For the residents of North East who remember the contentious wind farm debate over the industrial wind turbine project proposed for the township, there is an excellent investigative report from Gatehouse Media, owners of the Erie Times News, now on their GoErie.com website. If there is any doubt we narrowly averted disaster, your time would […]
Revised Final Report States Hirtzel Road Site Now Meets Environmental Standards
Notice is hereby given that USF Holland has submitted a revised final report to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Northwest Region Office, to demonstrate attainment of the background standard for a site located at 2600 Hirtzel Road, North East, Erie County. USF Holland has indicated that the remediation measures taken have attained compliance with […]
Noosa – the New Lakeside Restaurant at the North East Marina
When Bob Mazza won the contract for marina operations last November, he said there would be a new restaurant with a Pennsylvania focus. Noosa is its name and the new management team is now in place, but they have their work cut out for them. There’s a lot of remodeling and updating needed before they […]
Bob Mazza Wins Contract to Operate North East Marina
Bob Mazza will be taking over operations at the North East Marina, following the retirement of Tim and Pat Truitt who operated the marina for the last two decades. The marina contract was open for bids last August and when Mazza learned of it, thought it was important that someone who recognized what an asset […]
Roberts Trucking Target of Complaints From Neighbors at Township Meeting
Monday morning’s meeting of the North East Township supervisors brought with it a large group of neighbors near Roberts Trucking who cited the long standing issue with dust from the company’s parking lot. Despite repeated concerns voiced in township meetings and numerous promises from Roberts Trucking to deal with the dust from the unpaved lot, […]
North East Township Welcomes New Supervisor and Planning Commission to Review Wastewater Outfall Into Lake Erie
The first meetings of 2016 for the North East Township Planning Commission and Supervisors take place on Monday, January 4th at 7PM and 7:30PM respectively at the North East Township municipal building. The planning commission, among other items, will review plans for relocating North East Borough’s treated wastewater effluent discharge from its current location in […]
North East Township Supervisors Begin Posting Meeting Agenda
After many months of requests, the upcoming meeting agenda for the North East Township supervisors is now online, prior to the day of the meeting. Anyone interested in attending can now see what will be discussed before actually arriving at the township building. Supervisors were reluctant to do this because they wanted to allow late […]
North East Township Supervisors Promise to Post Agenda Before Meetings
It was a pleasant surprise when a township resident asked the supervisors at Monday’s meeting to post their agenda online ahead of the meetings so anyone that was interested would know beforehand what they were going to talk about. As already noted, we are strong advocates of transparency and have been requesting exactly the same […]