Youth Police Academy Restarted

By Jeremy Van Duyne

MATAMORAS — The Eastern Pike Regional Police Department has announced the return of their Law and Leadership program for local middle- and high-school students.
Assistant Chief for the EPRPD Eric Stewart discussed the program at last Tuesday’s Matamoras Borough Council meeting. The program is modeled after the police academy that all adult cadets go through to become sworn officers of the law.
The program is designed to teach teenage students about the civic duties they are meant to uphold in society. Things such as organization and teamwork exercises will be among the things taught. The program has not been held the past two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“This free camp is modeled after the police academies that adults attend to become sworn police officers,” reads the ad for the program............................For more information subscribe to our paper.

 

Supervisors Like Honesdale Firm For Comp. Plan

By Travis Caldwell

MILFORD — The May 16th Milford Township Supervisors Meeting incorporated a prior workshop during which interviews were held to help rank the two applicants who had submitted proposals for the Township’s Comprehensive Plan.
The applicants were Woodland Design Associates, a “small, family run, landscape architecture and planning business from Honesdale, PA” represented by brother and sister Jason Wood and Emily Wood, the corporation’s President; and Johnson, Moran, and Thompson, a much larger firm with their nearest branch office located at Allentown, represented through video-conference by April Showers, their Principal Designer.
The criteria for selection of the candidates, to be considered following their review interviews, is their understanding of the problem, their personnel’s qualifications, the soundness of their recommended approach to data analysis, and their cost. Supervisors passed a motion to select, with consideration of the Planning Commission’s recommendation, Woodland Design Associates to create Milford Township’s Comprehensive Plan. Woodland Design Associates will be notified of the decision and asked to send a draft contract to be sent to the County with the Scenic Rural Character Preservation Application.............................For more information subscribe to our paper.

 

Drivers Concerned About Bridge Work Detours

By Wayne Witkowski

DINGMANS FERRY — Most of the 20 people who gathered for the Delaware Township Board of Supervisors bi-monthly workshop prior to the regular meeting last week came to hear details about the plans and to voice their concerns about the impact Pennsylvania Department of Transportation work on two township bridges will have on their commutes and emergency response.
The projects call for 30-mile detours.
Supervisors made available to the public copies of the report from PennDOT. Feedback can be forwarded to PennDOT Project Manager Richard Summa at (570) 963-4933 or by email to rsumma@pa.gov.
One of the scheduled repairs: a single span, steel I-beam bridge on State Route 2001/Milford Road built in 1939, spans over Dingmans Creek. Work is scheduled to begin next spring. The bridge, which recently reduced its weight limit to a posted 20 tons because of its deteriorating condition, involves reconstruction, replacing portions of the concrete wingwalls, masonry work, milling and paving the approach roadway and updating guiderails. The detour, onto state routes 2003 and 2004 for a length of 32.5 miles, will take approximately four months.
“The Dingmans Creek bridge is about fixing everything,” said Supervisor Jane Neufeld.
Because of the reduced weight limit, many trucks have changed their routes onto Park Road. Township Roadmaster Vince Flatt has said in prior meetings that he has communicated with PennDOT his concerns about how the added heavy truck traffic has significantly damaged that road’s surface.
The other scheduled repair – a reinforced concrete slab bridge built in 1934 along State Route 2004 with a posted 30-ton weight limit, crosses Nichecronk Brook. It drew most of the attention in the workshop discussion. That project will involve milling the pavement for a 2 1/2-inch overlay on the bridge and milling and paving the approaching roadway as well as concrete deck repairs.
It will take about three weeks, tentatively through July. Traffic will be detoured for 36.5 miles onto state routes 2001 (Milford Road), 402, 739, 2004 (Silver Lake Road) and Interstate Route 84..............................For more information subscribe to our paper.