Ashland firm seeks liquor license for ex-Mulligan’s bar
SHENANDOAH – A downtown establishment is changing hands, again.
At Monday night’s meeting, Borough Council again approved the transfer of a liquor license from the former Sarge’s Soups and Sandwiches in Pottsville to Mulligan’s Pub on South Main Street.
If this sounds familiar, council took the same action at their July meeting.
“We were here last July for the exact same resolution, but with a different purchaser,” David Bargeron, an attorney with Corker and Almonti, told borough council. “That purchaser of the license backed out and we have a new purchaser.”
Bitter and Twisted, LLC, of Ashland, is the new purchaser. The firm lists Dawn Kehler as a principal in Pennsylvania Department of State documents.
Bargeron said the location will be operated primarily as a restaurant rather than as a bar as Mulligan’s had been operated.
“I think the plan here is to make it more of a restaurant, less of a bar,” he said.
“There is a history down there as everyone on council knows,” Council President Joe Boris told Bargeron, referring to the rocky history of the location.
“That’s why we’re heading more towards a restaurant, less of a bar,” Bargeron said. “It’s not going to be a place to go drink, it’s going to be a place you can get a meal and have a beer with your meal, not a group of people sitting at a bar all night long causing problems.”
Council approved a resolution blessing the license transfer, which is currently pending before the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board.
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