Last evening I attended a meeting of the Lower Towamensing Township Board of Supervisors. It began with Chair Brent Green calling for a moment of silence in memory of the three innocent people killed at the Ross Township meeting earlier this month. Ross Township is in Monroe County, which adjoins Carbon.
The meeting went down hill from there. In the period reserved for comments from the audience, an older man stood up and, in a rambling speech, talked about the “assholes” at the previous meeting. A former supervisor went into a tirade and warned the supervisors, in what I thought was a threatening manner, “You know what happened in Ross Township.”
Chairman Brent Green told him “That’s enough.” Green warned him that any more comments like that and he would be asked to leave the meeting. He settled down, but I learned that he disrupts almost every monthly township meeting.
Later, another guy in the audience verbally attacked the townships’s zoning officer. In the course of his remarks he used the “f word.” He was reprimanded by the Chair and apologized, but his whole tone was completely inappropriate for a public meeting.
I am sorry to say that the last two guys were obviously Pennsylvania Dutch, making me ashamed of my ethnicity. I don’t know what happened to civility, but it has obviously left Lower Towamensing Township.
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