Bowmanstown News

The former manager of the Prince Manufacturing plant in Bowmanstown testified Wednesday that his old business was a hive of truck traffic, with occasional lines of tractor trailers picking up loads, customer visits, UPS deliveries and even truckers stopping to use the factory's scales.

Clark Lynn Jr., a 26-year employee of Prince, testified about the plant traffic as part of East Penn developer Duane Schleicher's case to open a recycling and trash transfer station at the site. The Bowmanstown Borough's Board of Zoning Appeals is considering whether to grant Schleicher an exception to allow the trash transfer station, where garbage trucks would consolidate their loads into larger trucks. Wednesday's meeting was the third public hearing in which the board listened to testimony and questions related to Schleicher's request.

Working to clean up neglected properties, Bowmanstown council has cited two landowners and threatened to go after a third -- the state Transportation Department.

PennDOT reports lane restrictions on the following roads in Carbon County: Hatchery Road in Penn Forest and Lower Towamensing townships, between Beltzville Drive and Route 903, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 27-July ...

Two area women involved in a two-county cocaine drug ring that federal and state authorities broke up three years ago have been sentenced.

More than 100 paddlers set out on the 2008 Lehigh River Sojourn on Saturday and will complete their trek in Easton today.

The former mayor of a small Carbon County borough was sentenced Friday to the 5A...'' months he has served in prison plus two yearsA ' probation for his role in a ring authorities said brought drugs from New York City to be sold in the area.

Guy Frehulfer, 53, who was WeissportA 's mayor from August 2004 until he resigned in January 2005 and served several terms on Borough Council, pleaded guilty almost two years ago to a felony count of unlawfully using a controlled substance while possessing a firearm.

An East Penn Township developer's plan to turn part of a farm into a housing development was rejected Tuesday by the Carbon County Planning Commission.

The Da Vinci Science Center in Allentown will debut a bug exhibit Saturday. It will feature one of the largest millipedes in the world and a giant tailless whipscorpion like the one featured in ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.''

In the ''Bug-in Out'' exhibit, families can see colorful and exotic insects and arachnids, including the 8-inch-long giant millipede from Africa, a pink tarantula from South America and an emperor scorpion.

Da Vinci will also open a nanotechnology exhibit Saturday to demonstrate how everything is made of tiny components. Kids can see objects magnified up to 200 times, build with simulated nanoparticles and find how big they are in nanometers.

FOUND Bunk beds: Sharon of Easton has a ''barely'' used Ikea bunk bed set she is willing to sell to Matt of Allentown.

Angry Bowmanstown residents questioned plans for a garbage and recycling station Wednesday that a developer hopes to build on the site of a former paint manufacturing plant in the borough.

A standing-room-only crowd of nearly 100 filled the borough's fire hall for the board of zoning appeals hearing, which had been moved from borough hall to accommodate the crowd. All of the questioners were critical of the plans proposed by East Penn Township developer Duane Schleicher for the 12-acre complex that was formerly the Prince Manufacturing facility.

A pair of Allentown residents were charged with fraud and counterfeiting after they used a phony $100 bill to pay for food at Bowmanstown Diner in Carbon County, said state police at Lehighton.

East Penn Township supervisors, who decided at a reorganization meeting in January that retaining its full-time township engineer was too expensive, have voted to hire an engineer on an as-needed basis.

The Pleasant Valley Ecumenical Network is hosting a Heart to Heart Gospel Concert on Sunday at Effort United Methodist Church to benefit the food bank. via Pocono Record

Bowmanstown officials are expecting such a large turnout for a zoning hearing for a garbage and recycling transfer station that they have moved the meeting to larger quarters. via The Morning Call

AN ADULT NATURE WALK will be held 9-10:30 a.m. today at Monroe County Environmental Education Center, 8050 Running Valley Road, Hamilton Township. via The Morning Call

A developer who in fall proposed putting a strip mall in a former paint pigment plant along Route 248 in Carbon County now proposes putting a garbage and recycling transfer station there. via The Morning Call

“There was nothing. So, making wine seemed like a good thing to do.”

For the past 25 years, Barbara Eastland of Bowmanstown has been bottling a wide variety of homemade wines. via Pocono Record

Despite dry weather that has contributed to brush fires in neighboring municipalities, Bowmanstown's mayor says he won't enact a burning ban in the borough because there's no way to enforce it. via The Morning Call

A Lehighton man was robbed at knifepoint after a struggle with the robber Tuesday afternoon in a vehicle parked at Lorenzo's Pizza in Bowmanstown, police said. via The Morning Call

Fifty-three-year-old Charles Remaley of Lehighton had loved trains since he was a boy. via The Morning Call