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ournal-herald THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2022 • Volume 42 – No. 8
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Penn Lake Council votes 3-2 to end local police coverage by Seth Isenberg & Suzanne Winters
LIONS PRIDE: The White Haven Lions Club mascot steps out at the front of the annual Halloween parade on Sunday, October 16, followed by the Crestwood High School band. More photos on page 11, and on our Facebook page. JH: Seth Isenberg
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A split vote of Penn Lake council members John Burden and Dan Eustice in favor of contracting with White Haven Police for the next year, and Shaun Kuter, David Longmore and Paul Rogan against, closed the books on negotiations between White Haven Borough and Penn Lake over policing. The topic was on the agenda of the October 13 Penn Lake Park Borough meeting. Prior to the vote, the contract with new language requested by Penn Lake was discussed. Penn Lake borough’s solicitor, Krystin Giarrantano, indicated they are fine with the language both with Penn Lake
borough and White Haven regarding policing. After the vote, the mood of the audience that had filled the Penn Lake Community House became angry. Among the first to speak during public participation after the business of the meeting wrapped up was White Haven Borough manager Linda Szoke. She asked Council when she should advise White Haven Police to stop coverage. Rogan said since the contract had already expired, he figured the end of the year. Others from the audience demanded to know from council what was so egregious to them that they felt justified denying local police coverage in direct disregard and dismissal of the requests of so many residents… after all of their demands
had been met by WHPD. Longmore answered, saying they “never got what they demanded.” A voice from the audience asked (again) ‘what did they not get?’ Rogan indicated they never got an explanation regarding the police report in question. In response, Szoke said Penn Lake council members were given an explanation multiple time. She indicated the officer made a mistake in his report and it has been corrected, they have apologized to the resident in question and they offered to redact the report, but this was refused. She advised Rogan to ask the Solicitor how a redaction of a police report is done. See PENN LAKE/POLICE, page 5