climb the first rung of what is called the sanitation ladder to improved waste-disposal practices is a complex social endeavor.

For example, although some people, particularly women and girls who risk being assaulted while crouching alone at night in the open, might opt for latrines and toilets where available, others say they prefer the experience of open defecation. To them, it is a natural practice going back generations.

Nonprofits and government agencies trying to end open defecation historically have parachuted into villages armed with health statistics, subsidies and latrines. Those involved in the battle say such campaigns are viewed locally as, at best, irrelevant and, at worst, as condescending noblesse oblige. Return visits revealed that if the facilities were used at all, they became grain stores, animal pens or even kitchens.

Even the Gates Foundation, Rijsberman says, is putting more money into toilet technology than behavioral efforts, but it recognizes the limits of technology in changing social norms. He says the foundation has also issued grants for "sanitation marketing programs" in Indonesia, India and Tanzania, for example.

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With October targeted as the start of construction for a new Westport Weston Family Y at the Camp Mahackeno property, Y leaders are seeking approval to connect the facility to the town's municipal sewer system.

The Y's proposal envisions extending a sewer line to the new center either under Lee's Pond or under Wilton Road. If approved by the town's Board of Selectmen, a Mahackeno sewer connection would supplant the Y's current plan to install an in-ground septic system. Both the town and the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection have approved a septic system at Mahackeno.

"We have the opportunity to do something that might be preferable to others, and it certainly is to us," Family Y Chief Executive Officer Rob Reeves said of the Y's sewer proposal. "But it doesn't mean that we don't think what we have approved will work. It will work."

Reeves and other Y leaders argue that connecting the new Y to the town's sewer system would have several advantages compared to setting up a septic system at the 32-acre Mahackeno site. A sewer connection would save more than 100 trees, which would have to be cut down to install the septic system at Mahackeno, Y leaders said in a Feb. 16 statement. Establishing a sewer connection for Mahackeno would also protect the Saugatuck River, as wastewater from the new facility would be transported to the town's sewage treatment facility, Y officials said. Building a sewer line to Mahackeno would also cost less than installing a septic system for the Y and would avoid town expenditures associated with monitoring a septic system, the Y's statement also said.

Installing a sewer line to Mahackeno would not affect the construction schedule of the new Y center, Reeves said.

If the town were to approve a sewer line extension under Lee's Pond, a part of the Saugatuck River, that route could enable nearby residences to connect to the municipal sewer system, Reeves said.

"There are people around there who would appreciate having sewers nearby," Reeves said. "We're not going to sewer the whole neighborhood by doing this, but we'd be going in an area that would benefit quite a few folks, and that's a win-win."

Y leaders also announced last week that they will pursue a "phased" building strategy for building the Mahackeno Y. While the Y gained approval from the Planning and Zoning Commission in 2008 for a 102,000-square-foot facility at Mahackeno, plans now call for a 55,000-square-foot main building to be built initially. The phased construction approach is modeled after the construction of other new YMCAs, such as the Soundview Family YMCA in Branford, Reeves said.

The Mahackeno Y is scheduled to open in late 2014, and construction of the first phase will cost about $36 million. In addition to $12 million raised from a capital campaign, the Y will finance phase one construction through the sale of its downtown building as well as borrowing, Reeves said.

Eventually, the Y plans to develop the Mahackeno facility to its fully planned 102,000-square-foot capacity, which could accommodate a membership of approximately 8,000, Reeves said. The Y's current center in downtown Westport has about 5,500 members.

"It is the typical way to do it, a phased project, as you raise enough money, as your building gets busy," Reeves said. "As we need to, we'll grow the project from there."

So far, the Y has raised about $6 million through its "Building What Matters" capital campaign and plans to reach its $12 million fundraising target when construction of the Mahackeno center begins in October, Reeves added.

The Y will hold a public information session about its Mahackeno sewer connection proposal on at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 22, at its downtown headquarters, 59 Post Road East.

The Board of Selectmen, acting in its capacity as the town's Water Pollution Control Authority, has not yet set a date for a public hearing to review the Y's proposal for the Mahackeno sewer line.

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