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FEBRUARY 23-MARCH 1, 2017
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Chapman School. My uncle split the slate and my father dressed them. I was hired when I was 17 years old. I carried water to wet the slate blocks so they could be cut. I also went to the hand pump across from the present borough hall filling buckets of water to quench the thirst of the quarry workers.” I asked him how much he was paid. He said, “At first I wasn’t paid anything. I was there to learn the quarry jobs. One day their foreman, Owen Jones, went to my dad and said he needed a ‘dresser,’ and to put me at the machine. I said with this new social security law I had to be 18 and I didn’t have a card. Owen said, ‘We will fix that, we will put your pay in your father’s pay envelope,’ and so he did. We worked on the piece rate. I needed plenty of experience to make money. Twenty-five dollars would be good money for five nine-hour
By KERI LINDENMUTH When local organizations hold a community event, Northampton Borough’s portable band shell is a popular addition to the celebration. Since 1998, the borough has rented it out so that concerts can be held and bands can perform for area residents at fairs, festivals and community days. With requests for rentals of the band shell rising, especially with the warmer weather of spring inching closer, the Northampton Borough Council worked to finalize guidelines and procedures for the band shell’s rental during its monthly meeting on Thursday, February 16. One issue that arose during the proceedings, however, was where profit from the band shell’s rentals can be donated. Some members of council, led by Councilman Robert McHale, advocated for donations to be made to the Northampton Area Food Bank. However, other members of council disagreed. Borough Manager LeRoy Brobst wanted to see profits donated somewhere else. “It is a little bit of overkill… the borough gave them [the food bank] the land they are built on.” Councilmen Anthony Lopsonzski, Sr., Anthony Lopsonzski, Jr., and Edward Pany were in agreement with Brobst. They
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Sara Dickey, Heart Walk director; Dawn Fernandez, Social Events director; Maeve O’Donnell; Susan Tindall, Maeve’s mom, and Mary Toole, a St. Luke’s patient care manager. Story on page 7. –Contributed photo
Looking by Back Ed Pany Third in a series- Clyde Roberts Remembers (Originally published in 2002)
This week, I continue my visit to the Borough of Chapman’s. Today, Clyde Roberts, a lifetime resident, shares his memories with our Home News readers. Mr. Roberts walked from his Main Street residence to the borough hall to meet me and undergo cross-examination. Clyde, a genial man, has a great memory of the “slate” village. His grandfather, father and Clyde all worked in Chapman’s
slate quarries. Clyde was born October 9, 1922. A neighbor midwife delivered him, like many of the youngsters there. Mr. Roberts attended the Chapman’s school for eight years (today the residence of the Dymond family). I asked him about his father. He replied, “My father William started at the quarry when he was 12 or 13. He left the school when he was in the sixth grade at the
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