PASSE al Sl SG Sl 8 A SS SS Po res we oe a aE a » Vandalism: ~ (continued from page 1) Coyle acknowledged, but explained that new ownership wanted to . upgrade the system. Council members were reluc- tant to grant the company’s re- .- ~quest because while the company , - ‘ offered to restore thr portions of + pavement it damaged, it did not +, appear willing to repave the entire width of the street. Coyle said his plan was to in- stall the main near the center of the roadway, which would mean tearing up and repaving a two-foot . wide path about 1,200 feet long, - from Route 415 to just past Dallas . . Family Practice. Council member ~ Harold Brobst asked if the line .,eould be installed along the side of the road, but Coyle said too much . rock ledge would make that option difficult. When the council voted to table *“ "the request, Coyle explained that M 4 4 4 4 4 A 4 1 < 4 vw sew Le J SE SE Te BENE SE Te + . ‘ 2 v Ld C4 : . ’ 2 8 6 4 6 44% 48% 84 4 4a "SENET ECE EI FEI SEAS 0086s the project would probably have to be put off until next year. He asked that’ the council notify him in advance of future road work, since his company plans to replace sev- eral water lines over the next five years. Arecently-paved road may slow another resident's conversion to gas heal, as council members agreed that they did not want Franklin Street damaged to make the installation. og acs, 72 Franklin Street, a¥ked permission for Pennsylva- nia Gas & Water to cut the street in order to install a gas line to his home. The borough notified PG&W and other utilities in April what roads it ‘planned to pave, and also sends «notices toresidents when possible. Borough manager Milton Lutsey recommended that Adams’ request be denied. “I know he's not going to like that answer. To cut that new ‘pavement seems to be a shame,” Lutsey said. After some discussion, the coun- cilagreed that the gas line could be installed if the pavement cutting was limited to a three-foot square, . from which the line could be ' pushed under the street to the home. _~ At the conclusion of the meet- im¥ council president Donald ®per paid tribute to Charlot M. Denmon, the Dallas Post reporter who had covered Dallas Borough meetings for 20 years. “During my tenure on council, Mrs. Denmon . ' ‘was a tremendous help,” he said. “She was truly a credit to her pro- -fession. I miss her and I'm thank- ful for all she did for me and for this town.” : in other business, the council: © Appointed William Peiffer to ir police committee, and added _ councilman Jerry Machell to that committee. *» Scheduled an executive ses- Q. for October 24, to discuss the 1992 budget. » Resolved to refund $44.45 to Molly Durkin, Newberry Estate, for a tax overpayment. e Reminded residents that leaves will be picked up until snowfall. Leaves should placed at curbside in 33 gallon bags, which will be left after being emptied. Fre eae LGA: Reed Advantage At our new location ~ IGATEWAY SHOPPING CENTER 10% oFrai | 1 AE Merchandise | E At The Register with this coupon + expires 10/30/91 I NO OTHER DISCOUNTS APPLY NEW PHONE - 283- 1918 or L Having : a ‘buzzing good time The Westmoreland Elementary School held its first enrichment program for the school year on October 15. During the day-long program, Cliff Wright-Sunflower, a bee-keeper from Bath, Pennsyl- vania taught the elementary students that bees are critical to plant life on the planet, because they help spread plant pollen so plants can reproduce. The children also made bees wax candles. Shown from left are: standing, Ted Stark, 9, of Trucksville, wearing a bee- keeper's veil, Cliff Sunflower, and Brenda Karavitch, 10, of Trucksville, with a honeycomb. Jared Swire is kneeling with a smoker, which helps keep the bees from stinging. County turns down Lake Twp. supermarket By ERIC FOSTER Post Staff A-year-long quest by aTamaqua couple to build a supermarket in ‘Lake Township was grounded by the Luzerne County Commission- ers October 16 as they rejected a request for a zoning change on the advice of the Luzerne County Plan- ning Commission. Norma and Joseph Mazaika had been searching for over a year [or the right location to build the market. The spot they finally got an option to purchase contingent on the zoning change was at the intersection of Route 118 and a dirt road called Macri Road. The Mazaika's requested the area be rezoned from agricultural to a