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Nazareth Honor for Bath
County Soil Conservation Notes three violations
By BILL HALBFOERSTER The Home News
BATH HISTORICAL PRESERVATION award winners John and Margaret Scott (second and third from left), stand with Bath Mayor Donald Wunderler, State Representative Marcia Hahn, and Bath Council president Robert Fields at Nazareth Area Chamber of Commerce awards banquet on Saturday. (Story on Page 10.)
Supervisors, LTAA discuss Proposed rec center By BILL HALBFOERSTER The Home News
On Feb. 26, more than six pages of Lehigh Township Board of Supervisors minutes were devoted to a proposed community / recreation center that the Lehigh Township Athletic Association has had in the planning stage for several years, and is now getting closer to reality. At last Tuesday’s board meeting, Mike Cuchran brought an overlay of the building as it would be located on 3.5 acres of land in Delps Park, or in some minds
5 acres. He and the supervisors discussed a lease, parking, how the project might be financed, and who would maintain it. Cuchran, Rod Christman and Mike Druckenmiller were at the Feb. 26 meeting with the details of what LTAA has been planning since 2000. Their goal: a long-term home for young athletes, their families, and the community to participate in sporting events and life lessons. Since 2008, the concept has been that the building would provide great community benefits – not just
for the LTAA youth, but also for the adults and seniors of Lehigh Township, opening it up to community events, using the Northampton Recreation Center as a model of their planning. To date, LTAA has spent $70,000 in developing the plans. It was also pointed out last month that 350 children are participating in winter sports – 60 in wrestling, 110 in basketball, 30 in cheering, and 150 Continued on page 9
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At Thursday night’s meeting of the Allen Township Board of Supervisors, it was noted that the Northampton County Soil Conservation District cited violations found at three developments. They listed problems that needed to be dealt with at Hampton Ridge, Towpath Estates, and North Hill. Only the last one was represented at the meeting, and he said he is aggravated that the conservation district finds fault with what he is doing. He told the board that they are doing everything by the book, following DEP and EPA regulations, and have been required to put a 10-ft. berm on a retention pond. Supervisors Chairman Paul Balliet
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Activities cancelled after Gun scare in Northampton At approximately 4 p.m. on Wednesday, March 13, Northampton Area Schools Supt. Joseph Kovalchik received a call that two suspicious people were walking on 17th St. in the Borough of Northampton. This street is located near Siegfried Elementary School and Northampton High School. It was reported that one person had a bag. In that bag it appeared that a stock or handle of a gun was exposed. Grow UR Business...........5
All athletes, coaches and children on the playgrounds were moved indoors. Northampton Borough police and district police investigated the area and gave an “all clear.” As a precautionary measure, all activities at the high school, middle school and borough elementary schools were cancelled last Wednesday evening. All schools were open on Continued on page 7
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advised him to meet personally with the conservation district to discuss the issues. Meet State Police Supervisors Bruce Frack and Williams Holmes and Township Manager Ilene Eckhart recently met with the Pa. State Police of the Bethlehem Barracks, citing residents’ complaints of speeding cars, motorists ignoring stop signs, and disorderly conduct with ATV’s. They were told that the State Police unit has troopers on in two shifts who can deal with the problem. Allen and East Allen townships have had about 600 complaints the past year, including excessive fire alarms, and people speeding through stop signs,
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