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03.18.11

Two residents of the 600 block of California Avenue asked Avalon Council at Tuesday’s meeting to consider residential parking passes.

Prompted by the increase in meter fines from $4 to $10, both residents said that they were home during the day and found it difficult to feed the meter on an hourly basis. One resident said that she worked at night and slept during the day.

Council president Ed Repp said that the request would be considered by council’s safety committee.

01.22.11

Protest spurs fee decrease

Avalon Borough will charge less for garbage collection this year, and possibly institute some new collection procedures, after a standing-room-only crowd debated officials for more than an hour and a half at Tuesday's borough council meeting.

07.23.10

Do-over hearing

Avalon Council will hold another hearing on an application to move a liquor license into the borough after the first hearing proved to be a no-show not only for residents, but for council as well.

The failure to have a quorum (five members) of council present during the first hearing necessitated a second, according to council president Ed Repp.

The owner of the Mia Madre restaurant on California Avenue has asked for permission to transfer a liquor license from McKees Rocks to Avalon so that he can open what he described as a more upscale sports bar in a nearby building.

01.08.10

Avalon Council gets new members, president

Three new members were sworn in to seats on Avalon Council last Monday evening, including one who was just recently named the winner of a council seat by what was probably the lowest number of votes ever.

While Jonathan Bernstein and Thomas Lloyd Jr. were on the November ballot along with incumbents Ed Repp and Ralph Cortese, David Dixon was declared the winner of a council seat for which there were no candidates on the ballot. Dixon received four write-in votes, which was enough to beat out incumbent Albert Wurst, who received only three.

11.20.09

More skills wanted

Avalon will readvertise an opening in its streets department in the hope of getting applicants with some specialized skills.

Streets committee chairman Ed Repp reported at the Nov. 17 council meeting that the laborer who resigned had mechanical repair skills that are sorely missed in the department.

Although the borough already has advertised and received applications for the opening, Repp said that he would like to readvertise and stress that the borough would prefer applicants with welding and small engine repair skills.

08.21.09

News Briefs

Avalon Elementary parking Borough officials and Avalon PTO members have come up with a plan to help ease parking problems created when parents drop-off and pick-up their child-ren at school.

A resolution approved by Avalon Council at its Aug. 18 meeting will allow parents to purchase a parking permit that will let them park in front of the school, between North School Street and North Chestnut Street, from 7:30 until 8:30 a.m. and from 2:30 until 4 p.m. on weekdays.