A former Tyrone Borough councilman has decided he would like to sit on the municipality\u2019s governing body again.
\nMorrison Street resident Edward L. Isenberg served on council from 1980 to 1989, according to a statement released to The Daily Herald about his candidacy in the May 17 primary.
\n\u201cI want the flood control project completed,\u201d stated Isenberg. \u201cI know Tyroners voted not to finish the flood control project, but I think the problem must be addressed.
\n\u201cThat referendum took place because council failed to fully inform the people,\u201d said Isenberg. \u201cVoters were afraid they\u2019d have to bear the costs. They weren\u2019t informed that federal, state and county money was going to do the job.
\n\u201cProperty owners were seeing reservoir, water treatment and sewer plant projects coming at them and they feared completing flood control meant a tax hike,\u201d said Isenberg.
\nHe also mentioned the Tyrone Watershed as another concern which led to his decision to run for council again.
\nIsenberg said, \u201cWhen I was on council from 1980 to 1989, ARCO offered the borough a $1 million bond if we would allow them to drill for the natural gas up there.
\n\u201cThey offered to drill a well and cap it, guaranteeing that they would not destroy the watershed environment. Council decided not to do so. I was a little leery of it myself since the reservoir work was underway and was afraid the work would ruin the water.
\n\u201cNow, since we have the water treatment plant, drilling up there doesn\u2019t worry me,\u201d said Isenberg. \u201cWhat does worry me, however is if one day Tyrone should turn the watershed over to an operating water authority.
\n\u201cAnything and everything on that watershed would belong to the water authority,\u201d said Isenberg. \u201cAnything and everything on that watershed would belong to that company and Tyrone Borough would lose all that revenue from whatever resources are there; timber, natural gas, water.
\n\u201cI remember too well when council sold off timber up there,\u201d continued Isenberg. \u201cInstead of putting that money into the authority they put it into the general fund and it is long gone.
\n\u201cAny profits from any resources in the watershed should go to paying off the water debts we have and for any new lines that have to be put into the Tyrone infrastructure in the future, like those under Washington Avenue which PennDOT insists must be in place before resurfacing begins,\u201d concluded Isenberg.
\nThe former councilman is a 1960 graduate of Tyrone Area High School and served in the Marines for several years before returning to Tyrone.
\nIsenberg said he \u201cmade history\u201d in 1984, after he left council to run for mayor. He lost the election, but when Councilman Bob Dawson died in office, he applied to be appointed to the seat. The sitting council at the time, turned down his appointment, according to Isenberg. He said he then took his case to Blair County Court. Isenberg explained the court said he was the most knowledgeable of the candidates and became the only-court-appointed councilman in Tyrone\u2019s history.
\nIsenberg is also a long-time employee of Gardners Candies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A former Tyrone Borough councilman has decided he would like to sit on the municipality\u2019s governing body again. Morrison Street resident Edward L. Isenberg served on council from 1980 to 1989, according to a statement released to The Daily Herald about his candidacy in the May 17 primary. \u201cI want the flood control project completed,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}