community business district, a request the planning commis- sion recommended against and the commissioners denied. “The need is there. There are no supermarkets, the main supermar- kets are in Dallas, Nanticoke and Benton,” said Norma Mazaika, who would have managed the market.. In doing her market research, Mazaika said that she found there were about 8,000 people living within a five-mile radius of the area, and the nearest supermar- kets were about 10 miles away in Dallas. “The area surrounding this area is zoned entirely agricultural,” said Adrian Merolli, director of the Luzerne County Planning Commis- sion. “It would be a classic case of spot-type zoning. We have tried to place commercial zones clustered at the Pikes Creek area..” “The other issue became public safety,” said Merolli. “The property is 400 feet below the crest of the hill and the Access to 118 would be very difficult. It was too danger- ous.” “The successrate in the Court of Common Pleas is not a very great percentage,” said the Mazaika's attorney, Angelo Terrana, “and I'm not trying to get my clients hopes up.” building. borough's zoning code. B-1 commercial district. build an addition to his home. Dallas Borough zoners to hear request for business in Machell Avenue home The Dallas Borough Zoning Board will hear three requests for variances at its meeting October 24 at 7:00 p.m. in the borough Carol Carroll, 368 Machell Avenue, has requested a variance to operate a business from her home uner Section 6.10 of the Earl Samuels, Memorial Highway, has asked for a variance to build an addition on an existing structure, which is located in a John J. 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He said those changes were made for educational reasons, and the changes were approved by the state's Department of Education when it approved the school's course boaklet. “I think at some point, keeping on adding ancillary programs and taking away from major subject areas had a negative impact,” said Wycallis, who also noted that in the past several years, Dallas's achievement test scores had been decreasing. Wyecallis would later list some art, music, home economics, and health as ancillary programs. Programs cut {rom the present school year include the in-school suspension program, a reduction in ninth grade physical education classes, and fewer health classes for grades seven through 10. Also cut was an administrative intern program which gave teachers an opportunily to work in adminis- trative jobs. Wycallis testified that cuts were made in programs such as physi- cal education and health where the district provided more instruc- tion than the Department of Edu- cation required. “I think that the bottom line is for the past five years the district has been operating with additional stall - more than we needed. Pro- grams were expanded to use those staff people.” “In some areas, we probably far exceeded our need in staff people. Don't get me wrong, there has been” an impact, but it has been a mini- mal impact,” said Wycallis. “Did the budget have anything to do with the furloughs?” asked Attorney Herring. “The budget as part of my mo- tive - no - because I'm very aware that it's not right to furlough for budgetary reasons,” replied Wycal- lis. However, Fred Templin, who retired as supervisor of curricu- lum and instruction last spring said he was surprised by the fur- loughs when he learned of them in July after returning from vacation. “I thought the retirements would be enough lo meet the budget,” said Templin. “In your opinion, why were those programs cut?” asked Herring. “Financial restraints l imagine,” replied Templin. Jones suggested that Templin would have had to imagine, be- cause he wasn't very involved in planning the curriculum. “Is il not [air to say that during the months of March, April and May, were you not preoccupied with your imminent retirement?” asked Jones, to which Templin replied “yes.” Templin also testified that he held animosity toward the school board because his last pay raise was less than what others received. Throughout the testimony, the two sides used very different ter- minology. Wycallis spoke of “pro- gram curtailment” - Attorney Her- ring of “stall cuts.” Herring attempted to link a survey published in The Dallas PostondJune 12 to the a budgetary motive for the district furloughing the teachers. Jones referred to the survey