Odors and noise from Bright Feeds’ commercial food waste plant in Berlin drew a chorus of complaints from neighbors last winter, but for the past several months the controversy appears essentially over following installation of 35-foot-high thermal oxidizer.

The pioneering facility that converts food waste to animal feed is back to normal operations, and neighbors’ monthly grievances at selectmen’s meetings have fallen silent.

“It’s great. I consider this pretty much resolved,” said Town Manager Ryan Curley , whose office was inundated with calls and emails at the peak of the dispute in January.

The situation was a fairly familiar story for any community where industry is close to homes: The operations of the business began to annoy residents, and patience ran out as months went b

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