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Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:00:00 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BARRETT TOWNSHIP ZONING HEARING BOARD The Barrett Township Zoning Hearing Board will conduct a public hearing at the Barrett Township Municipal Building, 1200 Route 390, Cresco, PA 18326 on February 6, 2025, at 6:00 p.m. to hear the application of Elizabeth Cichello and Jason Delp for a variance for property located at 372 Lake Road, Canadensis, Pennsylvania, 18325, bearing a tax parcel number 1/6/1/3. The property is located in an R Zone and is 1.5 acres. The variance requested is for the purpose of allowing the property owner and occupant to maintain three (3) goats on the property as emotional support animals. A variance is requested from the requirement for the keeping of livestock under § 525-23(c) of the Barrett Township Zoning Ordinance. A variance has also been requested to disassemble a barn located 25 feet from the rear property line, and re-build the structure 50 feet from the rear property line.

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:00:00 ESTATE NOTICE Estate of John J. Marczyk, Sr. a/k/a John J. Marczyk, late of Middle Smithfield Township, Monroe County, PA. Any person or persons having claim against or indebted to estate present same to Administrator Theodore J. Marczyk DiFelice Law, LLC 240 S. Main Street, Suite 1206 Nazareth, PA 18064 January 13,20,27 2025 LSOM0220749

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:00:00 PUBLIC NOTICE OF MEETING SCHEDULE FOR 2025 During 2025, the Barrett Township Board of Supervisors will convene public meetings at the Barrett Administrative and Recreation Complex, 1200 Route 390, Cresco, Pennsylvania 18326, according to the following schedule: Regular meetings will be held on the second Wednesday of each month at 5:30 P.M. and on the fourth Wednesday of each month at 8:00 A.M. Unless otherwise advertised, regular meeting will be held on Jan 22, Feb 12, Feb 26, March 12, March 26, April 9, April 23, May 14, May 28, June 11, June 25, July 9, July 23, Aug 13, Aug 27, Sept 10, Sept 24, Oct 8, Oct 22, Nov 12, Nov 26, Dec 10 and Dec 24. Work session meetings will be held on the third Wednesday of each month at 8:00 A.M., unless otherwise advertised. Work sessions will be held on Jan 15, Feb 19, March 19, April 16, May 21, June 18, July 16, Aug 20, Sept 17, Oct 15, Nov 19 and Dec 17.

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:00:00 PARADISE TOWNSHIP PUBLIC NOTICE The PARADISE TOWNSHIP meeting schedule for 2025 is as follows: Board of Supervisors Work-Sessions/Regular Meetings: 1st & 3rd Monday/Month at 5:00 & 6:00 PM respectively except as noted*. Jan. 20 July 7 and 21 Feb. 3 and *19 Aug. 4 and 18 March 3 and 17 Sept. *3 and 15 April 7 and 21 Oct. 6 and 20 May 5 and 19 Nov. 3 and 17 June 2 and 16 Dec. 1 and 15 The Feb. 19, and the Sept. 3 meetings will be held on Wednesdays. All meetings will be held at the Paradise Township Municipal Building, 5912 Paradise Valley Road, Cresco, PA. Please check our website Paradisetownship.com for information on meetings or call 570-595-9880. All meetings are open to the public.

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:00:00 PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the regular meeting of the Middle Smithfield Township Park & Recreation Board originally scheduled for 6:15 p.m., Monday, February 3, 2025, has been cancelled and rescheduled to Tuesday, February 4, 2025, at 6:15 p.m. The meeting shall be for any business as may come before the Board. Meetings are held at the Schoonover Municipal Center, 147 Municipal Drive East Stroudsburg PA 18302. Middle Smithfield Township Michele L. Clewell, Township Secretary

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:00:00 PUBLIC NOTICE WESTFALL TOWNSHIP BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MEETING DATES AND PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING DATES FOR 2025: Location of all Meetings: 102 LaBarr Lane, Matamoras, PA 18336 Time of all Meetings: 7:00 p.m. Supervisors: Monday, January 6, 2025, Organization & Regular Meeting Monday, February 3, 2025, Regular Meeting Monday, March 3, 2025, Regular Meeting Monday, April 7, 2025, Regular Meeting Monday, May 5, 2025, Regular Meeting Monday, June 2, 2025, Regular Meeting Monday, July 7, 2025, Regular Meeting Monday, August 4, 2025, Regular Meeting Tuesday, September 9, 2025, Regular Meeting Monday, October 6, 2025, Regular Meeting Monday, November 3, 2025, Regular Meeting Monday, December 1, 2025, Regular Meeting Workshop Meetings will be scheduled and advertised as needed.

