The National Park Service is seeking written comments to be submitted on the proposed strategy for prioritizing historic properties as well as potential treatment options by the end of March.

Their informational documents include a flowchart showcasing the strategy, as well as a newsletter that describes the strategy and treatment options in a different way.

All materials presented at the public meetings held on March 8th and 9th, 2017, are also available here. 


It is being administered through a partnership with MARCH - Montague's historical society - which also cares for the Nelden-Roberts Stonehouse.

 The Minisink Reformed Church building and the Montague Grange are also properties owned by the National Park Service, and cared for by the Church congregation and the Grange membership. 

 The remaining historic properties in town currently in need of partnerships or alternative proposals, and care through a Historic Property Stewards Volunteer-in-the Park program, are the DeRemer site [house dates to 1872], the Nelden-Hornbeck farm [aka "Roberts Farm", and the Mabel Roberts parcel [house originally known as Clark-Hornbeck].

Comments on the strategy can include input on issues, viability, and suggestions for alternative strategies. The strategy will be used to prioritize historic properties, and how each individual property would be prioritized will be released for public input in late Fall 2017.


A meeting is scheduled today from 6 to 8 p.m. at East Stroudsburg University's Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center, Room 336, 562 Independence Road, near the intersection of Route 209 and 447 and just off Exit 309 of Interstate 80 in Pennsylvania.
The National Park Service is in the process of creating a Historic Properties Management Plan to address the future of all  historic structures acquired during the Tocks Island Dam Project acquisitions, which created the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.


Release date:  February 23, 2017

 NPS Announces Public Meetings for Historic Properties Management Plan

BUSHKILL, PA- National Park Service (NPS) Superintendent John J. Donahue announced today that public scoping for the Historic Properties Management Plan (HPMP) for Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area will take place from Thursday, February 23 to Friday, March 31.   “This plan will provide guidance for park employees and managers when making strategic maintenance and preservation decisions about our historic structures in the future,” said Donahue.  “It will be a very important and useful tool and public input is essential.  At this time, we want to share what we’ve accomplished and solicit public comment on the proposed actions that we have developed.”  

To provide information about the project, answer questions, and solicit public comment, two public meetings have been scheduled.  The first meeting will be held from 6-8 pm
on March 8 in the cafeteria at North Warren Regional High School, 10 Noe Road, in Blairstown, NJ.  A second meeting is scheduled from 6-8 pm on March 9 in Room 336 of East Stroudsburg University’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center located at 562 Independence Road in East Stroudsburg, PA (near the intersection of Routes 209 and 447).  The public can also review documents and background information and provide comments online during the scoping period at http://parkplanning.nps.gov/DEWA_HPMP.
Comments may also be mailed to Superintendent John J. Donahue, Attn:  HPMP, 1978 River Road, Bushkill, PA, 18324. 

Preparing the HPMP is one of several mitigation measures intended to mitigate for adverse effects to cultural resources in the park from the construction and operation of the Susquehanna-Roseland Transmission Line. In 2012, the National Park Service released the Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and Record of Decision (ROD) for the S-R Line Project, which included a requirement that such a plan be prepared. When completed, the HPMP will incorporate evaluations of historic significance, physical and structural condition, and potential future uses and will recommend treatment options for each structure or property in the park.  It is expected to be completed in late-2018.


For more information on Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area and this project, call park headquarters at (570) 426-2452, Monday through Friday from 8 am until 4:30 pm; visit our website at www.nps.gov/dewa; of follow us on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/DelWaterGapNPS. 

2017

[This ran in the Jan. 23, 1917 issue of The Evening Gazette]
The Jamestown, N. Y., Chamber of Commerce is one of the most active and successful of the many Chambers of Commerce in the State of New York. The reason for this is that it has the earnest support of the business interests of that city. The Chamber publishes a paper appropri-ately called "The Civic Weal." In the January number of the "Weal" appeared the following New Year's resolution which the paper editorially expected every resident of Jamestown to adopt and live up to. 
 
I herein take liberty as the blog's creator to likewise pose: 
Let us all adopt their resolution, substituting as the paper had for "Jamestown" - whether we apply it to our immediate street, neighborhood, or the township. 
  "That I will begin the New Year with the thought that part of my time belongs to Montague.
"That I can well afford to give back to Montague some portion of what it has given to me.

"That I will co-operate with my fellow citizens in every move made for our common interest and betterment.

"That I will think only good thoughts about the town which is good enough for me to live in.

"That I will talk prosperity and think prosperity about my town and its future."
2017 will mark the 100th anniversary of the United States entering WW1.

Three years prior, on Christmas Day, there was a legendary truce.
painting by Angus McBride
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December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy."
Courtesy www.nationalww2museum.org
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