Primary day is coming up. Here’s a guide to the many local races through Allegheny and Westmoreland counties. Primary election day in Pennsylvania is Tuesday, May 16. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., and anyone in line at 8 p.m. will be allowed to vote. The state
Lifetime Hempfield resident and former township supervisor Jerry Fagert is running again for supervisor in this year’s election and hopes to prioritize public works and the fire department. A Republican, Fagert, 61, was a Hempfield supervisor from 2011 through 2015. “It has been one of my greatest privileges serving the
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A former Hempfield Township supervisor apparently lost his bid to return to the board of supervisors when he lost the Republican nomination in Tuesday’s primary, according to unofficial results.
There was no candidate in the Democratic ballot, but there were 377 write-in votes on the Democratic ticket. That makes it likely some candidate will be running for supervisor as a Democrat in November.
Bretz, 49, and Fagert, 60, discussed improving the township’s fire services, which have 11 departments spread across the municipality.
Hempfield officials have worked to combine the fire stations, previously separate entities, to fall under one department headed by a paid fire chief and deputy fire chief. Officials now are working to have the stations become chartered members, meaning the township will incur financial obligations as well as property and apparatus.