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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

10 Years Later: Peters Township Re-evaluated

As part of Peters Township's work toward a new comprehensive plan, a consultant team has released a report on what need to be improved in the area. Do you agree?

Work is under way to come up with a new comprehensive plan for Peters Township and the consultant team, LSL Planning, Inc., has just released its "Snapshot Report." The report provides an overview of the township as it is today, how it has changed the past ten years and how it compares to other communities and regions. The report listed many positive attributes about the township: Its school system is excellent; recreational opportunities abound; taxes are relatively modest; township government is proactive; and the quality of life is considered to be very good. In addition, the community has weathered the economic storm of the last few years considerably better than much of the rest of the country. As a result, growth and development have…

Greg Nardine

9:53 am on Wednesday, November 21, 2012

They need to hire him full-time, and stop with the consultants!   more ›

Monday, November 21, 2011

News Nearby: Experts Brief Property Owners on Marcellus Shale Land Use

Industry experts at Moon Township forum say property owners should ban together when considering leasing land to Marcellus Shale drilling companies.

Marian Schweighofer said it started for her on an evening four years ago, when a group of her fellow farmers in Wayne County gathered around a kitchen table. The group met to discuss the increasing number of offers each of them was fielding from natural gas drilling companies seeking to lease large tracts of Eastern Pennsylvania farmland to drill for Marcellus Shale gas. The neighbors collectively owned 10,000 acres of land. “We needed to find a way to pull our community together,” Schweighofer told a small audience of property owners Saturday at Robert Morris University. “We needed to be proactive now rather than reactive later. “Please realize that every part of the lease is negotiable,” she said. Schweighofer and a group of industry …

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