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Happy New Year

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HAPPY NEW YEAR

From the Desk of the Mayor:

2022 has been a year of growth in our amazing borough. I would like to express my gratitude to the public servants that kept our borough running so smoothly during another challenging year. Among its other duties, our Borough Council supplies general oversight, including how our tax dollars are spent. I am happy to say that through their stewardship, we have continued to hold the line on tax increases for the past several years while ensuring that all essential projects and services are funded.

Borough Council: Our council members are liaisons to the Mechanicsburg School Board, our volunteer Fire Department, Council of Governments, Local Emergency Management, and our Parks and Recreation Board. They oversee property and equipment, streets and pavements, sanitation management and our Main Street corridor.

Borough Police and Volunteer Fire Department: Our police department continues to keep us safe: enforcing our speed limits, setting up traffic studies, overseeing new one-way streets, and maintaining law and order. Our Volunteer Fire Department has really stepped it up. Our Fire Chief has strived to make it the best Fire Department we’ve had in years through diligent training of our volunteers. They have also purchased a mini pumper that allows them to assist with a variety of calls that would not have been possible to do with their larger fire truck.

Borough Maintenance Department: Our maintenance department has consistently outdone themselves by making sure that our borough parks and other public properties are kept in top notch condition for our residents to enjoy. They perform extensive preventative maintenance on our borough equipment, which helps to avoid extra costs allowing your dollars to be spent elsewhere.

Parks and Recreation Board: These folks are hard at work all year round bringing you such events as the Easter Egg Hunt, Halloween Party and Christmas Tree Lighting. They have added food trucks at Manor Park which has also been extremely well received. This year’s Tree Lighting was amazing with a wonderful area set up for Santa. I can’t wait to see what they have planned for next year.

Borough Office: I don’t know what we would do without our staff. Our Borough Secretary is the glue that holds our Borough together, I can’t properly express my gratitude for her expertise. Our Codes Enforcement/Zoning Officer has done an exceptional job for our Borough, she amazes me with her dedication and concern for the safety of our residents. Our Treasurer provides us with our budget and does a great job of helping the Borough Council manage the finances. He also makes sure that all our bills are paid on time. Our Solicitor makes sure that we understand what we can and can’t do in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. He often provides us with insight as to what other small municipalities are thinking about on a wide variety of topics, which is a great component of proper decision making. I would like to welcome to our new Tax Collector, who is available for any questions or concerns.

Together, all these groups strive to make our little town a great place to live! It is truly an honor and a privilege to be a part of this amazing ensemble.

Happy New Year Blessings for 2023!

Tammie Dailey

Shiremanstown Borough Mayor

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Unsung Hero

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MANY THANKS!

I would like to take this time to thank an unsung hero of Shiremanstown.   Joan Runkle has been supplying our town with the beautiful potted plants that you see on our Main Street.  What once was a labor of love from the Shiremanstown Historical Society, has now become one individual’s gift to our borough.  Joan not only purchases the flowers, but she plants them and waters them too!  If you see Joan out and about, please take the time to thank her for her dedication.

If you would like to help Joan with caring for the plants, you can reach her at  [email protected].

Joan, the Borough Council and I would like to let you know how much your dedication and kindness touches us!
Mayor Tammie G. Dailey

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Snow Removal

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SECTION 12-2051 RESPONSIBILITY FOR REMOVAL OF SNOW, ICE, DIRT, AND DEBRIS FROM SIDEWALK

EVERY OWNER, OCCUPANCY, LESSEE, TENANT OR OTHER PERSON IN CHARGE OF A BUILDING OR LOT OR GROUND IN THE BOROUGH WHICH ABUTS ANY STREET ALONG WHICH THE SIDEWALK IS PAVED SHALL, WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR (24) HOURS AFTER SNOW HAS CEASED TO FALL OR AFTER THE DEPOSIT OF DIRT OR DEBRIS UPON SIDEWALK, REMOVE THE SNOW OR ICE FROM THE SIDEWALL TO ITS ENTIRE LENGTH AND TO A WIDTH OF AT LEAST THREE (3) FEET OR REMOVE THE DIRT OR DEBRIS.

