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Palmyra mourns former mayor Fred Carpenter; council discusses memorial ideas
Summary
Council members and the mayor honored longtime Palmyra public servant Fred Carpenter, who died March 6, 2025. The council discussed possible memorials including renaming sites or establishing a community garden and shared funeral and visitation details.
Palmyra officials on March 11 paid tribute to former Mayor Frederick "Fred" Carpenter, 78, who died March 6, 2025, at the Lebanon VA Medical Center, and discussed ways to recognize his decades of public service.
Carpenter served Palmyra in multiple roles over decades: as appointed EMA director beginning in March 1979 (resigning in November 2001), as a borough council member elected in November 1987 and sworn in January 1988 (serving until December 2007 and again from July 2008 to June 2010), and as Palmyra mayor from June 2010 until his resignation in January 2025. He was a U.S.…
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