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Clarke Square and Layton Boulevard West residents looking to trash bulky items have their chance this week as Project Clean and Green moves into the area. The citywide program allows residents to discard, for free, any unwanted furniture, mattresses, household items, brush and up to five tires on their regular garbage pickup day. After Friday, April 22, the city will charge residents in the area a $50 fee for picking up items larger than a cubic yard (about the size of a recliner).

The Clean and Green Project is also providing a limited number of materials for group cleanups. For more information contact Keep Greater Milwaukee Beautiful (kgmb.org) at 272-5462.

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Raised in a South Side neighborhood where he still lives, Edgar Mendez is the managing editor of the Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service. Mendez is a proud graduate of UW-Milwaukee, where he double majored in journalism and sociology, and of Marquette University, where he earned a master’s degree in communication. He won a 2018 Regional Edward R. Murrow Award and 2014, 2017, and 2018 Milwaukee Press Club Awards for his reporting on taverns, marijuana law enforcement, and lead in water service lines. In 2008, he won a Society of Professional Journalists’ regional award for columns dealing with issues such as poverty, homelessness and racism. His writing has been published by the Associated Press, Reuters, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and other media. He has also co-authored three articles published in scholarly journals.