From the Times-News:

At the Jim Thorpe Comprehensive Planning Committee’s regularly scheduled meeting Wednesday, Penn Forest Township Supervisor’s Chairman Paul Montemuro discussed the changes development has brought to Penn Forest.

“When the new Census information comes out, everyone’s going to be surprised to see that Penn Forest is the most heavily populated municipality in the county,” he said.

Montemuro went on to say that 1,000 new houses have been added to the township every year for a number of years. This means that the demographics of the township have changed rapidly, it is no longer the sleepy backwoods area that many longtime residents of Carbon County remember it as.

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