is Dallas, Pennsylvania The Back Mountain's Newspaper Since 1889 September 26 to October 4, 2003 CALENDAR Paintings b y Angelique Prevost at King’s. Pg 16. SCHOOL Dallas High School band sports new uniforms. Pg 12. SPORTS Mountaineers bounce back strong. Pg 9. Harveys Lake makes progress on sewage By ERIN YOUNGMAN Post Staff HARVEYS LAKE Countless urs of round-the-clock work and a enerous outlay of cash have nearly eliminated the problem of raw sewage spewing out of manholes around the lake. Rick Boice, Manager of the Harveys Lake Municipal Authority, said inflow and infiltration studies have identified 200,000 gallons of storm water enter- ing the sewer lines. Some repairs still need to be made, but other corrections have already paid dividends. Jay Niskey, who owns property next to the authority and who has been out- spoken about the problem of overflow- ing sewers, and Mark Sobeck, presi- dent of the Harveys Lake Protective Association, agree that great strides “It's coming along, but it’s slow and expensive.” Rick Boice Manager Harveys Lake Municipal Authority have been made in resolving the over- flow problem. “We haven't had an outflow,” said Niskey. “Borton Lawson (Engineer- ing) has really put forth an effort as well as the (Harveys Lake) Municipal Authority. I think we're seeing the re- sult of that with not having any over- flows.” In June, the Department of Environ- mental Protection (DEP) cited Har- veys Lake with two Notices of Viola- tion for breaking the Pennsylvania Lehman junior to be featured on MTV The Lake-Lehman Theater is poised to present their next produc- tion, “Making Nice,” in conjunction with the MTV program “Made.” Lake-Lehman junior Angie Nice was chosen for an episode of the EERE RR MTV series ‘Making Nice’ uring audi- Friday, Oct. 3 tions held at Saturday, Oct. 4 the school last 7:30 p.m. each night spring. Later, Walsh Auditorium the network College Misericor- contacted dia Lake-Lehman, Call 675-7458, ext. Sing, “wed : 3 like her to be 4504 for information d ad lick: in some sort of and advance tickets production,” said Jonathan Pineno, the director. He chose five possible plays, any one of which were appropriate, he said. The episode is scheduled for broad- cast Saturday, October 11 at 12 noon. The one-act comedy written by Alan Haehnel features Nice as Claire, Craig Thomas as Bob, Chelsea Mac- Dougall as Ellen, Jill Priebe as Hetty, Steven Lunderman as Marly, Joe DeCesaris as Stewart, Jake Davies as Jason and a host of other colorful characters that make the stage come alive. See MTV, pg 8 Craig Thomas, playing the director in “Making Nice,” explodes at the title character, Angie Nice, in re- hearsal Tuesday night. The Lake-Lehman play will be presented at College Misericordia because the school auditorium is being renovated. POST PHOTO/CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK Insurance, planning cited by business wary of trail By ERIN YOUNGMAN Post Staff TRUCKSVILLE — Railroad bed owned by Newell Fuel has been pin- pointed as pivotal to the completion of the Back Mountain Trail. But Russ Newell Jr. said this week he’s been ad- vised by attorneys not to provide right-of-way for the trail. Newell, part owner of the business located at 108 South Memorial High- way, said although initially excited about the rails to trails idea, he’s not so enthusiastic now. Newell said he wants to see more insurance and more specific planning. “Initially I thought it was a good Isabel pays a visit POST PHOTO/ERIN YOUNGMAN Tropical storm Isabel roared through the Back Mountain Thursday night ai*d Friday of last week, bringin out power in some areas. This willow g down limbs, trees and knocking tree in the Meadows section of Newberry Estate, Dallas, came down Thursday evening around mid- night, said neighbors. It took out a wh ite pickup on its way. idea. But after doing further research, I found it may not be in our best inter- est,” he said. Newell said the main issue is liabili- ty. He said the Back Mountain Trail currently carries $1 million in insur- ance. That is insufficient, he contends. “What if some kid from Wilkes- Barre falls off his bike and lands be- hind our building?” Newell thinks the bare minimum amount of insurance the trail associa- tion should have is $5 million. “Then we might be able to start talking,” he said. Judy Rimple, President of An- See TRAIL, pg 8 3 Lake-Lehman schools removed from warning list By ERIN YOUNGMAN Post Staff LEHMAN TWP. — Because of a change in the way the Pennsylvania De- partment of Education assesses atten- dance numbers, three schools in the Lake-Lehman School District have been removed from the warning list they were placed on just weeks ago. The Lehman-Jackson, Ross and Lake- Noxen elementaries have been taken off the Pennsylvania Accountability System warning list because under the new sys- tem, their attendance numbers round to the required 95 percent, said Shanna McClintock, spokesperson for the De- partment of Education. McClintock said schools were noti- fied about the change earlier this month. However, as of last Monday, ad- ministrators at Lake-Lehman had not heard the news. Dave McLaughlin- Smith, Lake -Lehman curriculum direc- tor, reacted happily to the news. “No, I hadn't heard that. I'm glad they've rounded them up,” he said. All of Lake-Lehman’s schools had been placed on the warning list for not adhering to Annual Yearly Progress (AYP) standards in line with the Feder- al No Child Left Behind law (NCLB). The standard requires that atten- dance, participation and graduation rates at all schools is be 95 percent, or trending upward to reach that goal by 2014. The middle school and the dis- trict’s three elementaries had been placed on the warning list for slipping in their attendance, while the high school was placed on the list for failing to meet the 95 percent graduation re- quirement. McClintock said percentages are now rounded to the nearest whole number. Previously, they were rounded to the See SCHOOLS, pg 2 overflows Clean Streams Law. Around that time, the borough ap- pointed the Borton Lawson firm to evaluate and help solve the overflow problem. Boice said to date, over $50,000 has been spent finding where surface wa- ter is entering into the sewer lines — the most likely cause of the overflows. See OVERFLOWS, pg 2 Changes for the Post Beginning with the first issue in Oc- tober, The Dallas Post will be deliv- ered in a different manner, on a differ- ent day. The content and presentation of Back Mountain news will not dimin- ish, but in fact will be enhanced. The Post will be delivered to sub- scribers in the core Back Mountain area with the Sunday Times Leader. Subscribers who do not take the Times Leader on Sunday will now re- ceive it at no additional cost with their Dallas Post subscription. Outside of that area, the Post will continue to be delivered separately by mail, arriving on Mondays. Copies will also be available at local newsstands on Mondays. The first issue on the new schedule will be delivered October 5. There will not be a paper on Friday, October 3. For advertisers, the change will mean an immediate doubling of circu- lation, with home delivery on the best readership day of the week. The offices of The Dallas Post also have changed. The office at 607 Main Road in Dallas will close this week, and operations are moving to the Times Leader building in Wilkes Barre. The main phone and fax num- bers, and e-mail address, will not change. Mail sent to our Dallas ad- dress will be forwarded for up to one year. But please make changes on your records now to avoid delays in your material reaching us. Please clip out the information be- low and save it as a reference for con- tacting us. 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