(Courtesy of The Kepner Family)

We honor our Mayors in this column from time to time, but I want to remember Bill for much more than his 8 years of public service to our borough. However, first I want to also honor him for his war service during WWII. Even more, he was in the 4th Infantry Division which was one of our elite divisions to hit the Normandy coast on June 6, 1944, D-Day. Thus he indeed was one of the “Finest Generation”! We all salute you Bill!

As Mayor, Bill served from January 1982 to December 1989, serving two terms with great distinction.

(What Mayor served longest in Beavertown? Answer next month.)

Answer to Last Month

We have reported bear sightings in Beavertown on several occasions over the past several years. The last was in the 12-8 issue of August, 2004 telling that Ivan Middleswarth saw one on July 11th.

Before that we reported a bear on North Center Street spotted by Paul Mattern on 8-8-1995 at 10:30 PM; another on 8-22-1996 at 7:30 PM by Wayne Moyer on Sassafras Avenue; a third was treed on 6-10-2002 at the rear of the day care center.