By AMBER SOUTH@ShipNews Girl
Shippensburg residents who use the area’s soon-to-be-displaced senior center filled a few rows of seats at this week’s borough council meeting, in support of finding a new facility in the borough.
The senior center will lose its current facility on Cleversburg Road in Cumberland County’s Southampton Township on June 30, and Shippensburg has become a popular choice for the next location.
Ann Hinkle, director of the senior center, issued what she called a plea to council to play a role in offering solutions.
“It’d be wonderful to have a collective …

By AMBER SOUTH
@ShipNewsGirl
SHIPPENSBURG — In wake of several complaints, Shippensburg Borough Council has repealed a recent decision to eliminate some parking on East Fort Street.
That means parking spaces between High and Queen streets that had been eliminated by the ordinance are available again.
Other no-parking regulations were included in the ordinance passed in early March, but they were only added to fix inaccuracies between the language of the ordinance and signage on East Fort Street, Borough Manager Earl Parshall said.
Council’s decision reflected a recommendation from the …

By AMBER SOUTH
@ShipNewsGirl
Shippensburg Borough Council is reconsidering a recent decision to eliminate some parking on East Fort Street.
A number of people have come forward in opposition of an ordinance council adopted last month that eliminates parking spaces on both sides of the street between North Prince and North Washington steets; south side from North Washington Street east approximately 164 feet; north side from North Washington Street east approximately 248 feet; and the north side between High and Queen streets.
Parking prohibition on both sides of East Fort Street for the …

By BRIAN HALL @bkhallpo
SHIPPENSBURG — The Shippensburg Area school board on Monday night approved a new tax-abatement zone for a section of farmland adjacent to Interstate 81 and the owner hopes to entice a major distribution center tenant.
A possible tenant has emerged for a property owned by Liberty Property Trust. L. Michael Ross, executive director of Franklin County Area Development Corp., described the company with the “national profile and global profile comparatively to Volvo.”
“What makes it more significant is we’re looking a lot at the uncertainty of Letterkenny right now,” …

By AMBER SOUTH
@ShipNewsGirl
SHIPPENSBURG — Shippensburg Borough Council on Tuesday unanimously passed resolutions to declare two properties public nuisances, pending verification that notices were received by the owners.
Abatement notices were placed Tuesday on the front doors of the properties at 150 W. Orange St. and 454 E. King St., and were mailed to the owners.
The notices give the property owners 30 days to fix the problems causing their properties to be public nuisances. If the issues are not resolved, the resolutions give the borough the power to take further steps. These …

By AMBER SOUTH
@ShipNewsGirl
SHIPPENSBURG — Shippensburg Borough Council voted 5-1 Tuesday to approve an amendment that tightens up language in the noise ordinance and improves evidence of violations.
Council member Steve Brenize cast the dissenting vote to stay in line with his vote on Feb. 5 against advertising the amendment.
The amendment includes a more concrete explanation of what constitutes a noise ordinance violation. It keeps most of the language the same, but uses the phrase, “a noise that can be heard,” to clarify how loud a noise can be to …

By AMBER SOUTH
@ShipNewsGirl
SHIPPENSBURG — Shippensburg Borough Council on Tuesday unanimously passed resolutions to declare public nuisances at two properties, pending notification that abatement notices were received by the owners.
Abatement notices were placed Tuesday on the front door of each property, 150 W. Orange St. and 454 E. King St., and were mailed to the owners.
The notices give the property owners 30 days to fix the problems causing their properties to be structurally deficient. If the issues are not resolved, the resolutions give the borough the power to take …

By AMBER SOUTH
@ShipNewsGirl
Local college students praised a proposal to flat-fund higher education and promote smaller tuition increases, but they also worried about the implications a minimal budget could have on their educations.
Gov. Tom Corbett proposed a 2013-14 budget plan this week that includes flat funding for higher education, keeping with last year’s level of $1.58 billion. In return, he asked the 18 publicly funded universities to keep tuition increases “as low as possible.”
A Public Opinion reporter visited popular gathering areas Thursday at Penn State Mont Alto and Shippensburg …

By AMBER SOUTH
@ShipNewsGirl
SHIPPENSBURG — Shippensburg Borough Council voted 5-1 Tuesday to advertise an amendment that would firm up language in the noise ordinance and improve evidence of violations.
The change followed a recommendation made by Police Chief Fred Scott at the Jan. 15 meeting, a few months after he first brought the issue to council. He said the ordinance’s loose language made it difficult both for police to enforce it and for Magisterial District Justice H. Anthony Adams to hand down guilty verdicts.
If approved, the amendment will add the phrase …

By WILLIAM KAUFFMAN
News Editor/The Slate
Republican Darren Brown, non-traditional full-time Shippensburg University student and lifelong Chambersburg resident, is running for mayor of his hometown.
Brown was born in 1980, attended Mary B. Sharpe Elementary School and graduated from Chambersburg Area Senior High School in 1999.
He joined the U.S. Army and is a veteran of the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars. He now resides in Chambersburg with his wife and majors in political science at SU.
His political aspirations began when he worked for State Rep. Rob Kauffman’s 2004 campaign and after being inspired by …