Big crowd at Thomson Township meeting told issue not on agenda

Nearly 50 Thomson Township residents crowded into the town hall Thursday, Dec. 5, worried the board of supervisors was going to address the long-delayed private roads and shared driveway resolutions. In the end, board chairwoman Ruth Janke addressed the issue only once — at the start of the meeting — and that was to tell residents they were misled by a social media post. The controversial resolutions were not on the agenda and wouldn’t be discussed.

An update to the township’s road policy and engineering guidelines that was on the agenda under “old business,” didn’t come up during the meeting...