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THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 2021 • Volume 41 – No. 33 ©2021, THE JOURNAL-HERALD. All Rights Reserved
WASB back in-person again by Seth Isenberg
Weatherly Area School Board held their regular March meeting on March 10, open again to the public, spread out in the cafeteria before a small audience. In business, Mark Kane was approved as assistant softball coach, with an $1,800 stipend, and Shane Hoffman was approved to be a volunteer assistant softball coach. Board member Matt von Frisch was reappointed as the Board’s representative to the Carbon-Lehigh Intermediate Unit. The Meadows Psychiatric Center was approved to provide educational services for the coming two years. Policy changes were approved for first reading, including changes to the oath of office for school directors, parent registrations language, regulations for school bus driver and school vehicle drivers. Madilyn Hinkle was recognized as student of the month for February. April 1 was approved as a make-up for the snow day taken off on Feb. 16.
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Golden Oaks developer seeks plan changes
FIRE ENGINES AND AMBULANCES escorted Arnie Selert to his final resting place at St. Matthew’s Union Cemetery in Packer Township on Saturday. Above, a ceremonial arch at the bridge over the Black Creek; by Seth Isenberg below, mourners at the cemetery. Visit the JournalHerald Facebook page for a video of the procession. At the March meeting of the Photos by Paul O’Sullivan & Seth Isenberg Kidder Township Planning Board, builder Tuskes Homes brought a plan to the board for review. They will be looking for tweaks to the standing plans for the development, adding 36 “duplex” homesites (doubles) and switching 16 planned for duplexes, to become single home sites. The new plans show a cluster of duplexes west of Red Oak Drive, 10 of which would be on a new road to be built there; another cluster of 12 See WASB, page 5
duplexes atop the development at the far eastern corner, on another new road, East Oak Lane; then another dozen along the new Willow Oaks Drive. The plan was submitted as information, and not up before the Board for approval yet. It does introduce the builder’s vision of Golden Oaks as more homes are constructed there, and development starts on its way to being fully built out.