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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-
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ent day. The content and presentation
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