Well they did it. The coalition of the incompetent, the Ephrata Borough Manager, Bob Thompson, and the Borough Council, by a 6-2 vote, are raising your property taxes. Why? Because they couldn’t make the tough choices to balance the Borough budget. Once more, property owners in Ephrata bear the burden of their poor leadership and management.
Additionally, Thompson blamed the method by which taxes are collected by the County to explain the problem. When all else fails, blames somebody else: typical of a politician or a government bureaucrat.
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The disturbed and economically challenged Ephrata borough council is seeking to raise taxes on property owners. These political animals seem unable to control their power mad lust for money.
We’ve elected them to keep our town’s financial house in order, but they are unable to do so. The council appears unwilling to balance the budget, cut spending, or reduce the salaries of the overpaid borough workers. Once more, as is the case on both the federal, state, and county level, the average American worker and taxpayer is screwed.
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Police have charged a Reinholds man with shooting at a group of people Friday night in Ephrata.
Michael Vincent Roberts, 24, was in his vehicle when he got into a verbal argument with four people standing on the sidewalk in front of the Veterans of Foreign Wars at 135 S. State St., according to Ephrata police.
Drunk dude flees from hit & run in Ephrata: arrested in possession of weed and major amount of stupidity
21 May 2011 American CultureEPHRATA TWP.: Adam Mutzabaugh, 23, of Ephrata, arrested at 2:15 a.m. Friday on North Reading Road after being involved in a hit-and-run crash, state police at Ephrata said. Police said Mutzabaugh struck a curb and a mailbox, disabling his 1994 Jeep Cherokee. Mutzabaugh was arrested while attempting to flee “in a vehicle leaving the scene,” [...]