Go pound salt

By DAVID HULSE

LACKAWAXEN, PA — Seasonal resource shortages were off to a flying start on October 20 when three of four prospective bidders for the township’s winter road salt purchase declined to bid.

The single bid that the township supervisors did receive on their 600-ton request came from a company, International Salt, that last year stopped township salt shipments in mid-winter and didn’t resume again until April, said supervisors chair Brian Stuart.

Not only did Lackawaxen “have issues with the bidder,” as Stuart said, but this year’s price represented a 125-percent increase in cost, from just under $33 per ton to just over $72.

Solicitor Jay Rose suggested that the bids be tabled.

“And pray there’s no snow,” Stuart added.

The supervisors will take up the salt issue again at a special meeting scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on November 10.

Prior to that meeting the supervisors will hold a public hearing on a conditional use zoning permit sought by Nextel for the erection of a communications tower at Woodloch Pines.

Woodloch Springs conditional use permit request for construction of a community building will be heard at 7:30 p.m. and their conditional use permit request to enlarge their recreation building at 7:45 p.m.