Council discusses steps to replace downed street lights downtown
KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL FILE - A street light sits smashed on the sidewalk on North Main Street in Shenandoah in January of 2024.
SHENANDOAH – After another recently refurbished street light was taken down in a crash downtown, borough council is seeking accountability.
The downtown street lights were purchased about 15 years ago through a streetscape grant and were refurbished within the past year as all street lights in town were converted to LED.
Since then, three lights have been taken down.
In January, one in the 200 block of North Main Street was downed by an out-of-control tractor trailer sliding down the Heights Hill in a snowstorm.
Another was taken down by a man outside the Shenandoah One Stop Shop.
Sunday, a car jumped the sidewalk outside A-to-Z Food Mart and took another down.
“These things are expensive,” Council President Joe Boris said. “Whoever knocks these things down, we’ve got to make them accountable. I don’t know if it’s insurance, I don’t care if we have to go to [Magisterial District Judge Anthony] Kilker.”
“They knock them down and they walk away,” Boris added. “There’s no consequences.”
“Insurance might cover it,” Solicitor Shane Hobbs said.
Borough Manager Tony Sajone said PPL Electric Utilities, which owns all but two blocks of the lights, said there is a three year wait for them.
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