An excerpt from the Times Leader: Judge Lokuta allows Paragon owner access to site.
WILKES-BARRE – A Luzerne County Judge has issued a preliminary injunction granting the owner of Paragon Adventure Park access to his off-road vehicle park, where the gate was padlocked Monday by a group who wants to build a cargo airport on the site.
Judge Ann Lokuta also barred Gladstone Partners L.P. – the group that wants to build the airport – from using the site until further notice. Her order prohibits Gladstone from denying park owner Kyle Knosp access to his personal property at the park, located partly in Hazle Township and in East Union Township in Schuylkill County…more
In a related Times Leader article from Monday
HAZLETON – Local artist and coffee shop owner John Medashefski announced on Sunday he’ll enter the city’s mayoral race on the Republican ticket.
In the article Medashefski makes a statement about Paragon…
He called the proposed cargo airport “a major asset to this city” and would support the project developers. But, he said, the positive impact on the local economy from Paragon Adventure Park, which would be displaced by the airport development, can’t be ignored. “We need to find another place for them to go with it.”…more
and another from Times Leader
Gladstone possesses Paragon land
HAZLE TWP. – Gladstone Partners L.P. – the group that wants to build a cargo airport on land partially used by Paragon Adventure Park – exercised a possession order and had the gates to the park padlocked on Monday.
Paragon owner Kyle Knosp was locked out of the park and was unable to remove his possessions. “I basically had four days to dismantle my whole business,” Knosp said…more
