TRR photo by David Hulse Landfill opponents say a planned expansion of the Sullivan County Landfill will double the height of the pictured existing trash mound near the former Apollo Mall.

MONTICELLO, NY — Sheena Levin came to the county legislature last week with a luncheon invitation. “I’m here to invite you all to lunch. But I won’t have to make a lot, because you’ll lose your appetite,” she said.

Levin was among a score of residents from the Beaver Lake community off Rose Valley Road who showed up on August 21 to voice their complaints about the pervasive stink of the existing county landfill in Monticello and their concerns about its planned expansion.

They were the latest contingent of residents voicing complaints in what has become a monthly ritual before the county lawmakers.