There were no lines but there were customers for the first legal sales of marijuana this week in Petersburg. Shortly after noon Tuesday, people started trickling in to the new business called “The 420” off a side alley on main street.
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The Petersburg Municipal Power and Light building in downtown will be getting over half a million dollars in upgrades after all. Petersburg’s borough assembly Monday voted to award a contract to remodel the building at the intersection of Nordic and Haugen drives.
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Petersburg voters will get to decide a wide range of issues this fall as the October borough ballot is taking shape this summer. Petersburg’s borough assembly Monday agreed to add several questions to the general election ballot and also let voters decide on two citizens’ initiatives.
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Petersburg’s borough assembly will try again to meet Monday, July 17 after failing to have a quorum for a meeting earlier this month. Most of the agenda items were already scheduled for the July 3rd meeting, including the two citizens ballot initiatives that should appear on the ballot in October. Those will mean a vote on whether to allow off-road vehicles on borough streets and whether to continue adding fluoride to the local water supply. Both efforts were successful in getting the signatures needed to get on the ballot.
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Four of the six people on the Petersburg borough assembly could be facing a recall election. A group of local residents has turned in applications to the borough seeking a recall petition for assembly members Jeigh Stanton-Gregor, Nancy Strand, Kurt Wohlhueter and Eric Castro. The borough’s attorney is reviewing the applications.
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