Clean-up Days

Spring 2025:

Our planned Saturday date was rained out, but we were back at the Rimkus Clubhouse at Riverside Park on a windy Spring Sunday.

Many of the troops and packs of Hudson Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts were out cleaning up litter around our school properties and at Centennial Beach. Wheeler Road and Lower Main Street are particularly littered, and sadly every group that went out found plenty of litter – including tires, broken furniture and a toilet.

Many of the clean-up crews separated the “nip” bottles so that we could show how pervasive these things are in our environment. Here’s a great idea from Connecticut sponsored by the companies that bottle and retail “nips” that dedicates funds toward recycling and litter clean-up.

Thanks to all of the volunteers who spent time helping to keep Hudson Beautiful, to the DPW and BP Trucking for arranging for the dumpster and sorting all of the trash that was collected, and to the Business Improvement District and the Chamber of Commerce for advertising the event.

Some of the Leaders and Scouts from the Troops that cleaned many of the school grounds in Town.

There are thousands of these nip bottles all over Town. Connecticut has a great way to help Towns with this nuisance.

SPRING 2024:

This year we began using a sign-up form so that multiple teams of volunteers didn’t clean up the same streets or parks. We were back at the Rimkus Clubhouse at Riverside Park on a nice Spring Saturday. We partnered with The Rail Trail Flatbread Company and New City Microcreamery who had a pizza party and gave out ice cream certificates to clean-up volunteers. Thanks to a great crew from Allegro MicroSystems in Marlborough who cleaned up Wood Park and Apsley Park.

Reed Road, Lower Main Street and White Pond Road continue to be “hot spots” of litter, and the number of “nip” bottles that we clean up seems to increase every year.

SPRING 2023:

This year we set up in front of the Police/DPW Building on Municipal Drive.

Fall 2022:

Spring 2022: