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Match-A-Roo, Are you? Page 32 Middleburg’s Community Newspaper May 29, 2014 ~ June 26, 2014
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t the May 8 regular meeting of the Middleburg Town Council Mayor Betsy Davis congratulated Council members Kevin Hazard, Darlene Kirk and Mark Snyder on their re-election and Erik Scheps on his election to the Council. Mayor Daivs also thanked Tom Dionne for his willingness to serve. He would be a valuable addition, she noted, to many of the Town’s advisory committees. Council member Bundles Murdock also congratulated Mayor Davis on her re-election. The Search for a New Town Planner In response to a question from Council member Bundles Murdock on the status of the search for a new Town Planner and Administrator to replace David Beniamino, Town Administrator Martha Semmes reported that she had received two good resumes and hoped to have more before the May 23rd deadline Burglary Case Both “Closed” and “Open” Chief of Police Panebianco reported that Lt. Mike Price, Middleburg PD’s chief investigator, had “made a lot of headway” in what is now being called the “Hill School Burglary Case.” Prince, he said, had “come up with a suspect” who had been “tied to a string of jewelry thefts along the east coast. The suspect, Panebianco noted, could not be tied to Middleburg’s case. Nevertheless, according to Panebianco no less than “twenty-one felony cases were being assigned to this individual, whose arrest was the direct result of Lieutenant Prince’s investigation.” Prince is thus “still working Middleburg’s case and has not given up.” Michelle Obama Visit Reporting on the First Lady’s recent visit to Middleburg , Chief Panebianco noted with a wry smile that one might say the visit did, indeed, “stress” Middleburg’s small Police Department. He commended newly sworn-in Officer Mark Putnam for working an extra twenty hours to provide the level of security the Department was required to provide for the First Lady. The Department had someone in the Secret Service Command Center the entire time Mrs. Obama was in town. Drug Take Back Program a Success
Middleburg’s Drug Take Back Program was “a huge success,” Chief Panebianco reported, “with fifty-five pounds of expired drugs having been received.” He urged the people of Middleburg to “plan ahead and to even save their pet medication for the next event.” Council member Kathy Jo Shea noted that the Town’s “Go Green Committee” members did not particularly like the DEA poster for the Drug Take Back Program. The poster called Continued page 12
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