The Lights of Armstrong Park (Weekly Photo Gallery)

The Baldwin-Whitehall Patch publishes a weekly photo gallery of interesting and/or important images caught around our area. Any photo taken from a spot in ,  or  qualifies; though, we'll occasionally accept photos that are right on our neighbors' borders as well.

For last week's gallery, B-W Patch Editor Bob Healy submitted on the border of Baldwin and Whitehall boroughs.

For this week's gallery, Healy snapped photos of Baldwin Township's after nightfall on Wednesday, July 13. (View the images to the right of this page.)

The Armstrong Park lights have been a hot topic at the past two Baldwin Township Board of Commissioners meetings ( and ).

Resident Robert Hoffman, of 616 Highview Road, brought a petition with him to July's board meeting. Hoffman said that approximately 40 area residents are in opposition to the amount of lighting in Armstrong Park.

This week's gallery shows some of that lighting.

Hoffman contends that not only is the illumination at Armstrong Park too great—he has called it "luminous pollution"—but that it is unnecessary since the park closes at dark.

Board President Eileen Frisoli said that Baldwin Township received a grant to use money specifically aimed at lighting the park and that lighting the park improves safety since it makes walking through it easier at night. Frisoli said that the township cannot repurpose that grant money since it came for a specific purpose.

Several board members confirmed that the park closes at dark but that the cannot monitor the park 24 hours per day to ensure that no one enters it at night.

Jane McMullen, a resident of 533 Highview and a former Baldwin Township commissioner, likes having lights in Armstrong Park in order to deter crime.

Submit your photo(s) to robert.healyiii@patch.com to be in our weekly gallery! The photo(s) can be of pretty much anything or anyone, but the Baldwin-Whitehall Patch editorial team reserves the right to publish only those photos that we choose. Be sure to tell us who is in the picture(s), what's going on and when and where it/they was/were taken. Also, please tell us who captured the photo(s).