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C-Net Online Programs More Accessible – A Note from C-Net Executive Director, Cindy Hahn

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C-NET, your local Government and Educational Access organization, has been making closed captions available to view on our online programs on cnet1.org since February of 2024. This service has been made available as an option to all of C-NET’s seventeen member organizations.

Harris Township has chosen to support closed captioning of all sponsored programs including the meetings of the Harris Township Board of Supervisors and the Township’s Planning Commission. Captioning on Township programs are also accessible when viewed on several “OTT” platforms including Roku, AppleTV and Amazon Fire.

In addition to Harris Township programs, closed captioning is available on programs sponsored by the State College Area School District, Centre County Government, the Centre Region Council of Governments, Centre Region Parks and Recreation, CATA, Schlow Centre Region Library, and several other C-NET member organizations. Please note that the captions will not be accessible on C-NET’s television channels, but only on the online programs on cnet1.org.

We appreciate Harris Township’s commitment to making programs online more accessible to its residents. For questions regarding closed captioning, or any other C-NET service, please contact C-NET at cnet@cnet1.org or by phone at (814) 238-5031.

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Getting Rid of Your Junk

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There will no longer be Spring and Fall bulk waste weeks. Why? Because the method and timing of Bulk Waste Collection for residents with curbside trash collection has changed. Here’s how to dispose of your bulk waste from now on:

  1. Small bulk items should go in your cart every week.
  2. Large bulk items such as furniture and rugs will be collected “on demand.” You may schedule to have 2 bulk collections per year for a total of 4 large bulk items per year. Those 4 items are included in your refuse service.
  3. Bulk recyclables will also be collected “on demand”. You may schedule to have 2 bulk recyclables collections per year for a total of 4 large recyclable items per year. This includes appliances, covered-device electronics such as televisions and computers, and car tires (4 car tires off the rims = 1 item). Those 4 items are included in your refuse service.

The collection of additional bulk items or bulk recyclables may be scheduled for an extra fee. When you call or email to schedule your collection, customer service will be able to provide a cost for any extra items.

Schedule your bulk collections whenever it is convenient for you by calling 814-826-2722 or emailing cogcs@centrecountyrecycles.org. You will know the exact day your items will be picked up.

Do you have unwanted items that seem too good to go to the landfill? There are a lot of options for getting what you cannot use any more into the hands of someone who can. Go to www.crcog.net/refuse for ways to donate unwanted items. Click on the “Donate, don’t Dump” image.

Centre County Refuse and Recycling Authority – Bulk Items

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Centre County Refuse and Recycling Authority – Bulk Items

Did you know you can take items to the Centre County Refuse and Recycling Authority free of charge and not have to call for bulk collection. Below is a list of items the Authority will accept free of charge or for a minimum fee.

Scrap Metal & Appliances

Appliances, or white goods, are accepted for recycling at the Transfer Station from any Centre County resident for no charge.

They will accept the following items:

– Air conditioners and dehumidifiers

– Clothes washing and drying machines

– Dish washers

– Metal pots and pans

– Furnaces and electrical heaters

– Water heaters

– Refrigerators and freezers

– Stoves, ovens, microwaves

– Helium tanks

They will NOT accept the following items:

– Sealed units (propane bottles)

– Medical lab & hospital scrap machinery

– Gasoline & fuel tanks

– Drums, barrels, paint cans and tar buckets

– Pipe or boilers wrapped in insulation

– Lighting fixtures

– Any scrap material containing hazardous waste material

Tires

 The Centre County Recycling and Refuse Authority accepts tires for recycling.

Residents delivering personal automotive and small truck tires from their vehicles will be accepted at the following rates: $84.00 per ton/$25.00 minimum.

Please call their office at 814-238-7005 with questions. For a complete list of items that can be recycled, please click here: https://www.centrecountyrecycles.org/recycling

Shentel GLO Fiber Construction Update

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Throughout 2024, Harris Township staff worked with Shentel Communications LLC to design a project that would allow the company to install cable utility infrastructure throughout the Township. Where overhead lines exist, Shentel is utilizing existing poles to run their lines; where no overhead lines exist, Shentel must excavate within the street rights-of-way or within other existing easements to install their cables underground along with small above ground accessory structures.

