This boy and his garbage man built a friendship on smiles and waves, but like all good things, it had to come to an end.

Watch a 9-year-old boy say goodbye to his local trash collector after greeting him every week on his driveway for years.

A mountain of recyclables and a massive pile of garbage at the Keene Recycling Center and Transfer Station tell a story, according to Duncan Watson, the assistant public works director in Keene.

Although Waste Management is a trash hauling behemoth today, it had humble beginnings. Harm Huizenga began picking up garbage in Chicago in 1893 for $1.25 per wagonload. Some 75 years later ...

But sadly, nothing lasts forever, and when a new waste management company took over the garbage man’s route, it meant his latest visit with Noah would be his last. “When we told him it was the ...