an, Dallas has four open
The following property transfers
were recorded recently at the
Luzerne County Courthouse.
Davis, Rose A. estate to
Orf, Thomas et ux, Lot 46+,
Gross Manor, Dallas, $126,000
Dexter, Edward et ux to Pianter,
Mark A., Lot 16B Highland
Blvd., Dallas, $206,185
Post, Robert Sr. trustee, to
Mitchell, Cynthia Post, Lots 2, 3
Post Plot, Dallas, $305,000
Empfield, Jeffrey et ux to
Weaver, Gary et ux, Lot 18
Haddonfield Hills, Dallas,
$159,000
Coolbaugh, Russell et ux to
Lewis,David et ux, Lot 2, Dallas,
$89,000
Lombardo, Joseph et ux to Hal-
bing, John E. Ill, 86 acres, Dal-
las, $325,000
Sharpe Development Corpora-
tion to Heritage Hills Estates,
Lots 27-32 Bluff Pointe, Dallas,
$72,000
Marina Commons at Harveys
Lake to Mattucci, James Jr., Lot
31 Marina Pointe, Harveys :
Lake, $198,435
Richards, John et ux to Aguar-
no, Salvatore et ux, Lots
23/25,27, Harveys Lake,
$89,500
Harding, Joseph Jr.et ux to
Meier, Bernhard et ux, Lot
35,36 Northview, Harveys Lake,
$1 55, 000
Marina Commons at Harveys
Lake to Mattucci, Rick J., Lot 22
Marina Pointe, Harveys Lake,
$204,509
Montigney, Martin et ux to Ag-
new, Gwen, Old Lehman Rd.,
Lehman, $01, 000
Lacey, Mark et ux to Onzik,
Mary Jean, Lot 2, Lehman,
$5,500
Niezgoda, Beulah to Niezgoda,
John et ux, 1.22 acres,
Lehman, $135,000
Shaver, Alan et ux to Curcio,
Robert et ux, 107 Harris Hill
Rd., Shavertown, $95,000
Gavlick, Kelli to Mackesy, Blake
et ux, 217 Blueberry Hill Rd.,
Shavertown, $245,000
Honeychurch, Richard J. to
Hixon, Richard et ux, Lot 25
Sleepy Hollow, Shavertown,
$256,400
Puchalsky, William et to Reese,
Edward M., 397 Greenpond Dr,
Shavertown, $126,000
Hann, Barbara et al to Hizynski,
Richard, 184 Ferguson Ave.,
Shavertown, $73,000
Friedman, Robert et ux to
Goodwin, Curtis et ux, 9.71
acres, Lot Shavertown,
$82,500
Farrell, James F. estate to CLR
Holdings, LLC, see deed,
Shavertown, $115,000
Halbing, John et ux to Liss,
Arthur et ux, Lot 24 Windsor
Farms, Shavertown, $550,000
Goyne, Eric et ux to Zawatski,
Edward J., Lot 2, Sweet Valley,
$125,000
Dibuo, Frank et ux to Petherick,
Michael et ux, 9.86 acres,
Sweet Valley, $140,000
POST PHOTO/RON BARTIZEK
Robert Sarley stood outside the bay doors of the Trucksville Volunteer Fire Company. One of
the concerns about the present station is the difficulty of getting in and out through heavy
traffic at the intersection of Carverton Road and Route 309.
Fire company
(continued from page 1)
present building’s longevity
and availability. Built in 1964 as
the township office, it is show-
ing ominous signs of age, in-
cluding widening cracks in the
cinder block wall that faces
Toby’s Creek.
The township supervisors
have discussed several needed
repairs, but have been ham-
strung from making them by a
budget crunch. And it's possi-
ble that in the long run, they
could decide to sell the build-
ing rather than continue main-
taining it.
“Either way, we have to try to
shore that building up,” said
Chris Yankovich, who is both
president of the supervisors
and treasurer of the fire compa-
ny. “We want to protect our fi-
nancial interest in the build-
ing.”
