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Muncy Borough Council voted 3-2 to appoint George Henry to fill the seat vacated by Brooke Bishop on the board and took care of other business during its recent
May 7, 2021 Borough council turned down a request from the Muncy Veterans of Foreign Wars to host a Memorial Day parade due to several obstacles due to compliance with Pennsylvania Department of Transportation policy. According to Borough Council President Ed Feigles, the VFW asked the borough to stand in as an engineer to obtain a permit for the event from PennDOT, however as a municipality the borough is unable to do so. Feigles said Additionally, borough council does not know what condition the intended route would be in given planned construction during that time. If the road is milled ...
jbergmueller@sungazette.com Several rural Lycoming County municipalities are slated to receive federal funding to help offset the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, per the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. The $350 billion dollars included in the funding package will be allocated by state governments to local municipal governments by population. However, local municipalities are still in the process of putting their heads together to determine how to apply the funding in their respective areas. Muncy Borough has been allocated $238,470, however, according to Ed Feigles, Muncy Borough Counci...
jbergmueller@sungazette.com Three months after releasing its former borough manager from his contract, the Muncy Borough Council has decided to hire a new borough manager under a part-time arrangement. Charley Hall, a former 25-year district administrator to former state representatives Brett Feese and Garth Everett, will assume the $28-an-hour position and will work 20 to 35 hours as needed by the borough, according to Ed Feigles, the borough council president and acting borough manager. The borough council voted to hire Hall unanimously after it parted ways with Dennis Holt as borough m...