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JOSEPH — The city of Joseph has a new administrator with the hiring of Dan Larman during the Thursday, July 7, City Council meeting.

JOSEPH — The Joseph City Council agreed to disband its Zoning Ordinance Task Force and replace it with an official Planning Commission during the council’s meeting Thursday, Feb. 3, interim

JOSEPH — Employee disputes that were believed to have been laid to rest resurfaced recently and were the subject of an emergency executive session held by the Joseph City Council

JOSEPH — The Joseph City Council began the road back from dysfunction, Tuesday, July 20, by voting in a new mayor pro-tem and taking other measures in the wake of the censure and resignation of one of its members. Councilor Lisa Collier was elected by her peers to serve as mayor pro-tem, the position former Councilor Kathy Bingham was removed from June 30, as well as from committee assignments for a year and banning her from contact with city employees after several complaints against her ...

The executive session will begin at 5:30 p.m. at the Joseph Community Events Center. It will offer city Councilor Kathy Bingham the opportunity to respond to complaints in a Feb. 21 letter to the council written by businessman Gary Bethscheider saying Bingham accused Bethscheider of making an obscene gesture at her at the regular February council meeting. She has opted to make her defense in the closed executive session. Eckstein said that after Bingham makes her defense, the council will reces...

JOSEPH — A larger-than-usual audience turned out for the final Joseph City Council meeting of the year, Thursday, Dec. 10, when the council gave its official approval to a sewage treatment facilties plan and bade farewell to Mayor Teresa Sajonia as she presided over her last session. Brad Baird, of Anderson Perry and Associates, presented the council with a finalized plan for the more than $3.8 million project that he asked the council to formally adopt so his firm could add language that ...