: te Io Vol. 109 No. 8 Dallas, Pennsylvania SERVING THE (OI@1\V\VISINIREI=ISH® |i I oo | =S BVA Bf Ba ROf¥ LAKE-LEHMAN S105 [010] 5B] ISH } 21 [OF BS) February 25 thru March 3, 1998 * Lake-Lehman board still may take vote on Price contract By KYLIE SHAFFERKOETTER Post Staff LEHMAN - Moderno Rossi would like the Lake-Lehman school board and Dr. William Price to forget the past and look to the future for the students. The new school board member would like the opportunity to vote on and for a five-year renewal of Price’s con- tractas superintendent of schools. But, some board members feel out him. “I always backed him,” said Rossi. “Iread the contract and it’s a good contract. I just want to change the part that says he would get a raise from ‘time to time.’ I want to add to that, ‘with board approval.’ The contract was the sarhe as the one the board agreed to four years ago. It mentioned there would be raises but did not say to people realize the kind of dynan mo we go! for the bucks.” Karen Whipple Soheol board member district’s superintendent for three years, abruptly gave his resigna- tion at a regular board meeting earlier this month. In the midst of an unruly meeting with audience members speaking out of turn he shocked everyone with his an- nouncement. “It was a rough meeting right from the beginning with the audi- ence involvement,” said Rossi. “I think he got frustrated and felt what degree. Price, who has been the questioning his pay and contract, enough is enough.” the district will be better off with- Some board members did not want to vote on the issue because Lois Kopcha, board president, was not present when the item was placed on the agenda, a board regulation. Also, board members were notified only the Saturday "before their Monday meeting. Many felt that was too little time to make a decision. : Ron Payne said all he wanted to do was table the vote for one month. “If he wouldn't have been stubborn, he would've been vote in (the next month),” said Payne. *® Creek runs underneath parking lot in plan for new store | DALLAS - A proposal to build a 1! new Rite Aid pharmacy at the y intersection of Routes 309 and r 415 has cleared its first hurdle. But it may be several months ’ before construction can begin, y because the plan would require that a section of Toby's Creek be 3 run underground and rerouted. d The new store would be on A about two acres of land owned by : Jonathan Valentine and now oc- cupied by KW Carpet, between Pizza Hut and the 309-415 Plaza. The land has frontage on Rt. 415, ) and extends across Toby’s Creek and steeply up to Main Street. Pasonick Engineers of Wilkes- Barre is developing the plan for Rite Aid, and presented it at a recent special meeting of the Dal- las Borough Planning Commis- sion. It requires that a 5,000 square foot section of land behind the 309-415 Plaza, which would be used to add parking, be re- zoned from residential to busi- | ness use. Documents presented to the zoning board indicate Rite Aid intends'tobuildan 11,180 square foot store on the property, includ- ing a drive- sihrough canopy at the rear. The company is also request- ing that parking spaces be re- duced from 10’ by 20’, as required by zoning ordinance, to 9’ by 18". A representative of Pasonick En- gineers said that is the size used for shopping centers in the Allen- town area. The proposed change in the zoning map will probably be dis- cussed at the next meeting of Dallas Borough Council, which will take place Tuesday, March 17 at 8 p.m. It is expected to gain approval. The most critical aspect of the plan is a proposal to run Toby's Eye-ing the art Under the watchful eye of a photograph of Suzanne Maria Rosetti,Kevin Rowland, Beaumont, hung a painting for the 17th annual Suzanne Maria Rosetti Memorial Juried Art Show, which will open March 1 at the McDonald Art Gallery at College a9 Misericordia. Judges selected 320 of more than 900 entries that were submitted. Entries were accepted from 7th to 12th grade students in the Dallas, Lake-Lehman, Tunkhannock and Northwest school districts. Story, more photos on page 3. POST PHOTO/CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK ’ See RITE AID, pg 8 Township Phinacrseonsides tower regulations the towers. “If the tower is 150 ft. high, then it would have to be on a parcel 175 {t. by 175 ft. so it wouldn't fall on anyone,” said Price. He said the commission definitely wants towers to be removed after they are no longer in use. “We want to make sure there are means in place to assure it will be removed,” Price said. “What if the company goes bust and a tower was built on private land? We would probably hold the landowner respon- sible. Another option would be to ask - the cellular company to put up a bond and renew it every year.” : Also there is the issue of how to hide the tower and make it more esthetically pleasing. “We'd like to get the towers camouflaged. The law limits what we See TOWERS, pg 8 BACK MOUNTAIN - As cellular phones become more common, so must cellular towers. Some local planning commission- ers are taking a close look at these struc- tures and the regulations that go along with them, hoping to avert a landscape dominated by metal “sticks,” as one com- missioner calls them. The Kingston Township Planning Com- mission has started to discuss policies that might be added to the zoning ordi- nance regarding cellular towers, Cur- rently there are no regulations in the township’s ordinance Specially concern- ing cellular towers. Ed Price Jr. said the commissioners discussed tower height in relation to the land on which it is built, construction and removal, and screening or camouflaging Two towers. At left, a photo of a tower near the intersection of the Northeast Extenions and 1-76, disguised as a pine tree. At right, a new tower in Kingston Township, behind Rider's World. Payne believes Price resigned because he lost control of the board. “He said members of the board lost confidence in him, but that's not true. He lost control and power over the board,” said Payne. “The school board is the em- ployer. For so long every school board kowtowed every adminis- tration in this valley. The school board is in charge of hiring, the board is boss,” Payne said. See LAKE-LEMAN, pg 8 Borough employees get raises By MEIRA ZUCKER Post Correspondent HARVEYS LAKE - The bor- ough council voted unanimously at the Feb. 17 meeting to give borough employees raises of up to 19 percent. Council members said the increases were necessary to bring borough employees’ pay in line with the rates in other towns. Police chief Jeff Butler will now be paid an annual salary of $25,000; borough secretary Carole Samson's pay rate in- creased from $9.25 per hour to $10.25; road supervisor Charlie Musial goes to $8.76 per hour; Norman Steidinger, road laborer, will be paid $7.45 per hour, up from $6.44; and road worker David McRoy’s rate goes from $5.41 to $6.45 per hour. The borough has received a $5,000 grant, Francis Kopko, bor- ough council president, reported. Designated for use by the police department, the money was dis- tributed through Rep. George Hasay's office. The borough hopes to use the money for new portable radios. “We need good quality ra- dios due 'to the terrain here,” Kopko said. The council again heard a com- plaint from Wayne Smith regard- ing the new borough maps that identify certain roads under new names. He said he has received a “vicious and threatening phone call” about the name change of Briarcrest Road to Boyle Road.- Martin Noon, council president, replied that the road begins in’ Lehman Township, where it is called Boyle Road. “The police consider it Boyle,” said Noon. “The streets department calls it Boyle.” The new 911 system has re- quired the change, argued Noon, and several road names in Harveys Lake had to change so there would be no duplication of street names. “We can’t go back,” said Noon. In additional business, the council voted to appoint Jim DeGeorge as Acting Zoning Of- ficer, replacing Fred Javer, who resigned in January. HM Dishing it out Dallas Gridiron Club holds spaghetti dinner fund raiser. 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