If you’re a man of a certain age, you remember slot cars, but you might have thought they disappeared years ago. Not so! They’re still around and coming back. Here in North East, there’s a track, North East Slotcar Raceway, with regular racing each week and they just hosted a Penn-Ohio Retro Series race with […]
North East Wind Turbine Project Ends
As reported on North East Windmills, the effort to build an industrial wind turbine project in North East Township has come to an end as Pioneer Green Energy has notified local land owners it will not be renewing leases for the construction of wind turbines on their property. Local residents opposed to the project are […]
North East Fruit Growers Annual Stockholders Meeting
The Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of North East Fruit Growers, Inc. will be held on Thursday, January 29th, 2015 at the Harborcreek Social Hall, 7275 Buffalo Road, Harborcreek, PA. A luncheon will be served at 12:30 p.m. followed by a meeting at 1:30 p.m. for the Election of Directors and for such other business […]
North East Township Supervisors Approve 2015 Budget
The North East Township supervisors approved the 2015 budget at a meeting at 10AM on Tuesday, December 30th. Supervisors also fixed the tax rate for the coming year with no tax increase. After Hill Engineering reviewed the waterline project bids opened on December 23rd and checking bidder references, the low bidder, Mortimer’s Excavating, was awarded […]
North East Township Waterline Project Bids Opened
Nine bids were received for the North East Township waterline project. At a 10AM meeting on December 23rd, the bids were opened. The amounts ranged from a low of $478,279.00 to a high of $893,398.00. The low bidder was Mortimer’s Excavating, Inc. Supervisors and Hill Engineering will go over the bids to be sure they […]
Virtual Oil Pipeline Runs Through North East
Did you know one of our country’s biggest oil pipelines runs right through the middle of North East? You’ve heard of the long delayed Keystone XL pipeline, but we’ve got a big one already in place, you could call it the North East XL pipeline. It’s made out of multiple oil trains about a mile […]
North East Township 2015 Proposed Budgets Now Online
As previously announced in a public notice, the 2015 preliminary budgets for North East Township are available for inspection at the township office between 9AM and 4PM. For those of you who wish to look them over, but cannot find free time during the day, we have made them available right here. It’s a lot […]
North East Township Supervisors Pass Local Services Tax
At a special supervisors meeting held November 25th, the North East Township supervisors voted to raise the local services tax from $10 per year to $52 per year as detailed in the new ordinance. The change will apply beginning January 1st, 2015. Also, the supervisors stated they received four bids for the JCB 215-S backhoe […]
Proposed Changes to the North East Township Zoning Ordinance
The Planning Commission presented recommended changes to the township zoning ordinance at the North East Township supervisors meeting on November 17. Though the supervisors said they would study those changes, the public was not told what they were during the meeting, but the newspaper lists them in their report. According to the newspaper the proposed changes […]
Special Meeting North East Township
North East Township Supervisors will hold a special meeting on Tuesday, November 25, 2014 at 9:00 am. The meeting will be held at 10300 West Main Road, North East, PA 16428. Karen Ahlgrim, Secretary Update: The ordinance to be discussed at this meeting is available for online examination here.