A vast number of topics were covered at Tuesday's Bowmanstown Borough Council meeting, including a major roadwork project and recent trouble at the local fire company.

At the meeting's outset, council opened the bids received for its much-anticipated Oak Street project, which covers about 350 feet of the street.The four bids opened and read were from Bruce George Paving & Excavating Inc. of Kunkletown, Lehigh Asphalt Paving & Construction Co. of Tamaqua, Livengood Excavators of Walnutport, and S&G Asphalt Service of Slatington.Council unanimously accepted the apparent low bidder, which was Bruce George Paving & Excavating at $53,107.50, assuming that, upon the engineer's review, the bid is valid.Next up, two guests from the Bowmanstown Volunteer Fire Company told council a story that ran in the TIMES NEWS on March 18 about the fire company being cited for gambling was "completely exaggerated" and that they were present to answer any questions or concerns the council might have about the incident.Fire Company President Bruce Koch, who is also its assistant chief, and Chief Mike Spairana said that though the paper had offered to run a retraction, they had turned it down, noting that doing so sometimes "just muddies the waters more."They explained that the fire company had actually received only three violations, not what was previously reported in the TIMES NEWS, based on a release from the Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement.When asked what the violations were for, Koch said one occurred during "baseball sign-up," when the doors to the social hall were left open and a bartender mistakenly served beer to two nonmembers, who were undercover Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement officers.The two other violations, he said, involved two small games of chance that, while completely legal in and of themselves, had been slightly altered, thus causing them to no longer be in conformity with the law (state act and Title 61 of the Pa. Code).When asked what the consequences of the violations might be, Koch said the company will definitely pay a fine, but that he was fairly certain it would not lose its liquor license.Koch later said that, "We're accepting that responsibility" and that steps have been taken to "correct the issues that they brought forward."In other news, the council unanimously adopted an ordinance to enact the intermunicipal water service agreement between the Bowmanstown Borough Authority, the Borough of Bowmanstown and Lower Towamensing Township.The agreement is needed so the authority can be provided an extension to the Tri-Valley water system, which it recently purchased and which already services residences in nearby Stone Ridge Manor, a development located in Lower Towamensing Township.