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Wright's Seafood to be Auctioned at Sheriff's Sale

Former restaurant closed again in late January.

The former Wright’s Seafood Inn property will be auctioned off through a sheriff’s sale early next month.

The landmark restaurant in Heidelberg, which was re-branded as for about a month, closed in late January.

Joseph DeCarlo purchased the building from the Davis family and renovated it after Chartiers Creek flooded the restaurant during Hurricane Ivan in 2004. DeCarlo reopened the restaurant in 2007 and tried unsuccessfully to make it profitable.

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Wright’s Seafood Inn had been a staple in the area, opening in 1898 before Heidelberg was designated as a borough.

“That was a business sustaining itself longer than the borough,” Heidelberg Manager Joe Kauer said. “So that made it unique.”

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The sheriff’s sale will be held May 2, and Kauer said borough officials would like to see it become a prominent restaurant again. Kauer told members of Heidelberg Borough Council about the sheriff’s sale date during Tuesday night’s workshop meeting.

“We’re hoping someone will want to come and make it something special again,” Kauer said.

 

Also during the meeting…

-The borough recently asked the volunteer fire department if it could use the fire hall for monthly voting meetings as residents have packed into the small council chambers in the borough building over the past few months. The department agreed to let the council use its facility, but members said they are not sure if they want to go there. It is expected to be discussed further next week. “There’s just some options out there,” Council President Ray Losego said.

-The police department is considering purchasing a new Chevy Tahoe and retrofitting its marked Ford Explorer vehicle into a K9-equiped unit. The department would then sell the current K9 car to help with costs. The purchase and equipment installation is expected to cost $38,457. The borough has $30,000 in state grant money and expects to get at least $2,500 for the trade-in of the old K9 vehicle.

-The council agreed to hire Benjamin Farrow to work for the borough’s public works department this summer at a rate of $9 per hour. This will be the third consecutive summer that Farrow has worked for the borough.


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