Chris Kelly: GO SMELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN

Chris Kelly always has a way with words. We particularly enjoyed his version of a famous Christmas carol which he appropriately named “Go Smell It on the Mountain.”

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The marathon battle over the proposed 50-year expansion of Keystone Sanitary Landfill in Dunmore and Throop raged on, with landfill representatives stooping to threats and rigged council votes and expansion opponents standing up and getting elected.

Mayor Tim Burke’s brave veto of a zoning amendment that would have sold out the borough and the region for the sole benefit of landfill owner Louis DeNaples will have stalwart backing from new voices on council.

GO SMELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN

Go smell it on the mountain,

Over the hills and everywhere

A pall descending over Bucktown

The landfill reeks this morn’

Fire trucks and police stations

Under the borough Christmas tree

From the Grinch up on his mountain

Generosity with a fee

So the neighbors stuck together

Voters rallied to save the day

Ran out the Grinch’s slavish elves

Put expansion on layaway

Go smell it on the mountain

Over the hills, and across this land

Tell the Grinch up on the mountain

The mayor’s veto stands.