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Moosic Mayor: ‘Clean Up Or Close Down’
Map of Pennsylvania highlighting Lackawanna County (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
MOOSIC, PA — Mayor James Segilia has five words for three motels in the borough.
“Clean up or close down.”
Ever since a standoff at the Rodeway Inn, 4130 Birney Ave., in January tied up local police departments for five hours, Segilia and police chief Charles Maurer have sought ways to close down the Rodeway, Moosic Motor Inn, 4124 Birney Ave., and Trotters Motel, 4217 Birney Ave.
The three motels are a nuisance that attract a dangerous clientele and tie up police resources on countless calls, the mayor said.
“It costs time, aggravation and it takes away from police patrols,” Segilia said.
Read more: http://citizensvoice.com/news/moosic-mayor-clean-up-or-close-down-1.1703585
Law Chases Carrick Landlord For Subpar Rentals
Locator map with the Carrick neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania highlighted. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Editor’s note: All I can say is enforcement, enforcement, enforcement.
For months, a putrid mixture of storm water and raw sewage has pooled outside the town homes on Berg Place in Carrick, a small street tucked behind a row of apartment buildings on Brownsville Road (Update: County officials order tenants to vacate premises).
The modest yards in front of the homes are marred by deep pits covered in flimsy plywood, an incomplete effort to fix problems associated with an unrelated water leak. And on one day this week, more raw sewage soaked one of the front lawns with a child’s wagon and toy car nearby.
The problems don’t end there. Tenants said that at times during the winter, they had virtually no running water, especially after the landlord shut off their main water supply and rigged a hose to siphon water from the nearby apartment buildings. When the above-ground hoses froze, the water stopped flowing, forcing tenants to haul in water in buckets and old milk cartons to even flush a toilet.
“It just dripped,” said Diane Berner, 51, who stayed with her friend who lives in the complex earlier this year. “It was a waste of time to even stand there and fill up a bottle.”
Pottstown Mayor: ‘Interventions’ Planned For Nuisance Properties After Weekend Shooting
Editor’s note: Thank you, Sharon!
POTTSTOWN, PA — Mayor Sharon Thomas said a potential plan is in place to deal with “nuisance” properties in the borough following the shooting and subsequent fights with police early Sunday morning outside the Montgomery Elks Lodge.
“I spoke with Chief (Richard) Drumheller today about some interventions,” said Thomas. “There are some plans but they need time in order to come into position, but this is not the time to implement them because there is an ongoing investigation.”
Pottstown Police responded early Sunday morning for a shooting outside the Montgomery Elks Lodge at 609 Walnut St. Arriving around 2:45 a.m., officers found a man, who multiple sources said was Brandon Germany, wounded on the ground, Pottstown police said. While attending to the victim, a crowd came out of the lodge and at least two people assaulted the officers, police said.
The officers were not identified and were taken to an “area hospital” for treatment.
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