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Police Progress In Bend Borough
By Ted Brewster

The Great Bend Borough Council is serious about creating a police department for the little town. Council has been meeting twice a month all summer in order to focus the effort. They want to have the department functioning even before its new office in the borough garage is ready. They have an “Officer in Charge,” Jon Record, who will help choose 2 more part-time patrolmen. Candidates will be interviewed at the next special police meeting on August 15.

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Forest City Seeks DEP Approval
By Stephanie Everett

When the Forest City Borough Council met on August 1 for its business meeting, a motion was passed to transfer all public fire hydrants in the borough to the care and ownership of PA American Water.

In his report to council, borough solicitor Paul E. Smith provided information on a Main Street loitering ordinance he was asked at the previous meeting to research. Smith explained that while unruly individuals can be cited for other ordinance violations, in court, loitering ordinances traditionally are thrown out as unconstitutional for “infringing on people’s rights.”

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