Borough Council voted 4 to 3 to sell 1 West State Street last Thursday evening for $670,000 to Claudio Sandolo, after voting down the offer from Christian Christiansen and The Heritage Group 3 to 4. Because each offer goes by many names, for readers, to clarify: Christian Christiansen, The Heritage Group, and Bluestone development are all the same name for the first...

Borough Council met on June 2nd at 7:38 PM for their workshop meeting. Of note to borough residents: 3rd Street Dam Design Updates An engineer from Schnabel Engineering was asked to present the status of the design for the 3rd Street Dam. The engineer, John Harrison, covered the status of the various applications to PennDOT and other regulatory agencies, and was...

Borough Council met for their workshop on May 5th, 2011 at 7:30 PM and discussed the a variety of issues. The highlights are: SPCA Terminating Contract with local governments The Delaware County SPCA has recently terminated its contract with local municipalities to board stray animals, leaving many local area governments in the lurch. After June 30th, any strays...

[Editor’s Note: Sorry for the delay in compiling this summary, it is from March’s legislative meeting] The following outlines what happened at the Media Borough Council Legislative meeting on Thursday, March 17th: Pete Alyanakian started the meeting by calling for a moment of silence in honor of the loss of resident Tom Flynn, who had passed away in the...

[Editor’s Note: This article was updated on April 21st, 2011 to make a correction.] Media Borough Council met at 7:30 PM on Thursday, February 17th, 2011. The contested issues of the meeting were surrounding the appointments to the boards and commissions of Media, which has recently been changed. Town Talk reported on this on February 8th. Peter Williamson was...