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Penn Forest trail takes steps toward funding walking/hiking trail by Seth Isenberg A feasibility study for the Penn Forest walking/hiking trails proposal is priced at $39,500 by Barry Isett & Associates. The township has applied for a grant for $20,000, so at the April 1 supervisors’ meeting, it was decided to wait for the grant to be approved, then move forward with the study – which will lead to more grants. A CPR and AED training class for all the township staff was approved. It will be held on April 9, and taught by members of the Lehighton Ambulance. Penn Forest Park will get some upgraded lighting in its restrooms, and a new security camera on the upper pavilion. Sports teams are starting to use the park heavily. “The park is getting busy,” remarked chairman Roger Meckes. Shiffer Bituminous has been contracted to send its pothole patching truck through the township, twice, at $2,500 per load. The township crew will be out safety flagging when the truck is in the township, which will be early in the season.
Meckes reports that the township-wide roadside tree trimming work is nearly complete. Fire Police of Penn Forest were given permission to direct traffic at the St. Marks and St. John’s Race Street Run on June 29 in Jim Thorpe. Conditional approval of the Getz Self Storage business on Route 903 was given for waivers, and for a request to extend the timing of the land development plan review to July 1. Officers of Beltzville Lake Estates (BLE) thanked the township for reducing the speed limit on the township road to 25 mph in their development. The township is buying the speed limit signs. The development is seeking help in enforcing a clean-up and repairs at a home owned by a Slovakian man. He has no proper mailing address in the states. He is reported to owe school district taxes, and does owe dues to BLE. While the township has no say in all this, supervisors agreed to take a look. A suggestion was that BLE should hire a detective whose specialty is skipchasing.
Pocono Mountain Regional Police officers who rescued a woman from her burning vehicle off Route 940 were given a plaque and a challenge coin at the start of the March Kidder Township Supervisors’ meeting. The driver had crashed just over the county line in Kidder Township on February 26. PMRPD was dispatched and found the vehicle on fire. The honored officers were: (from left) CJ Dickinson (accepted by his dad, Chuck Dickinson), Scott Dunlap, Sergeant Robert Miller, presenter Lake Harmony Fire Chief Ralph Lennon, Carmine Saprona and Adam Bond, and presenter Kidder Township Police Chief Matthew Kuzma.
JP: Suzanne Winters
Kidder Township thanks, honors PMRPD officers for accident aid by Suzanne Winters & Seth Isenberg Another large crowd was on hand for the Kidder Township Board of Supervisors meeting on March 26. Many could not find a spot in the meeting room and remained standing in the foyer. Before beginning the meeting, a special award
presentation was made by Lake Harmony Fire Chief Ralph Lennon to the five Pocono Mountain Regional Police officers who, being first on the scene, had rescued a woman from her burning vehicle on February 26. She had crashed off Route 940 in Kidder Township, just past the county line. The officers were each given a
plaque. Challenge Coins were also presented from both the Fire Chief and the Kidder Township Police Chief Matthew Kuzma. The honored officers were Officer CJ Dickenson, Officer Scott Dunlap, Sergeant Robert Miller, Officer Carmine Saprona and Officer Adam Bond. The rescued woman is still recovering. See KIDDER, page 2