Page 12 • Frederick County Report • July 12 - July 25 , 2013
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rope is broken and must be replaced. When it was pointed out to the Mayor that people were concerned about the lack of the flags, he said he would get maintenance to replace the ropes both on the town hall flag pole and the one in the park right away.
House Cleaning Councilor Tripp Chewning
By Sue Golden Frederick County Report Two members of the Middletown town council resigned in recent days. Councilor Tripp Chewning, the head of the personnel and finance committee resigned for health reasons. Councilor Donna M.G. Gray, the head of the ordinance committee, resigned without providing a reason. Councilor Chewning, who frequently criticized the council prior to being selected to fill a vacancy on the council, stepped into the lurch when former May-
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Councilor Donna M.G. Gray
or Mark Brown and Councilors Gil Barrington and John Blaisdell resigned en mass. He took up the mantle of the personnel and finance committee chairman when Councilor Carl Bernhards resigned for personal reasons. “I think the world of Tripp” said Mayor Charles H. Harbaugh IV. “He was an extremely capable chairman of the personnel and finance committee. Under Tripp’s leadership, the town was in the black $185,000 last year.” Councilor Gray was the longest serving member of the current council. “Donna and I joined the council together in 2010. She is
one of the reasons the council was able to get so much done in the last few years, especially the budget” Mayor Harbaugh said. “These are not life time jobs” according to Mayor Harbaugh. “Sometimes your life changes and you need to move on.” Applications for the two vacant seats on the council and for two vacant seats on the planning commission can be picked up at the town hall. The deadline to apply is August 1st. At press time, no one had applied for any of the vacant positions. Both council positions are expected to be filled at the August council
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meeting. The positions will be held until the general election in November. On a side note, for those upset that the town has not been flying the flags in front of town hall, the
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