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SALEM — Mayor Cyndi Baronzzi Dickey provided an overview of her 2023 as part of the annual state of the city address. The year 2023 proved to be a busy one for the city at all levels, including the mayor’s office. Dickey said that the completion of renovations to the Sugar Tree Alley including new […]

SALEM — Mayor Cyndi Baronzzi Dickey provided an overview of her 2023 as part of the annual state of the city address. The year 2023 proved to be a busy one

SALEM — City council approved a utilities employee union contract Wednesday. The city’s agreement with the fourth and final union representing the city employees Utilities Workers of America AFL/CIO Local 560, the union which represents the city’s utilities workers, had been discussed extensively in executive sessions of both the utilities commission and city council in recent […]

The utilities commission this month forwarded a new negotiated agreement with department employees to the city council for review. The commissioners voted unanimously to forward the agreement to the city council for review following an executive session for the discussion of contractual matters. Utilities Commission Chairman Bob Hodgson said that the contract included both the […]

SALEM—The city council approved a modification to the city’s fencing ordinance in its meeting Tuesday. The change, which mandates the installation of fen

The city council approved a modification to the city’s fencing ordinance in its meeting Tuesday. The change, which mandates the installation of fencing around any inground pool, as well as any above-ground pool less than four feet in height, or that cannot remove the entry ladder, was first discussed in the rules and ordinances committee’s […]

City council is split on funding for the leaf bag program. In the council’s first meeting since July 18, due to the council taking their annual recess in August, council was split regarding a resolution authorizing City Service Safety Director Joe Cappuzzello to purchase 30,000 paper leaf bags for the city’s annual leaf pickup program […]

City council approved collective bargaining agreements with three of the four unions representing city employees in its Tuesday meeting. Following discussion of the agreements in detail in a nearly hour long executive session for the discussion of contracts and pending legal matters council agreed unanimously to approve agreements with the Fraternal Order of Police Ohio […]

Temperatures dangerously low, he very, very cold, a lot of people moved to shelters with heat and comfort stations like the one behind me in hoboken, to get a hot meal and recharge their phones. >> shepard: what about getting the power back on, how is it coming. >> reporter: they were at 2.7 million and now less than a million, a good number, but not a comfort to people who dont have power. out of state help, 11,000 utilities workers on the ground. 8,000 out of state as far away as ohio. and at ...