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Agendas for upcoming local meetings:
Posted here as soon as available
Upcoming Regular & Special Meetings:
NE School Board meeting 6:30PM 10-1-26

North East Township Public Hearing to Consider Zoning Change

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The North East Township Supervisors and Planning Commission will hold a meeting on Monday, July 6, 2015 at 7:30 pm at the North East Township Municipal Building, 10300 West Main Road, North East, PA to consider two rezoning requests. Lloyd and Joan Bemiss for their property with Tax ID# 37-024-103.0-026.00 and Joseph and Paula Warr […]

Bids Requested for North East Borough Street Resurfacing

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Bids will be received by North East Borough at the Borough Office, 31 West Main Street, North East, PA 16428 until 1:00 p.m. prevailing time on July 1, 2015 for street resurfacing of two (2) Borough Streets which includes approximately 490 tons of 9.5 mm Superpave Wearing Course, approximately 250 tons of 9.5 mm Superpave […]

Do You Know What North East Township Has Planned for Zoning?

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The comprehensive plan we’ve been discussing has many parts, but we’re jumping ahead just a bit because there will soon be a public hearing to consider a rezoning request. As we noted already, during the last planning meeting, residents were told the rezoning request was in line with “the plan,” and what we were told […]

Public Hearing for North East Borough Block Grant Program

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First public hearing North East Borough FY 2015 Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG) Notice is hereby given that North East Borough officials will hold a public hearing at 1:30 PM on Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at the North East Borough Municipal Building, 31 West Main Street, North East, PA 16428. The purpose of the […]

Burch Farms Country Market Files for Bankruptcy Protection

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The Erie Times News is reporting this morning that Burch Farms Country Market has filed for Chapter 12 bankruptcy protection. Burch Farms Inc., which operates Burch Farms Country Market on Sidehill Road, owes about $114,500 in employment and unemployment compensation taxes to the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue and Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry, according […]

Goals and Objectives of the North East Area Comprehensive Plan

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Every plan has a goal, whether it’s losing that last ten pounds, getting a college degree or finding a job, but the North East comprehensive plan is a lot more ambitious than that. The goals and objectives are to: … develop and preserve a pleasant, attractive, healthy, safe, efficient and convenient community environment for living, […]

What is the North East Area Comprehensive Plan?

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After attending many meetings of the planning commission and supervisors over the past two years, it was a bit unusual to hear “the plan” referred to in both meetings Monday evening during discussions of a rezoning issue. It has been mentioned before, though rarely, but Monday’s references by both planning commission alternate member Susan Sprague […]

Rezoning Issue Raises Tensions in Planning and Supervisors Meetings

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The Monday evening meetings of both the North East Township planning commission and the supervisors brought a group of residents from the neighborhood centered on South Washington street to air concerns over a proposed rezoning, from R2 residential to B1 commercial, of a property, owned by Lloyd and Joan Bemiss, adjacent to the Roberts Trucking […]