Article: SOUTH BETHLEHEM GROUP CHECKING OUT INDUSTRY.(Local)

Byline: Ilaina Jonas Staff writer

Residents of the South Bethlehem area are feeling the pinch of being in the site of any future industrial development.

Though some town residents may see more industry as a way to improve the town's tax base and help offset property taxes, homeowners here are worried about simpler things, such as the air they breathe, said Pat Hamilton, a member of the South Bethlehem Neighborhood Association.

"We can live with what we have," said Hamilton of the Owens-Corning Fiberglas

Corp. and the General Electric Plastics plant nearby. "What we don't know about are those future developments."

The South ...

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