WEST MARLBOROUGH: Rokeby Road project done

The project to shore up the eroding banks of Buck Run along Rokeby Road is officially completed, supervisor and roadmaster Hugh Lofting Sr. announced with relief at West Marlborough Township's June 5 meeting.
Hugh said he and his son, road crew chief Hugh Lofting Jr., looked back through the township records and discovered that they posted "Road Closed" signs on Rokeby Road all the way back in 1999. 
"We will never be accused of being impulsive in West Marlborough Township," quipped Supervisors' Chairman Bill Wylie.
For years the residents along Rokeby Road and Richard Wilson Drive  have regularly attended township meetings and expressed their concerns about how the pavement was collapsing down the bank. (Lofting Jr. noted that they want the "Road Closed" signs to stay in place.)
The next roads department project will be fixing a crumbling bridge on lightly traveled Runnemede Road. PennDOT specifications call for installing a wider pipe under the bridge, but Mr. Wylie said it and the new guard rail will be well camouflaged and will have an "aesthetically pleasing" appearance.
The supervisors also discussed whether they should require permits for events held in the township's agricultural zone, such as the recent Tough Mudder competition at Plantation Field (part of which is in West Marlborough). Mr. Wylie said that unlike the Pennsylvania Hunt Cup, for instance, the Tough Mudder event "is not a charitable thing." He suggested looking into how other townships regulate similar events and getting advice from the township's land-use planner.
In other business:
1. Mr. Wylie noted with pleasure that 92% of the township tax bills had been paid before May 31, the end of the discount period.
2. Building and zoning officer Charles Cutlip reported that he issued two building permits, one for a new stable at Olympic equestrian Phillip Dutton's Hood Road farm and one for a generator at the Fralicks' home on Clonmell-Upland Road.
3. West Marlborough residents Nancy Truitt, William LaMotte, and Dr. Phoebe Fisher were appointed to the new committee set up to study how the township should fund fire and ambulance services. They will be joined by supervisors Jake Chalfin and Hugh Lofting and will begin meeting this summer.
4. Mr. Lofting reported that the road crew oil-and-chipped Wilson and Hood Roads on June 4 and Lamborntown Road on June 5. They have also been busy mowing road banks and cleaning up after storms.