BECKET -- Two towns and a tree-removal company are headed to trial in a legal battle over cleanup costs from a December 2008 ice storm.

Becket and Blandford have filed counterclaim suits in Superior Court against BRD LLC, the tree-removal company that sued them individually in 2012, alleging they weren't paid or paid in full for clearing up tree debris created by the storm.

The trial between Becket and BRD is scheduled for March 2, 2015, according to records from Hampden Superior Court in which the case will be heard. No trial date has yet been set for Blandford's case, which will be heard by the same jury after a judge approved the consolidation of the cases in February.

Last August, BRD LLC of Suffield, Conn., sued Becket, claiming the town had only paid $263,700 of its $875,218 bill for clearing and removing debris like limbs and trees. BRD also sued Blandford for not paying its cleanup bill.

Both towns hired BRD to perform debris removal in the spring of 2009. The costs were to be reimbursed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, but only for work directly related to the storm cleanup and documented to FEMA specifications.

In its suit, BRD claims the company performed the work, but was not paid or paid in full.

In lawsuits of their own, the towns claim that BRD not only didn't perform and document the work to the specifications required, but also instructed the towns not to pay the bills because the company hadn't properly documented its work.

The towns allege BRD worked beyond the parameters of its work order (such as cutting down healthy trees and ones on private property), didn't properly document the work it did, and sold town-owned trees to Moosehead Harvesting Inc., which is owned by the wife of BRD principal Robert Reed and the mother of the company's other principal, Robert Reed Jr., for profit.

The towns also allege its trees have either been sold or could be personally used by one or more of BRD's employees.

Despite BRD's objections, Judge Richard Carey in February 2013, citing "virtually identical facts and involve similar legal claims" approved a request to consolidate the cases being overseen by Kopelman & Paige, which is representing both towns.

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by Sue Dremann / Palo Alto Weekly

The removal of 543 trees from the Palo Alto Municipal Golf Course could offer an opportunity to restore a portion of the Palo Alto Baylands to its natural state, the city's Parks and Recreation commissioners learned Tuesday evening.

A renovation and flood-control project would remove the equivalent of 6 acres of tree canopy from the course as part of the Golf Course Reconfiguration and Baylands Athletic Center Expansion Project. About 300 of them would be replaced.

The replacement trees would be smaller, native Bay Area species with less canopy, and it could take decades for the canopy to catch up to the level of environmental benefits offered by the trees standing today, according to a proposal report.

City staff presented the commission with three proposals for how to mitigate the tree removal, from replacing the trees in locations spread throughout the city to situating them all in city open space. The third proposal, a hybrid plan, would restore a portion of the Baylands to native wetland in addition to replacing hundreds of trees, Urban Forester Walter Passmore said.

Trees were not part of the native landscape to begin with, he noted.

The plan would net the city more than 800 trees to replace the 543 removed. In addition to planting trees at the golf course, some 500 saplings and seedlings at Pearson-Arastradero Preserve would be identified for focused preservation efforts, Passmore said.

Parks and Recreation commissioners were intrigued by the hybrid plan. It presents an opportunity to improve the wetlands while replacing the city's canopy, they said.

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Stevens Tree Service of Pinellas County owner Bob Dixon and his crew worked all day Nov. 27 grinding stumps and removing hazardous branches at Pinellas Hope, a "tent city" for the homeless located near Largo.

The company provided the service free of charge after Pinellas Hope won a hazardous tree removal contest sponsored by the company.

This is the fourth year Stevens Tree Service has provided free tree removal during Thanksgiving, and the first year a contest was held for the company's pro-bono holiday work.

According to Dixon, the shelter was selected as the winner of the contest because it had the greatest need.

"They had many dead, overhanging branches that were looming over tents that could fall and hurt someone," he explained. "They also had a lot of tree stumps along the walkways that were tripping hazards, especially at night because it is not lit."

Stevens Tree Service, 1334 Spalding Road in Dunedin, has been in Pinellas County more than 40 years and currently serves 2,500 customers in the Tampa Bay area, specializing in all aspects of tree care.

Visit stevenstreeservice.com.

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Built on the former site of Romano's Macaroni Grill at 28795 U.S. 19 N, the new 7,928-square-foot restaurant seats about 320 guests.

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