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The full membership of the Susquehanna Borough Council found a full meeting hall on Tuesday, Dec. 11th. As the end of the year draws close the meeting was full of review and reflection. Some bright stars shone on the horizon however, from students seeking opportunities to volunteer, and a cooperative effort by the Lions Club and boy scouts to help beautify the neighborhood. Not only would this help involve the community’s youth, but it would help keep the town employees from using large portions of their 32 hour schedule on the multiple park spaces throughout the borough.

The Starrucca House renovation came back under discussion. As this is under legal review the council members would only say that the meeting was not the venue for its consideration or comment. While on the topics of meetings and practices, the council announced that, as of January meetings will be rescheduled to the third Wednesday of the month, time and venue will remain unchanged. The next meeting will still be on December 27th and will have the budget (which is available for inspection at the town office) as its main focus.

The Harford Township Supervisors altered the customary order of their monthly meetings on December 11th to entertain petitioners representing the Harford Water Association, Inc., the 77-year-old, largely volunteer group that manages the water supply for Harford village. Lawyer Charles Wages and a few representatives of the Association chatted with the Supervisors over maps and other documents in an attempt to straighten out a complex tangle of property rights and leases. With 5 or 6 separate conversations going on in the small office at once, it was a little difficult to follow the discussion, but the key people managed to understand one another well enough in about half an hour to make some progress.

It seems that in about 1973 the Water Association formed something called the “Harford Municipal Authority” in order to facilitate a loan to replace its reliance on water from Tyler Lake with a new well. Ultimately the name “Harford Municipal Authority” became untenable, since it would confuse the responsibility for the newer Harford Sewer System being developed for some areas of the township.

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