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:00:00 INVITATION TO BID The Monroe County Commissioners will receive sealed Bids online via the PennBid Program (www.PennBid.net) for the following Contract for work located within Monroe County: 2025 - 2027 MONROE COUNTY ANNUAL BRIDGE DECK CLEANING AND VEGETATION CONTROL PROGRAM The Scope of Work under the contract includes bridge deck cleaning and vegetation trimming in spring and fall 2025, 2026, and 2027. The application of an herbicide once annually and the removal of debris from the shoulders and stream channel in each event are required as part of this Contract. Bid proposals will be received online until 2:00 p.m. local prevailing time on Friday, February 7, 2025, via the PennBid Program (www.PennBid.net). Bids will be opened online. The bids summary will be reviewed by the county in the Commissioners' Public Meeting Room, Monroe County Administrative Center, One Quaker Plaza, Room 203, Stroudsburg, PA 18360 at 2:30 p.m. on Friday, February 7, 2025.

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:00:00 PARADISE TOWNSHIP PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Zoning Hearing Board of Paradise Township has scheduled a Public Hearing at the Paradise Township Municipal Building, 5912 Paradise Valley Road, Cresco, Monroe County, Pennsylvania 18326 on Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at 6:00 p.m. to consider the application of JSPA Realty, LLC, requesting a variance from the Zoning Hearing Board to permit the short-term rental use of the property located at 133 Montanesca Rd., Pennsylvania, 18344, through relief from §160-12.A(64.A0 and Attachment I of the Township Zoning Ordinance. The applicant further appeals the determination of the Zoning Officer, specifically the denial of a zoning permit application for the change the use of the subject property from a single-family detached dwelling to a short-term rental use. The property is located in the R-2 zoning district of the Township.

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:00:00 NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND FORECLOSURE SALE WHEREAS, on November 28, 2007, a certain mortgage was executed by HAZEL L. BARNES and KENNETH W. BARNES, as mortgagor in favor of VERTICAL LEND, INC. as mortgagee and was recorded in Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Monroe County in Mortgage Book 2322 Page 6155 Instrument # 200744678 (“Mortgage”); and WHEREAS, the Mortgage encumbers property located at 1533 Wallace Street Stroudsburg, PA 18360, parcel number 17.5.1.40 (“Property”); and WHEREAS, Mortgagor/ Record Owner HAZEL L. BARNES died on 09/22/18. By operation of law title vests solely in KENNETH W. BARNES and HAZEL L. BARNES is hereby released of liability pursuant to Pa.R.C.P. 1144. KENNETH W. BARNES died on 11/27/21 intestate and is survived by no known heirs. ;and WHEREAS, the Property was owned by HAZEL L. BARNES & KENNETH W.

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:00:00 Monroe County Conservation District 2025 Board Meeting Dates THE REGULAR SCHEDULED MONTHLY meetings for the Monroe County Conservation District Board of Directors for 2025will take place at the Monroe County Conservation District/Environmental Education Center, 8050 Running Valley Road, in Bartonsville beginning at 10 A.M. Work Sessions will be held prior to each Board Meeting at 9A.M. Meetings of the Board of Directors will be held on the following dates: January 16th February 20th March 20th April 17th May 15th June 19th July 17th August 21st September 18th October 16th November 20th December 11th at 10:30am at Stroudsmoor Country Inn located 257 Stroudsmoor Road, Stroudsburg PA 18360 If you require any special accommodations with regard to these meetings, please provide sufficient notice of your needs to the Monroe County Conservation District Office, 8050 Running Valley Road, Stroudsburg, PA 18360 or phone 570-629-3060.

