Applications for pool passes for the H.D. Buehler Memorial Pool in Tamaqua are available for those in the Panther Valley community for the 2025 season, Lansford Councilwoman Gwyneth Collevechio said.

Tamaqua Borough has done this for many years due to the closure of Lansford’s pool. Pool memberships are available to residents of Lansford, Coaldale, Nesquehoning and Summit Hill.

“We are grateful for all the years they’ve honored this,” she said.

Tamaqua expects this to be a short season, operating in May, June and July, and into early August, she said. Construction on Tamaqua’s new pool could begin in mid to late August.

Other business

• Approved a special event form from the American Fire Co. No. 1 for a food truck festival May 10 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. behind the firehouse on the unit block of East Bertsch Street.

• Approved a special event form from Lansford Alive for Music in the Park concerts in Kennedy Park every Sunday from June through August from 6 to 8 p.m., and every Sunday in September from 5 to 7 p.m., weather permitting.

• Approved two alternate members for the borough’s Civil Service Commission, Keath Lowry and Councilwoman Jennifer Staines.

• Advertise dates for the Civil Service Commission to conduct testing for the position of full time police office. The written exam will be April 7; the oral exam on April 14 and the physical exam on April 21.

• Held off on adopting a policy for police body cameras, as additional needs to be completed.

• Authorized Biros Plumbing to camera the borough’s main sewer line on Jones Street from East Patterson to East Bertsch streets to locate a manhole. The cost is $1,800.