While they worry about the
future, fire company personnel
“It would be nice
to be on top of the
hill.”
Robert Sarley
President
Trucksville Vol. Fire Co.
are not complaining about the
township’s treatment. “It’s not
like they don’t take care of us,”
said member Lawrence Long,
pointing out a $12,000 annual
township contribution to the
department.
Sarley is hoping to find at
least two acres, with easy ac-
cess to Carverton Road. “But if
somebody had a larger parcel,
that would be better yet,” he
said, since that would allow for
future relocation of the station.
“It would be nice to be on top
of the hill,” Sarley said, since
much of the company’s cover-
age area is residential neighbor-
hoods that now require a long
climb up Carverton.
Ideally, the land would be a
donation, and the donor would
qualify for a tax deduction,
since the company is set up as
a 501-C-3 nonprofit. A local
banker has pledged to do what-
ever he can to secure a loan for
a purchase or construction of a
hall.
- Trucksville Fire shares cover-
age of Kingston Township with
Shavertown Volunteer Fire and
Ambulance, with a dividing
line on Route 309 just below
the former Rave’s Garden Cen-
ter. ‘All the developments off
Carverton Road are in the
Trucksville area, giving the
company hundreds of homes to
cover. The two departments co-
operate on structures fire any-
where in the township.
Free legal services offered for Reservists
As National Guard and Re-
serve units are called up to
serve the Armed Forces of the
United States, the Military Af-
fairs Committee of the Wilkes-
Barre Law and Library Associa-
tion/Luzerne County Bar is
available to provide legal servic-
es where needed.
~ The pro bono service in-
cludes preparation of wills for
soldiers, sailors and airmen.
The service is also available to
assist these individuals and
their families with problems re-
lated to their call to active duty,
and legal affairs which may re-
quire their attention during
their “ral absence from
home.
The committee is also avail-
able to assist lawyers in the
management of their legal cas-
es during their cell to active
duty.
For
6712.
information call 822-
History
(continued from page 1)
las was then in the bottom of
a two-story building where CVS
now is that also housed the
electric company.
Jim Oliver had the first used
car lot, where the borough
building stands, and Dr. Henry
Laing had a house where Citi-
zens Bank is. The pharmacy,
owned by Gus Kuehn, was then
on the eastern side of Main
Street. Thomas remembers
when the building was moved.
“Schiber, the house mover,
came in to move the building
across the street, and I couldn’t
believe that they could move a
were built in Chase or at the
Huntsville dam. The people
would walk to Trucksville and
then to Luzerne. He also says
that his grandfather helped
build Huntsville dam and felt it
would never break because it
took nine or 10 horses to move
one of the stones into place.
George Lamoreaux owned
much of the land around the
dam, as did the Edwards family.
His grandfather also told him
of the “Molly McGuires,” who
he thought were “pretty bad ac-
tors,” They came one night and
pulled his grandfather out of
high to have a five-foot-wide
stump.”
He points to the hand hewn
60-foot white pine rafters in his
barn, also as evidence that an-
cient forests once covered the
area.
“These rafters are from the
Warden Farm barn. It stood
where the Payne Printery build-
ing is. There’s no sawmill in the
country today could cut beams
this big,” he offers. The pro-
duce shack was built in 1987
from remnants of the Warden
barn,
With all the development,
Sweet Valley are the best in the
world. I've had produce people
tell me this,” he says.
But the best story, according
to Thomas, is from 1940 when
someone told him about some-
thing called a “produce stand.”
“I had never heard of such a
thing, so me and the Waters
brothers put out two crates and
a half-inch board with produce.
We sold it all,” says Thomas.
And he’s been selling it ever
since.
positions left to fill
448 applications
for 22 open jobs
Staff report
DALLAS TWP. — Eighteen
down, four to go. That’s the
standings for open positions in
the Dallas School District, after
nine were filled at a June 29
special meeting.