Harris Township started issuing permits to Shentel in November 2024 for the areas that require groundwork. Shentel has been doing that work for about four months. As part of the permitting process, Shentel must permanently restore the areas within Township street rights-of-way that they in any way disturb and they must warrant such work for two years following Township inspection and approval of the restoration. Permanent restoration cannot take place until after winter when grass can grow. Township staff will walk each disturbed area with Shentel representatives when work in those areas is complete and restoration appears to be compliant with Township standards. Staff will also periodically check those areas for the following two years in case any warranty work is required.

If residents should have any questions about the project, they can contact the Township Office by calling 814-466-6228 or they can email at zoning@harristownship.org.

Reminder: ATVs Prohibited on Township Streets

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The Township has received numerous reports of individuals operating ATVs (side-by-sides, four wheelers, unregistered dirt bikes, etc.) on Township roadways. As a reminder, the use of ATVs is prohibited on all Township roadways.

Board of Supervisors Statement on the State College Area Connector Project

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The Harris Township Board of Supervisors met with the Potter Township Board of Supervisors on October 4, 2022 to hear the concerns of our residents related to the State College Area Connector Project. The Harris Township Board of Supervisors offer the following comments on the PEL study and the proposed alignments that are moving forward for further environmental review.

 

Roadway Design

As it stands now, there are no winners with the three alignments that are moving forward. Residents will lose their homes and their livelihoods. Farms will be lost. The unique rural character of our area will be forever altered.

While we acknowledge the safety issues that exist along the Route 322 corridor, we are opposed to using a limited access super highway to address these concerns. We fail to see how the proposed super highway will accomplish any of the stated safety goals for this project – lower speeds and safer highway design.

We urge PennDOT to reconsider the design of this roadway. Instead of a limited access super highway, we urge you to design a context sensitive roadway. To us, that means a four-lane divided highway with minimal medians, roundabouts or other left hand turn alternatives and, most importantly, a reduced speed limit through the corridor.

We point to the Route 41 project in Chester County. Route 41 is a 22-mile-long highway in southeastern Pennsylvania that connects Lancaster to Wilmington, Delaware. Route 41 runs along a two-lane undivided road called Gap Newport Pike, passing through mostly rural areas of Chester and Lancaster Counties. The roadway and the area have many similarities to the Route 322 corridor.

In the Route 41 project, PennDOT backed off of earlier plans to install a limited access super highway and instead is moving forward with a context sensitive design that incorporates roundabouts and other safety features.

If roundabouts and context sensitive design can be used in other parts of Pennsylvania, why is it not being considered here?

Methodology

We continue to question the methodology that is being used in this project. We’ve repeatedly asked that the Centre Region’s Climate Action Goals and the state’s Climate Action Plan be considered as part of the process. We’ve been told that these items will be considered during the environmental review. It is flawed and contrary to good planning to not consider these impacts now.

Similarly, we continue to question why this project is being planned in a vacuum. The US 15 bypass project and other projects in the state will affect truck traffic traveling through our area. Why are these projects not being considered as part of the planning process?

We also question the weight that will be assigned to the impacts noted in the PEL study. How will impacts to residents, businesses and agricultural land be weighted?

If PennDOT is so confident in the results of the PEL, why won’t you show your work? Greater transparency is needed to improve the public’s confidence in the state’s ability to plan and build the appropriate roadway for our area.

Timeline

We urge PennDOT to consider the residents, businesses and farmers along this corridor who now must live in limbo while the project proceeds to environmental review. These residents are unable to make decisions about their homes, businesses and farms until PennDOT makes a decision on the roadway alignment. Property values are being impacted while PennDOT makes everyone play a waiting game. For the good of our community, we urge you to be transparent, to communicate with impacted residents and to move forward in a timely fashion. F

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