NOVEMBER 21-27, 2013 Your Local News
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Taxes unchanged in 2014 Budget for Lehigh Township
By BILL HALBFOERSTER The Home News
Chiropractor collecting Items for Bath Food Bank
Dr. John Marino and his wife Cheryl at Marino Chiropractic Center, 364 S. Walnut St., Bath are doing a food drive for the Bath Area Food Bank. It’s their 16th year of collecting non-perishable food items that will be delivered to local families through the Bath Area Food Bank, lo-
cated at St. John’s Evan. Lutheran Church in Bath. People are invited to put food in the grocery cart that they have at the front of their office. It’s overflowing with canned and non-perishable foods and it’s been filled Continued on page 5
Bath Legion supporting Pa. Wounded Warriors
Submitted by Victoria Zmarzley-Hahn
Bath Legion veterans from Eckley E. Patch Post #470 held their own tournament at Whitetail Golf Course on Veterans Day with all proceeds benefiting the Wounded Warrior project. Galen Wuchter ran a raffle and collected $175.00 that will be sent to the Pennsylvania Wounded Warriors Division. Jason Glendenmoyer, a
Sons of the American Legion member, said he would shave his head if he received $500.00 in donations, with proceeds benefiting the Pa. Division of Wounded Warriors. The total amount collected was $1,015.00, resulting in Jason having his head shaved by Jason Eberts at the Bath Legion post home on Race Street. Larry Becker is having a Continued on page 5
The 2014 budget for Lehigh Township is being advertised for adoption, and residents will have at least 10 days to inspect it. Two members of the Board of Supervisors, Cynthia Miller and Sandra Hopkins, had numerous questions about the budget figures at their meeting last Tuesday, which were answered by Township Manager Alice Rehrig to their satisfaction. Supervisors Chairman Darryl Snover and Keith Hantz had their questions answered at the October 29 meeting and made no further comments
on Tuesday. The discussion last meeting took up 12 pages of the supervisors’ report. The $3,971,794 budget calls for no tax increase and it will remain at 15.2 mills for property owners. Slab Repairs Engineer Phil Malitsch reported on the concrete pavement along Washington Drive that had settled substantially. It is an existing concrete slab about 75 ft. long and has a vertical separation of approximately two inches, which has created a safety concern. Malitsch said reinforced concrete or blacktop could be used, but that the steel bars
in concrete would be more effective. There will be more discussion with Frank Zamadics of the road crew. Three contractors were sent letters about making repairs, and the prices ranged from $16,000 to $19,000, which Malitsch thought were too high. BMX Bike Trail Once again the BMX bike trail fashioned by township youths at Indian Trail Park in Pennsville came up for discussion from the audience, this time about insurance coverage. An insurance adjuster visited the site and made recommendations for betContinued on page 9
Allen board enacts ordinances, names Trash collector, hears 2014 budget By BILL HALBFOERSTER The Home News
Two ordinances were approved, a collector of municipal waste and recyclables was named, and the 2014 general fund budget was reviewed for adoption in December as the Allen Township Board of Supervisors met on Thursday night. Township Manager Ilene Eckhart reviewed the figures contained in the 2014 budget. While there are some changes, the budget will total $1,289,895 and there will be no increase in real estate taxes. They remain at five mills. The supervisors voted to advertise the budget available for public inspection for a period of 20 days from Thursday’s date of Nov. 14. Ordinances Okayed Two ordinances were approved. The first applies to wood-fired boilers and what can and cannot be burned.
After the explanation was given at a public hearing there was no public comment and the ordinance was adopted. The second ordinance is an amendment to the zoning ordinance on plantings, lot coverage, forests, building height and fences. It was recommended for approval by the Planning Commission, and the board adopted it at the hearing after a summary of the ordinance was given by solicitor Lincoln Treadwell. The changes noted are from 8 to 10 ft., no fence or wall in a sight triangle, lot coverage to a maximum, forests are woodlands under a conservation area, no more than 35 ft. in height of a building unless written approval is given by the airport authority. Here again there was no comment from the audience. The changes will be advertised. New Trash Collector J. P. Mascaro & Son is the
INDEX: Dr. Clearie......................4
Nazareth ......................10
Outdoors........................6
Obituaries ...................12
Northampton.................9
Classifieds ........... 13 & 14
present collector of municipal waste and recyclables, but the low bid of Advanced Disposal Services of the Lehigh Valley, Inc. was accepted for a five-year period beginning in April 2014 at a cost of $1,499,034. The supervisors set the following user rates for January through December 2014, in which property owners and renters are responsible for payment, directed to First National Bank of Palmerton (checks payable to Allen Township) either by mail or in person: Discount until Jan. 31, 2014, $290; Feb. 1 to 28, $300; March 1 to 31, $325. The senior discount if paid by Jan. 31, 2014 is $285. Senior discount is for individuals 65 and older. The resident must be age 65 by January 31 and must own and live in the home where waste or recyclables are colContinued on page 9
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