PIRATES PLAY PART OF TIGER TAMERS Team sweeps series with Thursday’s win — B1 Vol. 87, No. 3 Friday and Saturday, July 3-4, 2015 75 Cents Berlin meeting full of accusations Borough council members quarrel over a variety of issues BY ERIC KIETA
[email protected] each other of holding an ille- corporating a community become a habit at borough Wolf Turzai gal meeting, wasting tax dol- movie night, when council- meetings, when public dis- Seemingly productive talks lars for personal reasons and woman Barb Zerfoss accused agreements become heat- during a Berlin Borough coun- waging personal vendettas the council of holding an ille- ed and yells can often be More cil meeting Thursday quickly against elected officials. gal meeting Monday. heard coming from behind erupted into arguments as The arguments occurred The arguments are the closed-chamber doors. council members accused shortly after talks about in- latest of what seems to have (See BERLIN, A11) vetoes Prison MAIN STREET MAINTENANCE from the changes governor visitation Wolf shoots down policy bills on liquor privatization and BY JUDY D.J. ELLICH
[email protected] school funding Allowing incar- BY MARK SCOLFORO cerated parents more Associated Press physical contact with their children has HARRISBURG (AP) — increased morale for Gov. Tom Wolf vetoed a Re- - both inmates and cor publican-backed bill to pri- rectional officers, ac- vatize the state-controlled cording to Somerset sales of wine and liquor County Jail Warden on Thursday as well as two Greg Briggs. Half of the in- budget-related bills, two mates in the county days after he rejected the jail have children, he main budget bill.