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City to increase nonunion employee pay by 1.9 percent in 2021

LOCK HAVEN - Lock Haven City Council approved a 1.9 percent wage increase for the city’s nonunion employees for 2021 Monday night. City Manager Gregory Wilson said the percentage equals the average Social Security Cost-of-Living increase for 2019, 2020 and 2021. “This is not a number pulled out of a hat,” Wilson said. Wilson recommended council approve the increase, noting that this method would make it easier for the city to accommodate any possible jumps in cost of living in the future. “I know this is a very difficult year with everything that has happened. But we have ...

City to hold comprehensive plan workshop tonight

LOCK HAVEN - City staff will be on-hand tonight from 4 to 6 p.m. at Hangar 1 of the William T. Piper Memorial Airport, 353 Proctor St., Lock Haven, to hear from members of the community about its 2020 comprehensive plan update "Destination Lock Haven." Residents will have the chance to speak with City Planner Abbey Roberts as well as members of The EADS Group and Upstreet Architects, contractors hired to assist with putting together the plan. "We are excited to be back to in-person workshops, but we will still respect health and safety guidelines," Roberts said. "There will be plenty ...

County sees large voter turnout Tuesday morning

LANA MUTHLER/THE EXPRESS Voters across the county found themselves waiting in long lines outside their polling places Tuesday morning. Many expressed their excitement or surprise at just how large of a turnout they saw so early in the morning, something they'd never seen before. The lines ...

Berkshire Hathaway Energy acquires Dominion Energy

Berkshire Hathaway Energy released the following statement, announcing their acquisition of Dominion Energy's Gas Transmission and Storage business: "Berkshire Hathaway Energy has completed its acquisition of Dominion Energy's Gas Transmission and Storage business in the eastern region. This new company, BHE GT&S, is now a standalone subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Energy's Pipeline Group and will be led by Paul Ruppert serving as president. The western division of the business is anticipated to follow in early 2021, pending all outstanding regulatory approvals. In the eastern ...

Human remains positively identified as Alex Mardis

LOCK HAVEN - It's official. The human remains recovered along the Susquehanna River in Pine Creek Township on July 2, have been positively identified as those of Alex F. Mardis, a 31-year-old local man who disappeared Oct. 30, 2019, according to a press release from the office of Clinton County Coroner Zach Hanna. An investigation by state police at Lamar began shortly after Mardis was reported missing in October 2019. He was last seen on Oct. 30, 2019, fishing in the Susquehanna River in Wayne Township. Although many believed that the remains were those of Mardis, the coroner ...

Borowicz wins another term

State 76th District Representative Stephanie Borowicz won a second two-year term in Tuesday's election, outdistancing her opponent Joe Waltz by a nearly a 2-1 vote. Borowicz, a Republican, received an unofficial 10,385 votes to Waltz's 6,346 votes in Clinton County. In Centre County, ...