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Former commissioner demands retraction; commissioners and public debate landfill management
Summary
Former Commissioner Tony Macera challenged recent coverage that suggested mismanagement, prompting a public exchange with current commissioners about landfill finances, regulatory constraints and a pledge to bring in outside management for the landfill.
A former Lycoming County commissioner, Tony Macera, used the public-comment period Dec. 16 to ask the current board for a public apology and retraction of a county news article that he said wrongly accused past commissioners of mismanagement.
Macera defended past budgetary decisions and described efforts he said were taken to address long-term fiscal challenges, including work on the county'owned golf course, jail overcrowding and landfill operations. "To say…
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