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Saxton Borough Council Monday night identified with the crisis its hometown ambulance company and many other similar services are suffering when it comes to a lack of available responders to

In the interest of safety and privacy, Saxton Borough Council agreed Monday evening to move its police department to another area of the borough building.

Saxton Borough Councilmen Lester Meck and John Hoffner were reelected council president and vice president, respectively, during council’s reorganizational meeting held Monday evening at Saxton.

Saxton Borough Council Monday evening heard noise complaints from five residents living around the Martin General Store, located along the 500 block of Main Street in the borough.

Saxton Borough Council has agreed to award a lone bid to Rissler’s All-Weather Roofing and Repair of Salemville to replace the borough building roof.

After several years of discussing and debating what to do about a sagging borough building roof, Saxton Borough Council announced this week that two bids to replace the roof have been received. Council President Lester Meck told members that two separate contractors came to the borough and inspected the body of the roof, which covers the borough office and space once occupied by the Broad Top Senior Citizens Center that eventually moved out of the building. Meck did not wish to publicly disclos...

With flowers and trees in bloom so is a growing trash problem throughout Saxton Borough that has its council concerned. Saxton Borough Council on Monday evening expressed concern over a growing trash problem in different areas of the borough and adjoining Liberty Township. Mayor Alan Smith feels it is time to address the problem through enforcement of borough ordinances against the accumulation of trash. Smith said there are problem areas around the borough where the accumulation of bags of tra...

MEDIA — Thirteen illegal gambling machines were removed from two mini-marts in East Lansdowne and Clifton Heights following an undercover investigation in November, Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer announced Wednesday. “Unauthorized gaming machines have proliferated in convenience stores, pizza parlors, and laundromats throughout the commonwealth,” Stollsteimer said in a release. “Due to inaction in Harrisburg, these devices are currently unregulated, w...

Saxton Borough Council Monday evening listened to a proposal for the possible development of a 22.3-acre parcel of land owned by the borough across from the gLeaf Medical Cannabis plant along Liberty Street. Saxton native and now Liberty Township resident Dawn (O’Neal) Chamberlain told council she and her husband are landlords owning several borough properties. She said they “flip” houses or purchase and renovate them and put them back on the tax roll. Chamberlain said she and he...

Saxton Borough resident Lester Meck last week was retained for his eighth year as Saxton Borough Council president. Councilman John Hoffner was retained as vice president. Retention of the two top offices was one of many made during council’s reorganizational meeting held prior to its regular meeting, held at the borough office. Other employees retained included police officers David Buseck and Logan Torntore at a salary of $19 per hour each, respectively, police officer Eric Calhoun at $1...