Town Council meeting: To upgrade or to be of aid
By Iyee Jagne - For the Chronicle | Feb 19, 2021
This was the former Shepherdstown Visitors Center, before it closed during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Iyee Jagne
SHEPHERDSTOWN The monthly Shepherdstown Town Council was rescheduled from Feb. 9, to be held on Feb. 11 over Zoom.
Attendees included Shepherdstown Mayor Jim Auxer, Town Recorder Lori Robertson and Town Council members Cheryl Roberts, Jim Ford, Chris Stroech, Jenny Haynes and Marty Amerikaner.
The meeting started with a short discussion about how to inform town residents of the monthly meetings, to increase their town involvement. One way the town is hoping to encourage an increase in town involvement is through its new emailing system. The new system would notify town residents when meetings are taking place, as opposed to checking the town page. Emails from the system, which would share other important Shepherdstown-related information, would be sent out on a weekly or mo
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By Toni Milbourne - For the Chronicle | Dec 11, 2020
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