Judge: Antis Township can decertify Pinecroft Volunteer Fire Company
Blair County Judge Lou Schmitt Thursday dismissed a temporary injunction he’d previously granted that had stopped the Antis Township supervisors from decertifying the Pinecroft Volunteer Fire Company for refusing to be absorbed into Excelsior Fire Department of Bellwood by a deadline the supervisors had set for early last month. The judge is sympathetic to Pinecroft, but it wouldn’t be right for him to substitute the court’s judgment for the properly exercised political discretion of the supervisors, who comprise a legislative body, Schmitt wrote in his ruling. The ...



