Saturday, May 11, 2013
The sinkholes returned, a digital billboard may now be brighter and trash changes all littered the landscape in Palmer-Forks this past week.
For Palmer Township residents, this past week was a tough one to swallow. Residents were getting used to a new trash collection system and others were complaining that problems with the controversial digital billboard on Route 22 have returned. So did a sinkhole, shutting Northwood Avenue for a few days and topping out Week in Review: Palmer Township residents go before Board of Supervisors to complain that Route 22 digital billboard is still too bright. Safety concerns raised as sinkholes open up once again on Northwood Avenue. Upgrades to Easton school buildings will cost nearly three times more than expected. Palmer Township recently changed to a new trash hauling system. Moyer Aviation's departure Wednesday leaves a void at Braden …
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Two Forks Township runners escaped injury in the Boston Marathon. Meanwhile, the school district lost a superintendent candidate, but saved its music program.
They made it through the race and made it out alive. Two Forks Township runners escaped injury in the Boston Marathon attacks. Meanwhile, Forks officials tried to explain police program cuts. One cut that wasn't made was the music program in the Easton Area School District, which did have the second of two schools superintendents drop out. Here's the Week in Review: Two Forks Township women had just completed the Boston Marathon Monday when the bombs exploded. They escaped injury. Robert Culp tells Easton school officials he's no longer interested in superintendent job. Easton Area School Board can't decide on tax increase, but says music won't be cut. Forks Township supervisors comment on cuts to police-run bike derby and youth academy. …
Saturday, April 13, 2013
The Easton Area School District faces more staff cuts and tax hikes while a superintendent candidate pulls out of contention.
The billboard battles rages on in Palmer Township. Palmer Township took action this week against the developer of the controversial Route 22 digital billboard, filing an injunction Friday to get code violations up to snuff. Meanwhile, the Easton Area School Board faces a difficult decision Tuesday: Choosing how many staffers will lose their jobs and how large of a tax hike it will pass on to taxpayers. Also, one of two candidates to replace the district's schools superintendent announced that he was pulling out of contention. Michael Schilder, head of a New Jersey school district, has withdrawn his name, blogger reports. 'Teen Mom 2' star and Nazareth grad Kailyn Lowry live-tweets during a recent episode and has a few choice words for the …
Friday, April 12, 2013
Palmer Township solicitor files injunction Friday morning over controversial digital billboard on Route 22.
The fate of the controversial digital billboard on Route 22 in Palmer Township is now in the court's hands. Palmer Township Solicitor Charles Bruno filed an injunction Friday morning in Northampton County Court for the billboard developer to comply with several township code violations. Supervisors Chairman Dave Colver said that a hearing for the injunction against developer Abraham Atiyeh is sometime next week but he did not know the date and time. The Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a motion Monday night to go forward with the injunction. Atiyeh was given 24 hours to get into code compliance before the township went to court. But when that deadline came and went, Colver said that Bruno went ahead and started preparing the …
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Palmer Township will go to court to give developer 24 hours to get in compliance with controversial Route 22 billboard.
Palmer Township is going to court over the controversial digital billboard on Route 22. The Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a motion Monday night for Solicitor Charles Bruno to file an injunction in Northampton County Court for the billboard developer to comply with several township code violations. "This is something very serious. We've never done this before," Supervisor Bob Lammi said. "This could take months as far as zoning and go on and on. We should move forward with the injunction." Supervisors then decided that developer Abraham Atiyeh should only be given 24 hours to get in compliance or have the court order him to shut off the billboard until he does so. "I think we should file an injunction against him until he gets …
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Some residents believe that a digital billboard on Route 22 in Palmer Township is leading to accidents on the highway. Take our poll below.
The new digital billboard on Route 22 in Palmer Township has many issues attached to it, some residents say. They say it's too bright, that it was put up illegally and that it's a public nuisance. But does it cause crashes too? Some residents who appeared at a recent Palmer Township Board of Supervisors meeting told officials about a few crashes that have happened along Route 22 where the billboard has been erected, on the other side of the highway not too far away from the Charles Chrin Community Center. Township officials could only listen. There has been no data to support such a claim, at least on the local level. Palmer officials have sent notice to the developer that the billboard is in violation of township codes. An update may be …
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Palmer Township officials fire off notice to developer that he's in violation for putting up digital billboard along Route 22.
The battle over the new digital billboard along Route 22 has begun. Palmer Township officials—after fielding residents' complaints and concerns for several meetings—fired off a notice to the developer who put up the billboard last month that he is in violation of township codes. Residents appeared for a third straight meeting to express disgust over the billboard, which they say is too bright and is ruining their quality of life. One resident also proclaimed that it was illegal. Palmer Township officials updated residents on where the billboard stands at last week's Board of Supervisors meeting, stating that it must play a waiting game with the developer. "We would hope that you wouldn't think that we specifically targeted your …
Sunday, March 31, 2013
There will be no Palmer Township Board of Supervisors meeting on Monday.
If you want to see the Palmer Township Board of Supervisors in action this month, you better circle April 8 on your calendar. Palmer officials have canceled Monday night's meeting and that's no April Fools' Day joke. "Due to the lack of agenda items the Board's meeting scheduled on April 1st has been canceled. The next scheduled meeting is April 8th at 7:00pm.," came to announcement posted on the township's website. The April 23 meeting is off, Township Manager Christopher Christman said, because township officials have to attend a conference in Hershey. Palmer supervisors meet three times a month: the first two Mondays of each month and the fourth Tuesday. The board has been facing some packed houses in the conference room of the Palmer …
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Palmer Township resident tells Board of Supervisors that new digital billboard violates zoning codes.
Charles Diefenderfer has appeared before the Palmer Township Board of Supervisors twice this month to complain about the new digital billboard on Route 22 that is blinding—and infuriating—residents. The resident of Hay Terrace—where most of the complaints have been lodged—stated at a recent supervisors meeting attended by a dozen residents that the billboard isn't up to snuff. "It's in violation of township zoning codes," he said. Defanderfer stated that, in checking township meeting minutes and records, he did not believe the sign permit is legitimate. "When the permit was issued, the work was null and void in six months because the billboards were approved in December yet the ordinance was adopted on Dec. 27, 2011," Diefenderfer stated. …
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Palmer Township residents say digital billboard on Route 22 disrupting their quality of life.
It's bright and blinding, ugly and interfering. It's disrupting and disturbing, dangerous and damaging. It's a public nuisance and visual pollution. And it's now up along Route 22 in Palmer Township, with the above description reflecting the dismay of a group of residents who live along Hay Terrace. Residents came out in force Monday night to protest to the Board of Supervisors a new digital billboard that they say is ruining their quality of life, killing their property values, illuminating their homes and causing sleepless nights. After signing off to entertain offers from vendors to put up digital billboards along two spots in Palmer Township, officials got an earful from residents who say their eyes are telling them this big, bright …
b johnson
1:13 pm on Sunday, April 14, 2013
Seems like the comments are more sympathetic to our plight than some of those here and especially those on lehighvalleylive.com! more ›