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ALBANY — The cleanup of a building that has been an eyesore for decades is welcome, but Albany officials are mostly in the dark about what’s going on at the former National Linen Service site. The building that housed the former business that rented and cleaned work uniforms has been near or at the top of elected officials’ cleanup lists for years, an eyesore with broken windows and possible contamination due
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to cleaning chemicals used near the intersection of two busy thoroughfares, South Slappey Boulevard and West Oglethorpe Boulevard. “I can say praise be to God,” Albany City Commissioner Jon Howard said when told of the cleanup on Monday afternoon. “That place has been closed for 30-something years. It’s really an eyesore. The saving grace was that there were bushes where you couldn’t see it from the road.” At the site, wood and other materials were piled and being moved. The debris visible from the road-
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