Deputy clerk yet to be hired: Uniontown hires city clerk

Uniontown hired a new clerk Jan. 27, one of the last positions to be replaced after several city staff members departed at the end of last year.

Melani Roach of Genesee will now work at least 20 hours a week, if not more, as part-time clerk for the town.

“She’s very well experienced,” said Uniontown mayor Joyce Mayer. Roach has worked in accounting for other companies, but she has not yet worked as a municipal clerk, the mayor said.

Acting clerk Patty Kelly, the mayor’s daughter, has been performing clerk duties for the town since the resignation of the town’s full-time clerk, Cheryl Waller, i...