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East Allen Cameron Chuss Earns prestigious Township appoints New supervisor Eagle Scout award By JUSTIN SWEITZER East Allen Township supervisors appointed a new supervisor at their March 8 meeting to replace the vacancy left by former board member Christopher Colitas, who resigned from the board in February. After interviewing eight candidates, the board nominated and elected township resident Robert Mills to serve the remainder of Colitas’ term, which expires Dec. 31. Supervisor Madelyn Kemp made the motion to nominate Mills, with all voting in favor except for Supervisor Peggy Moser. Mills was not in attendance to witness his appointment, but
submitted by EVAN CHUSS On December 30, 2016, Cameron Chuss of Moore Township received his Eagle Scout designation at a Court of Honor conducted at the Salem UCC of Moorestown. Friends, family, troop members, scout leaders and dignitaries attended the celebration, including his parents Donna and James Chuss. Cameron, age 16, is a sophomore at Northampton Area High School and a member of Troop 50 of the Minsi Trails Council, Boy Scouts of America, led by James Chuss, Scoutmaster, and Charlie Bluder, Committee Chairman. During his ten years of scouting, he has completed National Youth
Leadership Training, is a member of the Order of the Arrow and has held various troop leadership positions including senior patrol leader. Cameron’s Eagle Scout project was making renovations and upgrades at the Sayre Child Center in Bethlehem. Some of the renovations included painting a stairwell and lower lobby area, stripping and waxing floors, building a picnic table made from recycled materials, building an educational garden and planter boxes, mulching, replacing a bifold door, making a sign to aid in enrollment and repairing a broken shelf. Cameron’s crew completContinued on page 5
board members praised his performance during the interview process. “I was looking for someone who knows the township, who knows the issues,” said Kemp. Chairman Roger Unangst said Mills was a particularly noticeable candidate due to his strong interview performance. “In my opinion, he stuck out,” Unangst said. “He was very definitive in his answers.” Unangst and the rest of the board were complimentary of the other applicants, and urged them to consider other vacancies
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By KERI LINDENMUTH On Wednesday, March 8, Bob Dwyer of Land Trust Properties gave the Northampton Borough Planning Commission and area residents a presentation on plans for preserving Willow Brook Farms in the wake of surrounding development by both FedEx and The Rockefeller Group. Dwyer hopes the master plan he presented before the commission will keep the industrial activity from moving closer to the nineteenth century farm that shares property in Northampton, Allen Township and North Catasauqua. Dwyer envisions the farm
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as a place that can be preserved so that the “entire region could come here to work [and] shop.” The master plan includes apartments, townhomes and single-family homes surrounding the farm and its valley. The farm’s many buildings would be repurposed and used as shops and restaurants, all connected by walking paths and trails, shaded by the property’s trees. The property also includes a 9-hole golf course and plans for connecting the Nor-Bath and D & L Trails. There are many other pieces of the historic farm that will be in-
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