| | 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 states efforts to support disabled people.
click for story
|
|
Empire Zone board shake up
Changes prompted in part by citizen activist
By FRITZ MAYER
MONTICELLO, NYThe 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, NYNoel van Swol is getting his wish. The New York State Attorney Generals (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 |
|