Lock Haven’s State Store Will Stay

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LOCK HAVEN — Therecord-online has learned from multiple sources that local efforts to keep the Liquor Control Board store in downtown Lock Haven will be successful; the state store will stay.

Credible sources have confirmed to therecord-online that the LCB has decided to not relocate its downtown Lock Haven store to a site at Millbrook Plaza along Hogan Boulevard in Bald Eagle Township; virtually all that remains, according to these sources, is final approval at the next Liquor Control Board meeting in late March or early April.

The state had been looking since at least last April at relocating the state store to a vacant storefront at Millbrook Plaza. But local officials, once learning of the relocation plan, had mounted an effort to keep the liquor store at its E. Main St. location. City of Lock Haven and Clinton County officials had voiced support to keep the business as an “anchor store” in the downtown. Most recently an online petition campaign had been mounted.

Last year an LCB spokesman said the state Department of General Services was in the process of reviewing a proposed lease for a Hogan Boulevard site but word today is that state agency will be looking at a two-year renewal with Ron Pete, owner of the business’s present site. The state earlier had extended its lease with Pete through the end of this month.

State Rep. Mike Hanna (D-Lock Haven) has been an active proponent of keeping the store on Main Street. He declined to comment on the unofficial word that the store will stay in Lock Haven, stating, “I have been asked not to.”

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