After receiving a request from Bud’s Sanitary Service to increase trash pickup rates, due to an increase in costs, Ewing and Clearwater village trustees took different routes on the requested $1.25 per customer hike.

Daryl Guthard, owner of the Newman Grove-based business, met Monday evening with each board during its respective monthly meeting.

Guthard told trustees in both villages, “Fuel is up. Tires are up 30%. I know we just signed this contract. I’ve been trying to hold it (costs) for as long as I could.”

According to the business owner, fuel was $3.47 per gallon when Ewing’...