Tag: Keystone

DEP holds Keystone Sanitary Landfill accountable for odor concerns

Apr. 2—WILKES-BARRE — The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has entered a Consent Order and Agreement (COA) with Keystone Sanitary Landfill for odor violations — including creating malodors — at its facility in the boroughs of Dunmore and Throop between November 2022 and February 2024, and impacting residents in several surrounding communities. The $575,000 […]

Two men sentenced in 2021 fatal robbery on South Keystone Avenue

Two men were sentenced Thursday for their roles in a 2021 robbery at an Indianapolis gas station that left a third man dead. John Ziegler previously pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to 45 years in the Indiana Department of Correction. As part of his agreement, he also pleaded guilty to his role in two other […]

Four generations of satisfaction for Keystone Brand Meats

Mar. 2—LIMA — The torch has been passed from generation to generation to generation. The industry has evolved, as business enterprises are prone to do. But the keystone principals upon which an Allen County agri-business was founded 60 years ago remain firmly in place. Keystone Brand Meats, a meat-processing facility and retail/wholesale distributor of fresh […]

DEP issues Notice of Violation to Keystone Landfill for malodor

Jan. 8—WILKES-BARRE — The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection on Monday announced it has issued a Notice of Violation to Keystone Sanitary Landfill in Lackawanna County for failing to control odors from the leachate lagoons at its facility in Dunmore and Throop Boroughs. DEP’s investigation into residents’ complaints revealed that the odors rise to the […]

Central Keystone Council of Governments using ARPA funds to upgrade

Dec. 11—LEWISBURG — The Central Keystone Council of Governments is upgrading its equipment using COVID-19 relief funds from Union County. Central Keystone-COG, located at 1610 Industrial Blvd., Lewisburg, was awarded $24,000 from Union County in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds last year. Rodney D. Neitz, the director and building code official of the COG, […]