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NOVEMBER 4-10, 2021
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After year Nazareth Borough’s by Of hearings, Mark Morella honored Ed Pany East Allen By Northampton County Supervisors Coal to War, part 3 of 6 Reject Rock LV’s Curative Amendment Pleas By HOME NEWS STAFF
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Penn State College (now University) was offering in the community. The course was a defense training program. The 180-hour course was entitled ORD-Ordinance Inspection, taught by the engineering science managerial program. The Philadelphia Navy Yard was advertising for employees. We were in World War II so Philamay applied for a job and boarded a bus to Philadelphia. When she reached the yard, the fenced entrance was guarded by two armed sailors. Ms. Wadzinski was called to the employment
During their meeting on October 28, East Allen Township Supervisors closed the Rock LV Curative Amendment Hearing. After over a year of testimony, on pause during the COVID-19 pandemic, supervisors rejected all four allegations made by the developer. The hearing began in January 2020 after Rock LV alleged that the township’s zoning ordinance did not provide zoning for a modern logistics center. Supervisors listened to testimony from experts on both sides of the argument to determine whether this allegation was true. In the end, using the evidence provided, supervisors determined that a logistics center and a warehouse are one and the same. This decision served as the basis for rejecting the four allegations. The first allegation made by Rock LV was that the township’s zoning ordinance allows for a complete and total ban on logistics centers. All supervisors except Don Heiney rejected this claim. Heiney argued that logistics centers and warehouses
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Navy Yard Booklet, photo courtesy of Catherine Csencsitz. In this column I am at the home of my neighbors Greg and Catherine Csencsitz, recalling her father’s military service and her mother’s employment at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. I have been there for eight hours, I better leave now! Her mother Philamay Wadzinski was born on July 25, 1921 in Nanticoke, Pa. in the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania. An honor student, she graduated from Nanticoke High School and enrolled in Wilkes College. Unfortunately her father would not pay the tuition so Philamay dropped out of school. She did complete a course that
Northampton County Executive Lamont McClure presents Mark Morella, Emergency Management Director and Assistant Fire Chief in the Nazareth Borough, with his Northampton County Outstanding Emergency Personnel award. By CHRISTINA SANTO Northampton County executive Lamont McClure presented emergency management director Mark Morella with the “Employee of the Year” award at the Nazareth Borough Council meeting on Monday, Nov. 1. Morella was honored for his dedication and extensive work throughout the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. “I’m sure we all know what an emergency management director position had been in the past, but when this pandemic hit, boy did Mark step up… We got through the pandemic much easier because of Mark,” said council president Daniel Chiavaroli. The Nazareth Borough Council also discussed a resolution making changes to the refuse and recycling rules, as well as upcoming events. Resolution 11-21 would prohibit containers
from being placed for collection earlier than 7 a.m. of the morning prior to the scheduled collection date. Further, residents who place their refuse for collection earlier than the allowed time will be notified by the borough enforcement officer that it must be removed within 12 hours; if it is not removed within 12 hours, the code officer will issues a $50 ticket to the resident, and the borough will remove the refuse Continued on page 3
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