Community Corner

5 Things to Know Today

City and Township Planners; School Board and Council Finance Committee all meet tonight.

Good morning, Bethlehem. Welcome to the working week.

  1. Today is Monday, June 27, 2011, 40 days until Musikfest. On this day in 1925, Jerome Solon Felder was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. to Jewish immigrant parents. Stricken as a boy by polio, his chief inspiration growing up was hearing a Big Joe Turner record. As a teenager, he became one of the first white men to sing blues music professionally, taking the stage name Doc Pomus. But singing would not be how he would make his mark. Working with songwriting partner Mort Shuman, Pomus would write some of the greatest songs of the early years of rock n’ roll: “A Teenager in Love,” “Save the Last Dance for Me,” “This Magic Moment,” and “Turn Me Loose” were all written by the songwriting team of Pomus and Shuman. Pomus also wrote “Lonely Avenue” for Ray Charles and more than 20 songs for Elvis Presley, including “Little Sister,” and “Viva Las Vegas.” Doc Pomus was inducted in the Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, a year after he died of lung cancer.
  2. Postponed from June 9, the city Planning Commission meets at 6 p.m. in Town Hall. The agenda includes a plan to create a new 66-unit housing development on a 12-acre lot along Applebutter Road; the continued redevelopment of the Silk Mill property at 238 W. Goepp St., with the planned re-use of three buildings and construction of a new 3-story apartment building on site; and a request from WLVT-TV, PBS-39 to put signs on the roof of its new building on the SteelStacks campus.
  3. City Council’s Finance Committee meets at 7 p.m. in the Mayor’s Conference Room on the Second Floor of . Progress on the construction of a new emergency medical service facility and the purchase of a new pumper truck for the are among the items on the agenda.
  4. The Bethlehem Area School Board holds its regular monthly meeting at 7 p.m. at auditorium.
  5. The Bethlehem Township Planning Commission meets at 7 p.m. in the . Several preliminary plans and a site plan are among the items on the agenda.


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