The Washington County Chamber of Commerce held their annual Municipal Leaders Panel Discussion and managers from five municipalities offered their views on challenges and opportunities that are presented to each of their areas. Chartiers, North Strabane, South Strabane and Peters Townships along with the Borough of Charleroi all weighed in. Jodi Noble from Chartiers Township says that her district tries to make sure they manage residential development and maintain the rural nature of Chartiers. Jeff Ziegler from South Strabane Township said that their township is really concentrating on the recreational aspect of the township by managing park development and private recreation sources such as the Epi-Center that is slated to be built at Tanger Outlets. Industrial commerce was also discussed. Joe Manning from Charleroi discussed the ongoing difficulties his borough is facing with the impending closure of the Corelle glass plant and the efforts in trying to re-purpose that site. On the other hand, Chartiers’ Jodi Noble told of the recent purchase of a decade old Allegheny Ludlum brownfield in her township by Alumicore, LLC as a second site to recycle aluminum. All five municipalities spoke of how important recreation is to their districts and their plans to enhance and expand on already existing recreation areas.