Jones Township Board of Supervisors typically meet the second Monday of each month at 7:00 pm. The meetings are held in the kitchen of the Community Center on Faries Street. Meeting dates may be changed to avoid holidays or other occasions and will be advertised in the Johnsonburg Press.
The Jones Township Municipal Authority meets at the Authority headquarters next to the Post Office on Marvin Street on the third Wednesday at 7:00 pm.
Photo Courtesy of Ridgway Record
Jones Township Supervisors Jim Elinski (standing), Laurie Storrar(right) and Deb Shaffer duck when a bat flew into the room during a recent township meeting.
At approximately 8:06 p.m., a small brown bat flew into the meeting room through a crack in the township office's kitchen sink drain. It darted wildly across the room, repeatedly diving low and causing everyone to jump up from the table, duck, move away, or try to shoo it out the windows. Occasionally the bat would land on a light, wall, or beam, and hang there for a while, but never took the opportunity to fly out of the three open windows. Eventually, supervisors finished their meeting standing up, trying to ignore the bat. They left the room and locked the bat inside with the windows open, hoping it would leave. It did.