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Congrats, George!

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Thank you, George!

Borough Council recently recognized Treasurer George W. Lane as he began his 36th year of providing financial expertise to the Borough. Mr. Lane was joined by his wife and two of his sons at a recent Council meeting as Council President John Getz presented a certificate of appreciation for his 35 years of service to the Borough of Shiremanstown with extraordinary dedication to our community and to his position as Borough Treasurer. A clock was also presented in acknowledgment of the hours given as the Borough’s chief financial officer.

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Leap Year Baby

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Leap-year Baby!  

The Borough joins in congratulating Cody and Beverly Pitcher-Johnson on the birth of their daughter, Lillian Claire Pitcher-Johnson.  In addition to being possibly the first Leap Year baby for the Borough (only one in 1,461 are born on February 29th), Lillian surprised her doctors, first responders, and certainly her parents when she made her entrance two weeks early in their Shiremanstown home.

Beverly experienced discomfort earlier in the morning of February 29 and called her doctors who advised she follow a soft diet.  However, when Cody returned home with the prescribed food, he found his wife in active labor and quickly called the Cumberland County Dispatch.  Labor had progressed to the point that while responders were on their way to the East Green Street home, Dispatch talked Cody through the delivery process until  Hampden EMS arrived and successfully completed the delivery of a 6 lb. 15 oz. baby girl at 12:25 PM.  They then took Beverly and their new-born daughter to UPMC to ensure their well-being.  There, Lillian was rushed to the NICU and Beverly was taken for assessment by her medical team.  Cody was briefly frustrated as he waited for news on the health of his wife and daughter; however, as reports of both a healthy Mom and Baby were given,  anxiety turned to joy for this young family.  UPMC appropriately dressed Claire in a hand-knitted kangaroo hat and presented the proud parents with an official Leapling Certificate.

The Pitcher-Johnsons express appreciation to all who made the birth  and homecoming of Lillian a truly extraordinary event. 

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New Trash Pick Up Info

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Trash Pick Up

TV sets will not be picked up by your regular trash collector.   If you wish to dispose of them, please consider donating TV sets to the Salvation Army on Trindle Road in Camp Hill.  They will accept TV sets working or none working order.

If you have any hazardous materials call the Cumberland County Office at 717-240-6489 and they will advise you how to dispose of those items.

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Annual Marathon Registration

The marathon is a long-distance running event with an official distance of 42.195 kilometres (26 miles and 385 yards), usually run as a road race. The event was instituted in commemoration of the fabled run of the Greek soldier Pheidippides, a messenger from the Battle of Marathon to Athens.

The marathon was one of the original modern Olympic events in 1896, though the distance did not become standardized until 1921. More than 500 marathons are held throughout the world each year, with the vast majority of competitors being recreational athletes as larger marathons can have tens of thousands of participants.

Traffic Safety Notice

Road traffic safety refers to methods and measures for reducing the risk of a person using the road network being killed or seriously injured. The users of a road include pedestrians, cyclists, motorists, their passengers, and passengers of on-road public transport, mainly buses and trams. Best-practice road safety strategies focus upon the prevention of serious injury and death crashes in spite of human fallibility (which is contrasted with the old road safety paradigm of simply reducing crashes assuming road user compliance with traffic regulations). Safe road design is now about providing a road environment which ensures vehicle speeds will be within the human tolerances for serious injury and death wherever conflict points exist.

Upcoming Public Meetings

A town hall meeting is an American term given to an informal public meeting, function, or event derived from the traditional town meetings of New England. Typically open to everybody in a town community and held at the local municipal building, attendees generally present ideas, voice their opinions, ask questions of the public figures, elected officials, or political candidates at the town hall. Attendees rarely vote on an issue or propose an alternative to a situation. It is not used outside of this secular context.