Green Up Day in Duxbury 2023

May 16, 2023  |  By Audrey Quackenbush

The more you look, the more you find. Greening Up in Duxbury. Photo by Gordon Miller

Keith and DeAnna Romstead find trash in the grass along Rt. 100 at the Welcome to Duxbury sign. Photo by Gordon Miller

Doreen and Martin LeBelle with Emily Barrett scour the bushes for trash as they Green Up along Duxbury's Main Street. Photo by Gordon Miller

Dressed for mud, sun and safety, Martin LeBell Greens Up on Main Street in Duxbury. Photo by Gordon Miller

Photo by Gordon Miller

Doreen and Martin LeBelle fill a bag together in Duxbury. Photo by Gordon Miller

Approximately 80 volunteers worked to spruce up Duxbury roads on Green Up Day, Saturday, May 6. The Duxbury Land Trust, which has been organizing the event for the past 26 years, is very pleased with the result. 

According to the folks at Casella, Duxbury volunteers collected 1.24 tons of trash. Tires turned in for recycling weighed in at 2.43 tons.

Particularly helpful were the efforts of Jill Smith of Crossett Hill, who recruited many volunteers covering the entire area. Volunteers from the Waterbury Congregational Church, led by Pastor Peter Plagge, joined the effort and some new residents participated adding enthusiasm and energy. 

Volunteers covered all main town roads totaling more than 20 miles. River Road was especially 

challenging, with not only the typical bottles and cans, but abandoned furniture, tires, and 

other miscellaneous debris. An illegal dump was removed taking two pickup truck loads. 

Many thanks to all our volunteers and town officials: Duxbury Select Board members, Town Clerk and Treasurer Maureen Harvey, Assistant Town Clerk Bonnie Morse, Highway 

Department Foreman Brian Gibbs and his crew, and Mike Marotto, Duxbury’s representative to the Central Vermont Solid Waste District. 

Green Up would not happen without the commitment and support of these individuals.

Audrey Quackenbush is Duxbury’s volunteer Green Up coordinator; audreyq@myfairpoint.net.