Date archive for July, 2010
Montrose Legion 1-3 for week (0)
7/07/10 •
The Montrose American Legion baseball team lost a home doubleheader to Delaware Valley on Saturday, lost in an interleague wood bat game with West Scranton at home on Wednesday and took a 14-5 victory over Honesdale at Blue Ridge on Tuesday night. On Saturday, the Montrose Sluggers faced a 16-4 loss in the first game, [...]
PGC banding geese (0)
7/07/10 •
Pennsylvania Game Commission biologists were busy last week scoring the Northeast Region of the state looking for resident Canadian geese. PGC biologist Kevin Wenner, who headed the Northeast Region banding project, said that each year biologists take to local ponds and lakes to roundup geese for banding. The game commission chooses early summer for the [...]
Pompey takes his first modified win at Penn Can (0)
7/07/10 •
Penn Can Speedway celebrated the Independence Day weekend with another night of great racing for the huge holiday crowd that saw two first time winners visit Victory Lane. In the Warner’s Gas Service sponsored modified main event, Dan Pompey of Nicholson won his first-ever modified event at the speedway. In the companion super late model [...]
Six graduate from drug treatment court (0)
7/07/10 •
As President Judge Russell Shurtleff handed plaques to the latest graduates of the Wyoming / Sullivan Counties Drug Treatment Court on Thursday, he said they were a group to be admired. “We have six individuals tonight that we’re all very proud of,” Shurtleff said to the more than 100 people gathered at the Triton Hose [...]
SRBC says Cabot withdrawal site OK (0)
7/07/10 •
Despite drought conditions in parts of Bowmans and Tunkhannock Creeks, the Susquehanna River Basin Commission said Friday there was no cause for alarm that at two locations, significant water withdrawals are continuing to support the gas drilling industry. SRBC inspectors were at an Eaton Township site about a mile south of Tunkhannock on Friday. They [...]
Montrose celebrates the Fourth (0)
7/07/10 •
“Pride, spirit and hard work produce excellence” was the motto adopted years ago by the Montrose Marching Unit. And that dedication was apparent as over 100 former MMU alumni marched in the Independence Day parade in Montrose on July 5. Louise Smith, of South Montrose and former band parent, noted the band’s connection to honoring [...]
Pushing for pipelines as utilities (0)
7/07/10 •
Scranton native Tom Karam is buying the pipeline company spearheading the effort to have natural gas gathering lines declared utilities, subject to regulation but able to condemn land by eminent domain. Figuring that local roots, pipeline experience and knowledge of state regulations will help the nascent industry gain legitimacy, Karam is scheduled to close on [...]
Planning commission grants gas-related approvals (0)
7/07/10 •
A few conditional preliminary approvals, all connected to the natural gas industry, were granted by the Susquehanna County Planning Commission at the June 29 meeting. Gas Search Drilling Services is looking to tear down about half of the Brunges Pallet Mill to make room for a parking lot at the site. The planning commission granted [...]
Hospice of the Sacred Heart now in county (0)
7/07/10 •
Hospice of the Sacred Heart was welcomed to Susquehanna County with a reception held at the Community Foundation building on Thursday, June 24. Foundation Chairman Earle Wootton, his wife June and Foundation President Peter Quigg along with a friend of Sacred Heart Donna Cosmello, Chief Executive Officer Diane Baldi and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Ralph [...]
Susquehanna board passes professional dress code (0)
7/07/10 •
Susquehanna Community school board last Wednesday approved a memorandum of understanding between the district and Susquehanna Community Education Association related to a Professional Educator Dress Code. According to superintendent Bronson Stone, the district did not have a formal dress code, and what was generated was a collaborative effort of the union and administration. The code [...]