The Manchester City Council reviewed bids last night for asbestos removal and demolition of 500 North Franklin.
Some groups had hoped to save the building and repurpose it, but City Manager Tim Vick says it would be difficult to renovate it to make it compliant.
The City Council approved the low bid for asbestos abatement to Advanced Environmental Testing & Abatement of Waterloo at a cost of over $18,000. They also approved the low bid for demolition to Lansing Brothers of Luxemburg for just under $26,000.
The Manchester City Council also approved the preliminary and final plat of the Kehrli Farmstead 5th Subdivision – a three lot subdivision. The land lies west of North 13th Street near Norby’s. The developer would like to build senior housing there.
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FARMINGTON Franklin County commissioners Tuesday set the 2021-22 budget review for April 20. Commissioners also voted to approve repairing a sewer line with a patch at the Sheriff’s Office.
The proposed budget is still being put together.
A formal invitation will be sent to the Budget Advisory Committee to attend commissioners’ review of the budget either in person, through a Zoom program or it can be watched on Mt. Blue Community Access TV, which is livestreamed.
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County Clerk Julie Magoon said she liked Zoom much better than a Vast conference call option.
Selectmen from each of the three districts Monday evening elected selectmen to fill vacancies on the Budget Committee.
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The Civil War was anything but civil for civilians in this region. The area was very divided politically during the Civil War. At the time, Wilkes-Barre had a population of 2,723 residents, of which 121 were Black. Many escaped slaves knew there were those here who would aid them to freedom in New York and Canada, thanks to the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, founded here in 1848 by free Blacks. It quickly became a center for the Underground Railroad. Many came here because there was work in the coal mines or other types of labor, so they crossed the Mason Dixon line at the border of Maryland and Pennsylvania, marking the border between slave and free states, and found their way to Northeast Pennsylvania and the church.