Westmoreland Commissioner Gina Cerilli Thrasher was confirmed on Tuesday to fill a vacancy on the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board. Thrasher, 37, a Democrat from Hempfield is serving out her second four-year term and announced in February she would not seek reelection, instead focusing on a career as a lawyer.
A complaint was lodged this week with the Westmoreland County Board of Elections asking it to investigation a claim that Southwest Greensburg improperly lobbied borough voters to support a referendum on the Nov. 8 ballot. If the referendum is approved, it would eliminate a 1-mill annual library tax. The complaint
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Westmoreland County officials said
this week no decisions have been reached about how it will handle bills recently received from an Ohio direct mailing company that claimed mechanical issues caused two delays in sending ballots out to voters this fall.
The county received two invoices earlier this month totaling more than $149,000 from Midwest Direct Presort Mailing for the printing and mailing of ballots. The Cleveland-based company was hired in September by the county commissioners to work with the elections bureau this fall.
The county has yet to pay those bills. One charged the county to print about 10,000 ballots that were distributed in person to voters at the courthouse. Another bill for $142,000 was for printing and mailing ballots directly to more than 76,000 voters ahead of the Nov. 3 general election.