Now is the time for downtown revitalization! Agreed. Everybody is primed to do something! Check. Let’s move from the potential to the reality! Um ... well, there we have a problem.

We’re proud to provide a Voters’ Guide in this week’s paper. This Voters’ Guide lists candidates in the six contested local races in the May 21 primary election – for Middletown Borough Council, Middletown mayor, Londonderry Twp. supervisor and Royalton Borough Council’s First Ward seat – and provides their answers to questions posed by the Press And Journal.

This Guide’s sole purpose is to help voters cast an informed vote when they go to the polls. Just to let you know, questionnaires were sent to ALL candidates in contested races.

Our thanks and respect to the candidates who responded. Our question to those candidates who declined: Why?

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Last week, I was encouraged by spirited talk offered by a group of business people gathered to get a better understanding of the borough’s proposal for downtown Middletown’s rehab.

It was the second meeting for the informal group. The first ended with a call for an official from the borough to attend a second meeting to “clear the air” of innuendos, misconceptions and previous confrontations.

By Joe Sukle

When Middletown Borough chooses to spend dollars outside the community, it makes bad business sense.

The turkey and stuffing are long gone. Place settings and cookers are tucked away. Family and friends are back in their routine.