Monessen officials respond to Shorraw’s claims
By JEFF STITT
jstitt@yourmvi.com
Monessen Councilman Anthony Orzechowski and Solicitor Joseph R. Dalfonso rebuked Mayor Matt Shorraw on Friday for a letter he sent to various area newspapers that they say is “full of lies” and inaccuracies.
Shorraw, who has missed 26 consecutive council meetings, states in the letter that he and Councilman Gil Coles, who has been absent from council meetings for the past 12 months, have been skipping meetings “because we have no desire to be part of the corrupt practices of our colleagues, and in time the full story and details will come out.”
He did not offer any further comment on the details of what “will come out.”
Shorraw says he wrote a $25,000 grant last year, not through the city, but through the Mon River Town Coalition. He said the grant was awarded through the Westmoreland and Community Foundation and “would have initiated phase one to clean 6th Street Park, and rebuild the retaining walls between 6th and McKee, so as to avoid a landslide.”
Shorraw writes that the project would allow for Monessen-based Douglas Education Center students to create a public art piece and would provide funding to help Monessen High School students and other volunteers lead park clean-up efforts.
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