Dunmore Police Chief Sal Marchese retired this week, concluding a 36-year career at the department that included 13 years as chief.<\/p>\n
Marchese gathered Thursday at police headquarters to celebrate his nearly four decades of service to the department. He smiled at a lunch with co-workers, family and friends\u00a0as he posed for photos amid golden balloons in the shape of the number 36.<\/p>\n
Marchese informed the borough of his intent to retire last month, Mayor Max Conway said. Police Capt. Richard Barth was named acting police chief following several interviews, Conway said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll be conducting a wider search over the next couple months,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Long, valued career<\/p>\n
Marchese became acting chief in February 2013 after Police Chief Patrick Reese resigned, according to Times-Tribune archives. He rose through the department\u2019s ranks from patrolman to sergeant and became a captain prior to his appointment. In March 2013, borough council unanimously voted him into the permanent position.<\/p>\n
The borough was fortunate to have a chief in place for decades, Conway said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s been a lot of continuity. He knew the people and places of the town so well,\u201d Conway said. \u201cThe borough thanks him for his commitment, and his retirement is well deserved. It\u2019s not an easy job.\u201d<\/p>\n
A post announcing Marchese\u2019s retirement on the department\u2019s Facebook page received more than 100 congratulatory messages expressing gratitude for his service and wishing him well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dunmore Police Chief Sal Marchese retired this week, concluding a 36-year career at the department that included 13…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2136,201,182,139,28,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-181645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-dunmore","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}