Antrim Township

By LISA GRAYBEAL Staff Writer, Waynesboro GREENCASTLE, Pa. - Antrim Township, Pa., residents can dump their trash for free at the Upton landfill starting today. Township residents can dump up to four 30-gallon bags of trash every week at the landfill on 9760 Letzburg Road, said Teresa Schnoor, township administrator. The landfill is permitted to accept up to 1,850 tons of trash a day. The trash is accepted from 7 to 11 a.m. "As a host municipality, they (township supervisors)

o Fridgen elected to school board GREENCASTLE, Pa. -- The Greencastle-Antrim Chamber of Commerce announced Tuesday that Antrim Township, Pa., resident Joel Fridgen has been chosen as the Chamber's new executive director. Effective Monday, Fridgen replaces Bill Gour, who resigned in late August. Fridgen, former plant manager for Regency Thermographers, is a 1977 graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota, according to a news release. "I am excited and looking forward to working with the Chamber's board of directors," he said.

GREENCASTLE, PA. -- Traffic should move smoothly through the Borough of Greencastle and Antrim Township this fall when more than eight miles of area paving projects come to a close. As early as Oct. 15, PennDOT and Antrim Township will wrap up all 2009 paving projects on major thoroughfares, officials said. Some bridge paving and the Pa. 16 resurfacing project will continue in 2010, according to PennDOT. For nearly a year, traffic has been bottlenecked on Pa. 16 and bypasses around the town.

GREENCASTLE, Pa. - The Antrim Township Board of Supervisors received six applications Friday from those interested in filling the vacancy left by Robert Whitmore, who resigned Aug. 31. Larry L. Eberly , Rodney L. Eberly and Robert H. Schemmerling, all of Greencastle; Dwight Thrush of Chambersburg, Pa.; and John F. Alleman of State Line, Pa., submitted their letters of interest and rsums by the noon deadline. Fred Young III of Greencastle submitted his application after the deadline.

GREENCASTLE, Pa. - A public hearing regarding a proposed 510-unit development along U.S. 11 north of the Maryland state line in Antrim Township, Pa., drew quite a crowd Tuesday. People listened from the hallway as Anne K. Anderson from the engineering firm CEDG of Mechanicsburg, Pa., presented the details of the Molly Pitcher planned residential development, where the 166 single-family houses would start around $350,000. A traffic engineer said there could be 700 vehicles traveling between U.S. 11 and the development during the peak evening hour once all the houses are built.

GREENCASTLE, Pa. -- An 18-year Antrim Township, Pa., supervisor and longtime supporter of emergency services in the Greencastle area died Sunday at Waynesboro (Pa.) Hospital. B.J. Roberts Jr. was 68 and had battled cancer. "He was a visionary to make sure the next generation and generations beyond had a good quality of life," said Ben Thomas Jr., former Antrim Township manager. Roberts, vice president of Medic 2 Advanced Life Support, lost a re-election bid in 2005, the same year he drove a tractor-trailer of donated supplies to the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast.

GREENCASTLE, PA. - The Antrim Township (Pa.) Supervisors have given final approval to a planned residential development already being built in phases on Pa. 16 west of Greencastle across from Calvary Bible Church. Started five years ago on 56 acres, the Rolling Hills development will have approximately 150 homes when fully built in the next few years. It will be a mix of single-family houses, duplexes and town houses with about 30 percent of the land dedicated to open space. The houses from developer Artery of Bethesda, Md., will all rely on wells for water.

GREENCASTLE, Pa. - A $250 million business park envisioned on the west side of Interstate 81 at Exit 3 is moving closer to becoming a reality. The Antrim Township (Pa.) Supervisors on Tuesday gave their blessing to the concept following a presentation by Perini Industrial Land LLC. The business park remains in the early stages of development a decade after being first discussed, but the developer is looking to contact all the state and local agencies involved and soon be able to submit full land development plans.

GREENCASTLE, PA. Antrim Township, Pa., has adopted Conservation by Design standards that aim to preserve open space during the development process. The guidelines split the board of supervisors but were enacted Tuesday with the approval of James Byers, Robert Whitmore and Scott Diffenderfer. Dissenting votes were cast by Sam Miller and Curtis Myers, who had asked for more time to review the ordinance amendments. Antrim Township began looking at Conservation by Design in 2003 and becomes the first municipality in Franklin County, Pa., to adopt the practices.