Borough Website Almost Ready!

It's almost ready folks - the new Tatamy Borough Website is almost finished. Thanks to the feedback that I have received from a lot of you, I've been hard at work and made a lot of changes. You can get a sneak peek here. If you check it out, please email me and let me know what you think. I'll announce the official domain name hopefully later this week.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Safe Water and Fire Company Breakfast

Well, in case you haven't guessed by now, the water in town has been declared safe to drink. I apologize for not updating the blog, but thought most of you probably already knew.

My son Jordan and I had a fantastic breakfast this morning at the Tatamy Fire Company. If you haven't had the chance to enjoy breakfast at the Fire Company, give it a try. They give you plenty of food, everything's great, and for $5.50, you can't beat it. Plus, you're supporting a great cause. Breakfast is served the third Sunday of every month, from September through May, from 7:30AM until 12:30PM. We hope to see you there!

It looks like it's going to be a good week weather wise. Let's enjoy it - tomorrow is the first day of Autumn, and, as we all know, the long, cold days of winter are drawing closer and closer every day.

Have a good week everyone!

Boil Water Advisory In Effect

Pennsylvania American Water Company has issued a Boil Water Advisory for folks in the Tatamy area until further notice. From WFMZ:

The Pennsylvania American Water Company has issued a MANDATORY BOIL WATER ADVISORY for customers in parts of Northampton County. They say an equipment malfunction has led to lower disinfectant levels and an increased chance that the water may contain disease-causing organisms. Customers may experience low water pressure or no water pressure while the situation is being resolved. The boil water advisory applies to customers in the following municipalities: Easton, Nazareth, Upper Nazareth, Palmer, Pen Argyl, Plainfield Township, Saylorsburg, Stockertown, Tatamy, Wind Gap, Bushkill Township, and Forks Township.

Tatamy Hunt Streetlighting - A Resolution

I received the following from Bob Mack (our Borough Engineer) today and thought I'd share it with you.

Met Ed assured us that, if Council votes to turn the lights on “now” and have the developer pay the energy cost, they will move on the turn on request as soon as Council passes the necessary resolution.

Basically, this means that Council will be presented with a resolution to review and approve at the October 6th Council Meeting. Once approved by Council, MetEd will be directed to turn on the power to the streetlights. There is much work to do on the part of the developer, the Borough Engineer and MetEd with regard to the eventual redesign and replacement of the streetlighting system in Tatamy Hunt, but it looks like we're finally moving forward.

According to Bob,

MetEd would act within 2 or 3 days from their receipt of the resolution from Council.

So there you have it folks. Light at the end of the tunnel (sorry, I just couldn't help myself).

See you around town!

Home Mail Delivery - Changes (May be) Coming!

Could it be that the days of going to the Post Office to get our mail are coming to a close? Perhaps, if the US Postal Service has their way.

Our mailboxes come up for renewal every year. The Postal Service is now requiring the owner of a free Post Office Box (e.g. most of us in Tatamy) to fill out a "Request for Rural Delivery" application which, if approved by the Postal Service, will require residents to install a rural type mailbox by the curb. Because the Postal Service will only provide one free method of mail delivery for each of their clients, if you are approved for rural delivery but want to keep your PO Box, you'll be required to pay for it. I'm not sure what the fee is (maybe $50/year?) but will find out.

Personally, I don't have a clue how this will work for those of us in town. There's no way the Postal Service will be able to drive down Broad, High or Main Streets in their Jeep delivering mail to each resident's box. Will they make us install cluster boxes? Will our applications for rural delivery service even be approved? These are all questions that I'm sure we're all going to have. I'll try to get more information and update the blog when I have it. For now I guess it's "stay tuned".