Mahoning Township has accepted the retirement of a long-tenured police officer.

On a 4-0 vote, with one abstention, township supervisors on Wednesday accepted Amie Barclay’s retirement request, effective Nov. 1, 2022.

Supervisors Deb McGowan, who is Barclay’s mother, abstained from the vote.

Barclay was an officer in the township for 26 years.

A special fundraiser was held for Barclay in August 2022 at the Mahoning Valley Ambulance Association to help her with medical costs because of COVID.

In November 2021, Barclay said she came down with a sinus infection. The doctor did a COVID test, and it came back positive.

Barclay had developed a brain bleed and needed two brain surgeries. She said when she woke up, her left eye was way off to the left, which caused double vision.

A 1990 graduate of Lehighton Area High School, Barclay began her career in law enforcement at the Lehigh County Sheriff’s office in Allentown in 1994.

She began her job with the township’s police department in 1997.