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Some Berks boroughs not returning water, sewer studies to planning commission
From the Reading Eagle (08/09/10):
Some Berks County boroughs are choosing not to turn in their sewer and water studies for the Berks County Planning Commission's 2010 Sewer and Water Regionalization Study, citing either lack of money or time.
Officials in Strausstown, which has a new sewage system, decided at last Monday night's borough council meeting that they could not afford to pay their engineer to complete the study.
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Ex-court administrator excited to be helping vets in Berks
From the Reading Eagle (08/09/10):
Some form of the word excite comes up often when the topic is the appointment of Dale G. Derr as Berks County's new director of veterans affairs.
One reason is a military career that spanned more than 20 years. Another is his previous experience as county court administrator from 2001 to 2006.
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Will commissioners fill manager's slot?
From the Reading Eagle (07/31/10):
The phone call came out of the blue around 4:15 p.m. Wednesday.
Berks County's Chief Operations Officer Carl Staples said he had a story for me and asked me to come to his office.
As I made the journey from the fifth floor of the courthouse to his office on the 14th floor of the services center, I was trying to guess what this story would be and why it couldn't wait until I saw him at the commissioners meeting the next morning. I couldn't come up with any ideas.
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