It is award show season so let’s pile on by inventing a new event; the Pike Cyber Awards, recognizing the most notable Pike municipal websites. No one is getting gussied up in formalwear, it’s just pretend. The no website award: Milford Township. If the township is waiting to see if this internet thing is going [...]
Delaware Township supervisors unanimously voted to donate $5000 to Safe Haven of Pike County, the local domestic violence and sexual assault responders. It is the first time the township has made a cash donation to Safe Haven. Dingman Township has given $10,000 to Safe Haven annualy for years, including 2012. In Delaware, the money [...]
The Pike County Public Library has announced changes in its scheduled hours of operation. Effective Feb. 1, the Milford and Dingman Township branches will close at 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday. In addition, the Milford Branch will open at noon on Wednesday and the Dingman Township Branch will be closed on Saturday.
The Pennsylvania Game Commission starts its annual sale of bluebird nesting boxes Monday. The boxes cost $9.54 which includes sales tax. Shipping is extra. Customers may choose assembled boxes or kits that can be assembled as a wood-working project. “Bluebirds are early nesters, so now is the time to put up new nest boxes, as [...]
Somewhere in Jordan(Yes, the country) two large air handlers are being assembled from American made parts. The air handlers belong on the on the roof of the Pike County Training complex, connected to the building’s geothermal heating system. The $11 million project is not complete without those air suckers. That is a problem. The Blooming [...]
The Eastern Pike Regional Police Department held its second annual pet food drive in December in support of the Pike County Humane Society. This year, thanks to the generous public donations, the department collected 398 pounds of pet food. The Pike County Humane Society is a great ally of the police department, helping police with animal calls [...]
Chunks of metal from the World Trade Center have been parceled out to every state in the country to be placed in a variety of memorials. A piece of the revered steel is already on display in Pike County, in the private community of Hemlock Farms. This week a 100 pound piece was delivered to [...]
That Wisconsin paper company bringing some 40 jobs to Stroud Township? It could have been in Pike County. When Northwoods Paper Converting of Beaver Dam, Wis. wanted to expand to the eastern part of the country, company, officials looked first in Pike County. It was where they wanted to be, Pike County Economic Development Authority [...]
2012 marks the fourth year since the Eastern Pike Regional Police Department was formed through the consolidation of the Westfall and Matamoras police departments. At department headquarters there are two frames on the wall showing proposed ideas for the patch officers now wear on uniforms. Two were designed by Chief Chad Stewart and one was [...]
The duct tape art trend has been sticking around at Delaware Valley Elementary School. One popular design students have been making is the duct tape rose pencil topper which is made with so much tape that the center of gravity changes in the pencil, making for wobbly but fashionable penmanship. The sticky hobby is now [...]
