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The question of who holds liability for a set of steps connecting West Broadway and High Street in Jim Thorpe Borough now rests with a Carbon County judge following a nonjury trial last week. Ownershi. ....
A Jim Thorpe property owner in a legal dispute with the borough over maintenance responsibilities for a set of concrete steps connecting West Broadway and High Street is asking council to settle the c. ....
Post-industrial public steps could use some love, attention lancasteronline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lancasteronline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Saving those steps - which actually number 88 - has become a passion project for two women with Shamokin roots. One of them, Allison Williams, used to climb the stairs every day as a child. The other, Kathy Vetovich, has been trying to pump life back into the hardscrabble town 130 miles northwest of Philadelphia. Vetovich, president of the Shamokin Area Business for Economic Revitalization (SABER), owns several properties downtown, and turned a former church into a coffeehouse at the base of the stairs. Shamokin has nine sets of public stairs, and Vetovich said they should be signs of life, not grave markers of the past. ....
In Pennsylvania towns, public steps could use some love and attention mcall.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mcall.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.