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The Susquehanna County Council of Governments (COG) was created more than a decade ago as a consortium of townships and boroughs that would share services like sewage enforcement and planning, enforcement of municipal codes, and implementation of building codes.  Each municipality chips in $25 per year for membership, which relieves them of the task of rounding up and managing building inspectors, scheduling scarce sewage enforcement officers (SEOs), and chasing down property owners with too many wrecked cars in the yard.  Harford Township joined COG some years ago and is now on track to pull out.

Oakland Borough’s hydroelectric plant, defunct since the last year of the last century, may be resurrected sometime in the future (near or far no one can say) to once again generate green energy. Residents are advised that Herculean obstacles have to be overcome before the miraculous event actually occurs.

River Bounty, essentially declared dead in March 2014, is on track to end its existence as a legal entity, even as the possibility exists that there is a buyer of Oakland’s defunct dam and the real estate to which River Bounty holds title on the Susquehanna Depot side of the river. By a vote of 7-0 Oakland Borough Council unanimously approved a motion to advertise the sale of the dam at council’s Thursday, June 12 meeting.

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