By
ERIC SLAGLE Daily News Staff Writer
eslagle@dailynewsemail.com It was a little like one of those
home repair shows on TV where a client, an interior designer and a
contractor all give a place the onceover mapping out where the
bathrooms, utility rooms and study will be before the big renovation
project gets under way. Only this wasn;t the DIY Network. The planning
session took place in an unused section of the Curves building along
Route 51 in Forward
Township Friday and the participants were laying out a
district court office rather than a dream home. Magisterial District
Judge Beth Scagline Mills, District Justice Courts Manager Nancy L.
Galvach, the owner of the building Richard K. Lewis and others trekked
back and forth between the rooms of the commercial space that will
become home to the court which is presently located in Elizabeth
Township come June 1. The space still
contains the trappings of a beauty salon that once used the site. A
tanning bed occupies a closet that probably will become a waiting room
for prisoners and a massage table sits in an area likely to be used as
the courtroom. What probably will become the general waiting area for
the court presently sports purple-painted walls. Galvach, who is in
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Continued from Page A1 The court also will feature a meeting room for witness interviews. Mills said she isa little dismayed that the county was not able to find anything more centrally located, but I am looking forward to better serving the residents of the district with more space. I am definitely relieved that victims of domestic abuse, rape or other crimes will not have to remain in the same room as the defendants,she said. Though the new office may be a little farther out for some, for others it will be closer. At a Forward Township supervisors meeting this week, Supervisor Tom Headley noted residents in his area no longer would have to go all the way into Elizabeth Township for court. The office is located just off the northbound lane of Route 51 near the Guffey Lane intersection. The north side of the building houses a Curves Fitness Center, which is run by Lewis wife, Melissa Lewis. She |
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