Boro Tightens Rules On Election Parking, Sidewalk Protests

By Jeremy Van Duyne

MILFORD — Two new ordinances in Milford Borough that will affect Election Day parking and street demonstrations have been passed.
Milford Borough Council enacted the ordinances into law at their latest meeting held last Tuesday. The first ordinance will regulate parking on West Catharine Street on the day of an election. Beginning at Gooseberry Alley and going toward Fifth Street, parking on West Catharine Street will be banned on both sides of the street for 100 feet on the day of an election and one prior as well.
“The reason for doing this is to make it easier for people, especially handicapped people, get in and out as quickly as possible during an election,” said Council President Frank Tarquinio. “The one-day prior is that road crew can be able to block it off. They will be able to set up their barricades.”
The second ordinance has regulated public demonstrations on Borough streets and property. The ordinance will require anyone seeking to have a larger demonstration to get a permit first through the Borough. The ordinance is not officially an ordinance yet. It was passed as a resolution first so that the Borough can have the immediate protection of it while they work out the remaining guidelines of it. .......................For more information subscribe to our paper.

 

Despite ‘Largest’ Lehman Budget, No Property Tax Hike

By Wayne Witkowski

BUSHKILL — For the 10th straight year, Lehman Township property owners will not see a property tax increase toward the General Fund. The proposed budget for the General Fund is $8,881.937, with a millage rate of six mills that remains the same.
But they will see an increase in the longstanding EMS fund from .333 mills to .5 mills. “It’s an increase of a few dollars,” said township Board of Supervisors Chairman Rob Rohner during last week’s township meeting.
The tax rate for the Bushkill Volunteer Fire Company holds at 1.5 mills, with a proposed 2022 budget of $252,729.
The overall millage rate is 8 mills.
The 2022 balanced budget is $11,689,493, which Rohner said is the “largest” the township has had.
The higher figure comes from two main sources: a new Lehman Pike Emergency Services ambulance corps that launches in January 2022, and a $4.3 million Bushkill Outreach and Community Center project, largely funded by grant money, that will have a groundbreaking sometime early next year.
Rohner said virtually all of the standard line items in the budget have had negligible or no increases.
Following the public viewing during which residents can examine the budget at the municipal building, the board will convene Dec. 20 at 7 p.m. for a ratification vote....................For more information subscribe to our paper.

 

Drug Dealer Gets State Time

 

MILFORD — William Henry Motz, 30, of Lake Ariel, PA, was sentenced by the Honorable Gregory H. Chelak on Nov. 12, to 36 months to 72 months in a state correctional facility and fined $1,000 for the crime of Possession with Intent to Manufacture or Deliver a Controlled or Counterfeit Substance.
Motz was the subject of state police surveillance for trafficking illegal substances in January 2021. On Feb. 9, 2021, Motz’s movements were tracked through his cell phone to a hotel in Westfall Township, and undercover police met him in the lobby where he was placed under arrest. A search of his backpack revealed 69 stamped glassine packets of heroin/fentanyl packaged for sale, three unmarked glassine packets, methamphetamine and marijuana. During an interview conducted by the state police after the arrest, Motz admitted that he would regularly travel to Paterson, NJ, to purchase bricks of heroin.