PPL sent the Weissport Borough Council a letter advising them that the bridge lights on the Weissport Bridge will be turned off if they do not pay the bill. Ironically, the lights have not worked for at least two years, which is why the borough stopped paying the electric bill for those lights. Numerous phone calls to PPL have been fruitless.

“How do we remedy this?” council member Joe Foster asked. “No one wants to be responsible. I can’t believe that we can’t get ahold of a supervisor or someone to help straighten this out.”

“The problem is,” Tom Ketchledge added, “we don’t know who’s responsible to change the light bulbs.”

“The last time I called,” council President Arland Moyer said, “they gave me pole numbers that don’t match any of the poles.”

Borough Solicitor Gregory Mousseau suggested that council look into converting the poles to solar-powered lights and to advise PPL that Weissport wants to convert them to an alternative energy source and possibly just pay a pole rental fee.

Moyer said he would try to contact PPL again.