Date archive for November, 2010
DeMann honored at Interfaith’s Thanksgiving (0)
11/23/10 •
BY STACI WILSON The annual Interfaith Thanksgiving dinner, held Nov. 18 at the Montrose Bible Conference, director Rachel Pratt paid homage to the woman who had planned the program in years past. Earlier this year, Shirley DeMann who worked at Interfaith, past away, Pratt said to the nearly 100 people gathered for dinner. Pratt said [...]
Gas well regulation clears final hurdle (0)
11/23/10 •
BY ROBERT SWIFT Times-Shamrock Writer HARRISBURG – A new state regulation to require natural gas drillers to use stronger cement in wells and publicly disclose more information about chemicals used in fracking fluids cleared a final major hurdle Thursday. The Independent Regulatory Review Commission voted unanimously to approve the well-construction regulation, which will take effect [...]
Eagles fall in state tourney (0)
11/17/10 •
BY ASHLEY TEATUM Times-Shamrock Writer When Mountain View boys soccer coach Roger Thomas addressed his players after Saturday’s PIAA Class A quarterfinal, he reminded them of how far they had come. That the season was measured by more than just the Eagles’ run through the playoffs, which ended Saturday in a 2-0 loss to South [...]
Sabers end AA run (0)
11/17/10 •
BY JOBY FAWCETT Times-Shamrock Writer Lakeland cashed in on its opportunities and is headed back to the District 2 Class AA championship. Capitalizing on six Susquehanna turnovers, the second-seeded Chiefs won, 20-3, Friday night in the semifinals. Lakeland displayed an efficient running game, spearheaded by Nichols, who had 119 yards on 16 carries and a [...]
Champs honored at assembly (0)
11/17/10 •
BY KEVIN WOODRUFF Coach Will Squier conveyed a feeling of thankfulness during an assembly held at Elk Lake’s High School gymnasium on Friday to congratulate the Warrior boys’ and girls’ cross country teams on winning the Class AA championship. The Warrior cross country teams took home the team titles from the PIAA championship held in [...]
Locals compete in NCAA Regionals (0)
11/17/10 •
A group of athletes with local connections took to the NCAA Division III Mideast Regional Cross Country race held at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh on Saturday. The men competing ran in an 8-kilometer race, while the girls ran in a 6K. Here is how they finished: Gettysburg University’s Thomas Daniels, a Tunkhannock Area graduate, took [...]
Winter sports start up Friday (0)
11/17/10 •
Athletics teams from Susquehanna County will return to action with the first official winter sports practice taking place on Friday, Nov. 19. Here is a roundup of all the local teams: Boys’ Basketball Blue Ridge’s boys’ basketball team is coached by Brian Woodruff and is entering Lackawanna League Division III coming off a 5-9 league [...]
Mountain View U-14 team captures 5-county cup (0)
11/17/10 •
The Mountain View U-14 boys soccer team went undefeated this year posting a 13-0 record. The team competes in the fall NEPSAY soccer league. Mountain View beat teams from the region including teams from Scranton, Valley View, North Pocono, Lakeland, Forest City, Carbondale, Elk Lake, Dunmore, Wallenpaupak, Mount Pocono, and Tunkhannock. The 5-county cup was [...]
SCCTC expansion a go (0)
11/17/10 •
BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Expansion of the Susquehanna County Career and Technology Center will proceed. With construction bids coming in more than $2 million lower than anticipated, the Elk Lake School Board voted Tuesday to go ahead with the project. “We’ve got a great opportunity with what they’ve come in at,” said board President Chuck [...]
’60 Minutes’ takes aim at shale (0)
11/17/10 •
BY ROBERT L. BAKER A few Dimock Township residents got in the national spotlight on CBS’s “60 Minutes” news program Sunday night, and watched it feeling the public could still be better informed. Television journalist Lesley Stahl examined the pros and cons of America’s shale gas boom in a 15-minute segment of the Emmy Award-winning [...]