Among the new hires were
two teachers and a technology
coordinator with ties to former
district administrators or the
current school board president.
The board also passed a 15-
mill tax hike. The vote was 6-1,
with one absent and one ab-
stention for the $23.69 million
spending plan. The total mill
age stands at 213, an increase
of 7.6 percent.
Board member Frank Natitus
voted against the budget and
Dennis Gochoel was absent.
Newly appointed board mem-
ber Daniel Nulton abstained.
The list of teachers present-
ed for hiring included Karen
Gibson, a former student
teacher for board President
David Usavage. She was hired
as a fifth- grade teacher at
Wyrcallis Elementary at a salary
of $30,678. She spent 16 weeks
in Usavage’s first-grade class-
room in the Wyoming Valley
West School District. /
After the meeting, Usavage
called Gibson “an outstanding
teacher” and defended her hir-
ing, stating, “If anybody thinks
that 16 weeks in the classroom
doesn’t serve the board and the
district better than a 15-minute
interview, I'd like to talk to
them.”
Board members Maureen
Matiska and James Richardson
voted against hiring - Gibson.
Nulton abstained.
Two children of former dis-
trict administrators also were
hired.
Samuel Barbose, son of re-
tired principal Sam Barbose,
was hired to fee sixth grade
at the Dallas Middle School at
a salary of $35,274. Kyle Wega,
son of retired technology coor-
dinator Jack Wega, was given a
four-year contract as director of
technology at a base salary of
$45,000.
Neither appointment was op-
posed; Nulton abstained from
all hiring votes.
Susan Williams, secretary to
Assistant Superintendent
Michael Speziale, said the dis
trict received 488 applications
for 22 full-time positions. That
included expressions of contin-
uing interest from prior appli-
cants.
All persons interested in be-
ing hired must notify the dis-
trict of their interest within a
10-day window from the date
an opening is posted and adver-
wametionbecause the admini
AT WHER" Usavage
\
tised.
Williams said four positions
remain to be filled: two high
school special education teach-
ers; a combination ESL and
gifted elementary position, and
a developmental first grade
teacher.
Audience members atch
Nulton’s recent appointment to
the board. Several parengs
questioned why the board held
the appointment at the end of
the June 14 meeting. n
Pam Oliveira told Usavage
the action made the public in
the audience at the time feél
that the matter was not gojs
to be acted on at the mee
and some people left. \
Usavage said the vote was
moved “to where it should he
placed, at the end of the meet-
ing,” and added that “there was
no malicious intent.”
Parents also questioned Us-
avage and the board about the
distribution of the duties of the
assistant superintendent, who
is on sabbatical, and the re-
placement of the assistant mid-
dle school principal. Usavage
said that neither issue has been
decided yet, but parents said
they were worried that the
board would not act in the
interest of the students. i
Calling it a matter of trust,
Kathleen Savage, mother of
two children at the high school
told the board, “I honestly feél
you are not considering the
children and that's why I don't
trust you.”
Before the board voted on
the hiring of teachers, Mati
made a motion to allow dist:
administrators to have an eq
vote with board members on
the hiring of teachers. The mx
tion was defeated with onl; ly
Matiska and Richardson voting
in favor of it and Nulton ab-
staining. i:
Matiska said she made
who is hited as teachers.
why she didn’t express er n-
cerns in the executive session
in back.” ii
Also hired at Tuesday's eet:
ing were: Anthony Prushinski,
sixth grade Dallas Middle
School, $35,537 a year; Kelly
Whalen, reading specialist Dal-
las Middle School, $34,328;
Brenda Skoronski, fifth grade
Dallas Elementary, $35,274;
Courtney Stolarski, long term
substitute teacher Wycallis Ele-
mentary and MaryKate Mad-
den, long term substitute Eng-
lish teacher Dallas Middle
School, each at $30,678; and
Tina Marianacci, school psy-
chologist, $39,438. ha
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