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Plum residents voiced concerns and, at one point, erupted in anger as council approved a nearly 40% increase in borough property taxes Wednesday. Council voted 6-1, with Dave Vento against, to increase the borough’s 2024 property tax rate by 1.85 mills, from 4.78 mills to 6.63 mills. It will support

When Plum’s new council is seated in January, one of its first duties will be to fill a vacancy among its ranks. One of council’s seven seats will be vacant after Mike Doyle, the council’s current and longtime president, won election as district judge in this year’s election. Doyle, a

Voters in Plum will have five people to choose from to fill three council seats in November. Those seeking to vote a straight Democratic ticket will elect a Republican. Three seats on the seven-member council are up for election this year. Two incumbents, Dave Vento and Dan Hadley, are not

A Plum street that leads to the borough building, public works facility, Plum EMS and a fire station will be renamed in memory of a late borough manager. Michael Thomas, 57, was among six people who lost their lives Aug. 12 in a house explosion in the borough’s Rustic Ridge

Concerns about air quality, water contamination, environmental pollution and truck traffic were recurring themes as people spoke Tuesday against a Delmont company operating a natural gas well in Plum. Penneco Environmental Solutions wants to convert an existing conventional, shallow natural gas well at its Sedat facility, 1815 Old Leechburg Road,

A local environmental group is joining a legal battle between Plum Council and its zoning board to prevent a second fracking waste injection site in the borough.

Plum officials have moved one step closer to establishing Agriculture Security Areas (ASAs) in the borough. Council unanimously voted Jan. 11 to form an advisory committee with Vice President Dave Vento as its chair. Vento will work with council President Dave Odom to fill the other committee seats, which must include three farmers and a resident. The advisory committee is just one of several steps in developing an ASA. “There’s a lot to it, so I’m just trying to read the manual and get u...

Steven Adams | Tribune-Review Rob Amen | Tribune-Review   TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Environmental groups have called on Gov. Tom Wolf to revoke a state-issued permit that allows an oil and gas company to dispose of fracking fluids at a site in Plum. “We again want to ask the governor of Pennsylvania to uphold our constitutional rights to clean air and pure water and revoke the permit for the Plum wa...