Hadley Spring Clean Day set for Saturday

Hadley will hold its annual clean up day on Saturday, a week after a similar day in Amherst occurred.

Hadley will hold its annual clean up day on Saturday, a week after a similar day in Amherst occurred. GAZETTE FILE PHOTO

Staff report

Published: 04-09-2025 1:18 PM

HADLEY — Volunteers will be removing trash and debris from along town roads and other public spaces during the fifth annual Hadley Spring Clean Up Day Saturday, coordinated by the Hadley Climate Change Committee.

Those helping out will meet up to begin the work at 8:30 a.m. at the Hopkins Academy parking lot on Route 9.

The clean up supplements the ongoing work by Hopkins seventh graders in Susan Duncan’s class who have made a series of roadside signs, which the Department of Public Works has installed, that reminds residents and those visiting town to “Keep Hadley Clean” and “Stop Dumping Trash in our Town.”

Anyone who has signed up to collect trash will be able to bring it to the Hadley Transfer Station on Cemetery Road, in coordination with Solid Waste Solutions.

To sign up, go to: https://forms.gle/duGm9y6jwR3DJFec8.

This follows Amherst’s similar clean up on Sunday, when 200 volunteers, including students from the University of Massachusetts and Amherst College, local scouting troops and others picked up 200 bags of trash, with the DPW and USA Waste & Recycling removing those bags.

Among items found during the clean up was a couch dumped near Kiwanis Field on Stanley Street, 200 golf balls in an area of the former Hickory Ridge Golf Course and a suitcase filled with rusted canned goods left at Mill River Recreation Area.

— Scott Merzbach

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