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Export sewage customers will pay an additional $5 beginning March 1, after borough officials voted unanimously this week to pass along a $5 rate hike by the Franklin Township Municipal Sanitary Authority that’s set to take effect next month. Council President Barry Delissio said it was the best course of
If Export officials ultimately decide to take back control of Italy Road from PennDOT, they will have nearly $200,000 in grant funding available for sewage work. Council President Barry Delissio announced that the borough had been approved for more than $360,000 through the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Environmental Development’s
While Export officials were able to award a contract for federally-funded paving work this week, another project lined up for the federal Community Development Block Grant program will have to wait. Council unanimously awarded a $93,000 contract to Tresco Paving Corp. for overlay work along Madison and Harrison avenues. Council
Export will expand staff this year at its summer playground program, and the borough’s local business association will trial an outdoor film series there. Councilwoman Melanie Litz secured council’s approval to add a fourth staff member to the daily group supervising children at the annual program, which operates Mondays, Wednesdays
Scott Duff of Export remembers being a kid and catching salamanders in a stream not far from where the White Valley church stands in the borough, on Roosevelt Avenue. In the cemetery on the church grounds, there are two thin, well-worn headstones. “If you come out here in the morning,