as a “coupon,” and pointed out that the board never officially voted to. approve it. The survey asked residents which of two proposals they would support, raising tax millage in the district by “22 mills (17%) to keep all existing educational and co- curricular programs?” Or raising tax millage “by 15 mills (11%) as was proposed in the tentative budget.” Wycallis said that the questions are exactly as he provided them to the Post, with the addition of the percentages. He denied however writing the sentence in the introduction to the questions which states: “The ten- tative budget calls for a 15 mill tax increase to 156 mills, which would require some cutbacks in person- nel and programs.” Wycallis testified that the dis- trict had a reserve of $266,501 in the final budget, which has grown to nearly halfa million dollars since the start of the school year. “The budgetary reserve has 5 sufficient funds to put those pro- ig grams back if deemed necessary,” said Wycallis. “Why didn't you?” asked Her- : : ring. those programs,” said Wycallis. “Do you feel the cuts were edu- cationally sound?” asked Herring. “Under the circumstances, yes,” replied Wycallis. “What circumstances’ are those?” Wycallis replied that the pro- grams exceeded state regulations. Attorney Robert Panowicz acted as hearing officer for the school board. When the hearing is com- plete, Panowicz, under the direc- tion of the school directors, will prepare a “finding of facts and conclusions of law” document, which will either uphold the teacher's furloughs, or find them unlawful. At a public meeting the board will vote to adopt the docu- ment. Panowicz said that the proc- ? ess would take about a month. If the school board upholds the furloughs, then the teachers may | “The board decided to curtail appeal to Luzerne County Court, while Ferko, whose hours were reduced, may appeal to the Secre- tary of Education. The hearing was expected to be 4 completed Tuesday evening, Octo- _ber 22. Route 309 - (continued from page 1) ton Road. e Installing a traffic light at Franklin Street in Shavertown. PennDOT's Bonacci said that a traffic study had shown that there wasn't enough traffic on Franklin Street to warrant a traffic light. “That's not fair, they all go to Center Street,” said Herbert Hill, a Kingston Township supervisor. Sabol was concerned because the extra traffic which might use Franklin Street if a signal were installed, uses Center Street instead, creating prob- lems for the nearby fire department in an emergency. Sabol also expressed concern about the difficulty emergency crews have in reaching an accident on northbound Route 309 near the rock cut, where vehicles might become sandwiched between the median barrier and the rock wall. Ben Franklin, another Kingston Township super- visor, suggested an acceleration lane off of Hillside Road to Route 309 southbound, and keeping trucks to the right on Route 309 northbound. Dallas Borough Police Chief John Fowler sug- gested restricted driveway access to 309. “I think our shopping center in Shavertown where they restricted the flow, ouraccidents are way down,” said Sabol after Fowler's suggestion. Don Cooper, president of the Dallas Borough Council, suggested a signal at Center Hill Road to slow down traffic. Frank Wagner had several suggestions including: » Adding median barriers from Mister Donut to Franklin Street. « Adding a right turn lane at 309 and Hildebrandt and Upper Demunds Road. has changed. ‘Wilkes-Barre. “If you could do a truck count now and a truck countamonth alter the Cross Valley opens thenwe'd have something to talk about,” said Ed Schechter. | The next meeting of the Transportation Associa- | tion will be December 4. at 7 p.m. at Penn State Community representatives at the meeting in- cluded: Supervisors Herbert Hill and Benjamin Franklin from Kingston Township; councilman Don Cooper from Dallas Borough; supervisor Frank Wagner from Dallas Township; Kingston Township Police Chief Paul Sabol; Dallas Borough Police ChiefJohn Fowler; Adrian Merolli, director of the Luzerne County Plan- ning Commission; Jim Brozena, Luzerne County Engineer; Al Babetski, Lehman Township Emer- gency Management Coordinator; Ed Schechter, chairman of the Back Mountain Citizens Council's transportation committee; and Back Mountain Citi- Valick. 550 Memorial Hwy. 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