Middletown, Hummelstown and Highspire will honor military veterans for their service with parades or programs on Memorial Day on Monday, May 27.

Here is a guide to local events:

MIDDLETOWN
Parade: The parade will begin at 9 a.m. Monday at the MCSO Building on Emaus Street and travel north on Union Street to the Middletown Cemetery on North Union Street.

Middletown’s ability to obtain future state grants may be in jeopardy because the borough is missing information needed to audit a state grant given to the Greater Middletown Economic Development Corp. that was administered through the borough.

A dispute over the missing paperwork is just the latest drama in an ongoing clash between the borough and the organization it created to stimulate economic development 10 years ago. But this time the dispute is affecting the borough’s welfare in new ways, according to Chris Courogen, borough secretary and director of communications. . .

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A real estate tax increase is more than likely for the Middletown Area School District, but how much the tax will go up remains unknown.

Middletown Area School Board voted 7-0 on Monday, May 20 to approve a proposed $39.9 million budget that includes a $400,000 deficit for the 2013-14 school year. Board members Terry Gilman and Sheila Evans were absent.
The district can increase taxes up to 3.43 percent because it applied for an exception from state law that would have set the district’s maximum allowable tax increase at 2.2 percent . . .

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Chris Courogen, Middletown borough secretary and director of communications, denied rumors that he is acting as a campaign manager for Middletown Borough Council incumbents and performing campaign work on borough time.

“I am not their campaign manager and I am not their spokesperson,'' said Courogen. "I am not directly affiliated with any candidate’s campaign.”