TRR photo by Tom Kane Barbara Houghtaling has been appointed to a PA handicapped council by Governor Rendell.

Handicapped advocate says Wayne is dragging feet

County is working on handicapped accessibility

By TOM KANE

HONESDALE, PA - Barbara Houghtaling, a disabled Honesdale resident confined to a motor-powered wheelchair, said that the Wayne County government is not meeting its obligations to make the shared-ride program available to handicapped people.

She also accused the county of reacting slowly to other public accommodation measures that would provide handicapped access to government buildings, like the county courthouse.

Houghtaling was recently appointed to sit on the Pennsylvania Council for Independent Living by Governor Ed Rendell. The group meets four times a year to assist in the state’s efforts to support disabled people.

click for story

Empire Zone board shake up

Changes prompted in part by citizen activist

By FRITZ MAYER

MONTICELLO, NY—The actions of the board that oversees the Empire Zone program in Sullivan County have frustrated local activist Eileen Haworth Weil for more than a year. Now, Weil is a member of that board, and six of the ten members who used to sit on it are gone.

click for story

Attorney General investigates Sullivan West

Van Swol ‘vindicated’

By FRITZ MAYER

JEFFERSONVILLE, NY—Noel van Swol is getting his wish. The New York State Attorney General’s (AG) office is investigating the Sullivan West Central School District. Specifically, the AG is reportedly investigating whether there was any fraud involved in the voting in 1999 that merged the three districts that now comprise the district: Delaware Valley, Jeff-Youngsville and Narrowsburg.

click for story

Other stories in this issue:

• Art auction packs them in again
• Corrections
• New York voters choose Clinton, McCain
• Gozza named new head of economic development partnership
• Watershed district presses for a clean lake
• Power line company to complete application
• Wayne to purchase new voting system by primary

A D V E R T I S E M E N T S