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OCTOBER 19-25, 2017
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Northampton Area Konkrete Lehigh Township Kids Education Foundation Explores revoking Funds “Romeo and Juliet” Plan for Turkey Hill
Submitted by BILL CONNER The Northampton Area Konkrete Kids Foundation is proud to announce that it recently funded a production of "Romeo and Juliet" at the Northampton Area High School. Over 500 ninth grade
students attended the performance produced by the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. The production was brought to Northampton through the efforts of English teachers Rebecca Lorah and Alison Kowalick. The students are currently reading
Looking by Back Ed Pany Remembering December 1941
In this continuing series, we take you back to life in 1941. As a result of the Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, our local communities organized local defense agencies. At the Fred A. Snyder 353 American Legion, home air defense arrangements were approved for Northampton. There were many residents who
the play as part of the ninth grade curriculum and they were delighted to see it performed live. The Foundation is dedicated to bringing these types of experiences to the students of the Northampton Area School District. volunteered their services for the defense program. The Borough was divided into wards with George Cole first, Russel Bilheimer second, Arthur Miller third, and William Clewell fourth. The school district rules stated that all elementary students and junior and senior high school students who could reach home within five minutes would do so when an alarm sounded. Residents in the vicinity of the Continued on page 3
By JUSTIN SWEITZER With frustration mounting in Lehigh Township over the stalled development of a Turkey Hill, supervisors are putting pressure on developers to act, or the township will revoke the project’s conditional approval, supervisors announced at their Oct. 10 board of supervisors meeting. After months of inactivity from Turkey Hill and its developers, township supervisors made a motion to authorize Township Solicitor David Backenstoe to send a letter to all parties stating that if the township doesn’t received a signed roadway improvements agreement, a letter of credit and clarification about a liquor license, the township will take steps to revoke the project’s conditional approval, essentially ending the project. The parties behind the Turkey Hill project will have until the board’s Oct. 24 meeting to get the materials to the township. The lack of action on the Turkey Hill project has been a cause of frustration among both township officials and community members, as the project would bring major roadway improvements to the Cherryville intersection, something that the township has been highly supportive of. Supervisor Cynthia Miller said in hindsight she regrets passing the plan and would not have passed it if she could have foreseen the delay and inaction. “I think it’s a bad plan. Now, I regret that I passed it,” Miller said. “I don’t think it’s a great plan and I wouldn’t approve it the
way it stands today.” Board of Supervisors Chairman Darryl Snover was even more blunt with his assessment of the project. Snover said he didn’t understand how Turkey Hill, which is owned by The Kroger Company, could apply for a liquor/restaurant license without being told that the property could support it. “It’s ludicrous to me,” he said. “I also said in the email [to township supervisors] that—and I’m going to use really blunt language which I generally don’t do but I’m so frustrated with this—all the parties involved need to get their s--t together, because this is ridiculous.” Representatives from Turkey Hill have never appeared before the township, according to the board. “You have an entity that’s applying for a liquor license for a site that can’t support it,” he said. “And we don’t even know what that entity’s thinking because nobody from there is coming to us either.” Snover said he, along with the rest of the board, has been trying to give developers behind the project multiple opportunities, but as frustration grows, the board’s patience is wearing thin. Continued on page 3
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