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Voters elected one incumbent and one newcomer to the Petersburg borough assembly this month.

Petersburg voters this month overwhelming supported bonding to overhaul and increase local electrical generation capacity.

Rate hikes for curbside collection and fines for unsecured garbage cans are part of a new ordinance that passed its first of three readings by the Petersburg borough assembly Monday. The changes are the result of a rate study and ongoing problems with bears seeking an easy meal.

Petersburg is revising a nearly 50-year-old local law on disease control. A proposed draft law removes the possibility for a health officer to force vaccination but still allow measures to prevent the spread of infectious disease from people coming to Petersburg.

Petersburg still has a high number of active COVID-19 cases and like other places is feeling a shortage of testing and treatment supplies.