Callahan May Run for Northampton County Executive
Bethlehem Mayor John Callahan may run for countywide post next year
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Northampton County Dealing With Gracedale Asbestos
Stoffa says administration taking issue "so seriously," but workers say it's not enough.
Members of Northampton County's employee safety committee are asking the county to deal with asbestos in the basement of the Gracedale nursing home. On Thursday night, one of those workers, Ted Harris, told county council he thinks the county isn't taking employee concerns seriously. "We are experiencing people who, instead of hearing of what we have to say, are listening for what they want to hear," Harris told the Express-Times. But County Executive John Stoffa says the county isn't ignoring the issue. "Believe me, we've taken this issue so seriously," he said, noting that the county has already spent $800,000 on asbestos clean-up at the nursing home. According to the Express-Times, the clean-up -- involving workshops and storage areas…
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Stoffa: More Northampton County Checks Forged
County Executive John Stoffa says forged checks were used in Georgia and South Carolina.
For the second time in the last 12 months, Northampton County is the apparent victim of a check forgery scheme. Last year, eight people were charged with forging county checks and cashing them in local stores, stealing more than $18,000. The accused apparently made phony checks from the county's criminal division bail account, something that was uncovered during an audit last February. And now, a different group of people is trying the same thing, only this time in South Carolina and Georgia, County Executive John Stoffa reported to County Council Thursday night. Stoffa said Easton police are investigating the scheme, which had already netted the people involved $3,800. He noted that the forgeries weren't very good ones. "They spelled '…
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JOHN RAMOS
1:24 pm on Sunday, February 5, 2012
STOFFA IS THE BOOK KEEPER SO THE BUCK STOPS WITH HIM ITS HIS FAULT FOR THIS ANTIQUATED CHECKING SYSTEM TO BEGIN WITH GET INTO THE PRESENT NOT THE 60 S ANYMORE STOFFA WAKE UP STUPID more ›
Friday, September 30, 2011
Northampton County Chief Proposes 9.3 Percent Tax Hike
Stoffa's budget proposal includes $7.2 million to balance Gracedale's books.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
With Gracedale Decided, County Asks 'Now What?'
One option: Put money from the 2001 bond issue back into the nursing home.
Most of the money from the $111 million bond issue Northampton County floated in 2001 has been spoken for. But some members of county council want to use what's left -- close to $1.6 million -- on Gracedale, the nursing home voters have just decided needs to remain publicly owned. With that decision comes a dilemma: the county can't sell Gracedale as planned, but it also had only budgeted $3 million for the home for this year. "I don’t think it’s going to be enough," County Executive John Stoffa told council's finance committee Wednesday. He's at work on finding a new management company to come in and run the Upper Nazareth nursing home, but doesn't anticipate awarding a bid to someone to do that work until August. Stoffa said the county …
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DebMel
8:53 am on Thursday, February 9, 2012
The issue of cutting staff at county nursing homes is not limited to Gracedale. I have a sister who has worked at Sunnyview in Butler county (western PA) for over 20 years as an LPN, and the concerns are similar. It has been years since she has had the luxury of taking her break, she literally runs through the day, often cannot finish everything she needs to do during her shift (gets reprimands … more ›