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:00:00 NOTICE TO STROUD TOWNSHIP RESIDENTS CHRISTMAS TREE RECYCLING PROGRAM Township residents are asked to participate in our Christmas Tree Recycling Program Holiday Trees may be dropped off at any of the following locations The trees will be processed through our chipper and returned to nature as wood chips and compost Trees will be accepted until January 31 2025 DROP OFF LOCATIONS Township Maintenance Yard 134 Gaunt Rd Township Building 1211 N 5th St rear lot Poplar Valley Fire Station Poplar Valley Rd Pinebrook Park South Parking Lot PH 40747981

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:00:00 ESTATE NOTICE Estate of Marilyn J. Avery, late of Jackson Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania deceased on October 21, 2024. Letters Testamentary in the above named estate having been granted to the undersigned, all persons indebted to the estate are requested to make immediate payment, and those having claims are directed to present the same without delay to the undersigned or his/her attorney within four months from the date hereof and to file with the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the Forty-Third Judicial District, Orphans’ Court Division, a particular statement of claim, duly verified by an Affidavit setting forth an address with the County where notice may be given to Claimant. Ronald S. Avery, Executor c/o Keith W. Stohl, Esquire Steckel and Stopp, LLC 125 S Walnut Street, Suite 210 Slatington, PA 18080 1/7,1/14,1/21/25

The Stroudsburg Varsity Boys’ Basketball team drops its fourth straight game by a score of 67-27 to Pocono Mountain West on January 13. The Panthers were red hot straight out of the gate, but Stroudsburg kept it close until the end of the first quarter with a score of 18-9. In the second quarter, West started to pull away going on a 21-3 run to end the quarter with a score of 39-14. Out of the half Stroudsburg couldn’t get anything going and it stayed that way as the West offense was flying around the court and grabbing all the rebounds. By the end of the third quarter, the game was out of reach with the score being 58-21. All of this lead to our final score of 67-27. “ This win hurts a little, as West is one of our biggest rivals. They are a good team and we can perform better. I have faith though, the future of this team is bright.”

On Friday, Jan. 10, 2025, a court case for President-elect Donald Trump was held online for falsifying business records and a sentencing for the same account. In May of 2024, he was found guilty of thirty-four felon accounts of falsifying business records. The case was in favor of E. Jean Carroll, a journalist, to whom Trump was ordered to pay $83 million. Sophie Best ’26, said, “Both Democrats and Republicans will be affected by the actions of their leader. It might be harder for some rules to be made based on what their leader does.” Trump was convicted, however, he was sentenced to no jail time, fines, or probation. “You now have a group of people that may see what the President-Elect did and decide that it’s okay to do the same thing, especially considering nothing will happen to President-Elect Trump,” says Nikolaos Kontos.

A total of 1,771 students have been named to the Dean’s List at East Stroudsburg University for the Fall 2024 semester of the 2024-2025 academic year, as announced by Margaret Ball D.M.A., the university’s provost and vice president for academic affairs. Students eligible for the Dean’s List must have achieved a 3.50 grade point average (GPA) or higher and be enrolled full-time. For reference, the grade “B” equates to 3 quality points per credit, while an “A” earns 4 quality points per credit. Dr. Ball expressed her pride in the achievement, saying, “It is quite rewarding to see so many students on the list this semester. Congratulations to each of them on their dedication and fine work.” Fall 2024 Dean’s List

Police Pursuit Ends in ArrestDetails Map On January 14th, at approximately 12:15am, an officer with The Pocono Township Police Department attempted to stop a white Subaru for traffic violations in the area of Route 611 and Great Wolf Lodge in Scotrun. The driver of the Subaru failed to stop, fled onto Route 80 eastbound at a high rate of speed, and deactivated his headlights in an attempt to avoid detection.

The Mountaineer staff would like to wish Lillian Blazick a very happy birthday!

Pues, Hunter Owen - (1 Count) (18) 4914 (a) False ID To Law Enforcement Officer (M3) and 1 additional chargeWarrantCreated Jan 8, 2025 / Updated Jan 13, 2025On September 25, 2024, Stroud Area Regional Police were dispatched to the Walmart in East Stroudsburg for a report of a retail theft.  A male in the store had selected new clothing articles, removed his wet clothes and put on the new clothes.  The male

Ramos, Luis Angel - (1 Count) (18) 3929 (A)(1) Retail Theft (M1) and 2 additional chargesWarrantJan 13, 2025On September 30, 2024, at 3:13 p.m.

Retail Theft at CVSCaseJan 13, 2025On January 13, 2025, at 1:00 PM, the Stroud Area Regional Police Department (SARPD) responded to a report of a retail theft at the CVS located at 250 S Courtland St, East Stroudsburg,that occurred January 10, 2025 at about 6:30 PM.  During the investigation, it was discov...read more