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MARCH 31-APRIL 6, 2022
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Hiking after one of the season’s first snow, nothing but snow, trees and shadows. Taken at Blue Mountain, Palmerton, Dec. 11, 2019. Photo by Simon Wachholz.
Bath Borough’s week-long Humanitarian aid collection Comes to a close
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Allen Township Supervisors Approve Willow Brook Farms curative amendment Ordinance, explore bridge Improvements By KERI LINDENMUTH During their March 22 meeting, the Allen Township Board of Supervisors continued to hear the curative amendment case brought before them by Willow Brook Farms and the Fuller Family Trust, developers of a proposed mixed-use subdivision. This hearing was continued from February 22. The original curative amendment was filed in 2018 by the developers. It requested an amendment to the township’s land development ordinance, allowing for the construction of the mixeduse subdivision. Earlier this year, the township’s planning commission recommended approval.
The first concern preventing supervisors from approving the ordinance was the height of the residential apartment buildings. Supervisor Dale Hassler did not want buildings over two stories due to fire safety concerns. Representatives from Willow Brook Farms returned to the board with a revised plan that includes twostory buildings with pitched roofs. Access for fire vehicles and ladders will be available from the road, as well as flat areas to the rear of the buildings. Township solicitor Lincoln Treadwell worked these adjust-
By SAVANNAH BROWN The Borough of Bath accepted donations to help the people of Ukraine from March 21 through March 27 at Firefighters Park, located at 300 North Chestnut St. in Bath. During the week, a FedEx trailer was parked at the location, where volunteers filled it with boxes of donations. Mayor Fiorella Mirabito organized the collection, which surpassed over 400 boxes of donations. Throughout the week, there were two shifts per day, and many volunteers who came to aid the effort. Mayor Mirabito noted she tried contacting several Ukrainian churches, but Father Richard Francis Jendras at Saint Mary’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Allentown was the only contact that reached out. Father Richard then put Mayor Mirabito in touch with Tanya Smirnov, who contacted the shipping company Nova Poshta. Nova Poshta is a Ukrainian parcel company based in the U.S. that delivers humanitarian goods across Ukraine and neighboring countries, and is shipping the contents to Poland along the Ukraine border. Mayor Mirabito stated that if the donations are not able to
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