Lancaster city’s Home Rule Study Commission is currently reconsidering nearly every aspect of city government to decide what should stay and what should go.
A draft of the city’s new comprehensive plan has been published, and its author is looking for constructive criticism including opinions on a recommendation that the city create a $50 million fund over the next decade and a half to help realize the plan’s vision. That vision is centered on an upgrade of the […]
An article published in the Mirror’s Dec. 11 edition not only reported on the Beaver County community of Aliquippa’s exodus from state fiscally distressed status. That article also delved into Altoona’s exodus from the same program in 2017 after only five years of that unwanted status. With the start of a new year one […]
City Councilman Ron Beatty this week cast the lone dissenting vote during council’s ratification of Mayor Matt Pacifico’s nominations to fill seats on the city’s authorities, boards and commissions explaining afterward that it signaled his disagreement with Pacifico’s approach to filling those seats. Council appointed 14 new members unanimously in a single block vote, […]
City Council on Monday accepted City Manager Omar Strohm’s retirement, appointed Police Chief Joe Merrill as his interim replacement and named Deputy Police Chief Derek Swope as interim police chief. Strohm has retired after 21 years as an Altoona employee, including the most recent three in the top administrative post. Strohm, 61, will become associate […]