Date archive for January, 2011
The week ahead (0)
1/26/11 •
Wednesday, Jan. 26 Wrestling – Elk Lake home against Blue Ridge, 7 p.m. Girls’ Basketball – Elk Lake at Blue Ridge, 6 p.m.; Forest City at Susquehanna, 6 p.m.; Montrose home against Lackawanna Trail, 7:15 p.m.; Mt. View home against Lakeland, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 27 Wrestling – Elk Lake home against Valley View, 7 [...]
Montrose seeks addition to Registry (0)
1/26/11 •
BY STACI WILSON Although several Montrose buildings are already listed on the National Register of Historic Places, a large part of the borough’s center – under the label the Montrose Historic District – is under consideration to be added to the registry as well. The Pennsylvania State Review Board will consider the Montrose Historic District [...]
Elk Lake to limit tax hike (0)
1/26/11 •
BY PAT FARNELLI Elk Lake’s school board met Thursday, and resolved not to raise taxes in excess of a state Department of Education index set at two percent. However, there was much discussion over the decline in government funding, which has dropped about $500,000 since the 2008-9 school year. Bids were awarded for excavation for [...]
St. Joachim Parish closes; church remains open (0)
1/26/11 •
BY ROBERT L. BAKER St. Joachim Parish, which since 1930 included St. Bonaventure Church in Auburn Township before it was closed in 2009, had a closing mass Sunday in Meshoppen. This coming Sunday, St. Joachim Church will be merged with St. Mary of the Assumption to form an Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish, to [...]
Susquehanna board explores options (0)
1/26/11 •
BY HELEN B. FOSTER Correspondent Superintendent Bronson Stone informed the Susquehanna Community school board at its Jan. 19 meeting the school district would be facing uncertainties for the coming year. “Our largest funding source, the state, will be reduced,” Stone said, noting that it could be around $800,000 making it necessary to look at different [...]
‘Gasland’ gets Oscar nomination (0)
1/26/11 •
BY STACI WILSON The documentary “Gasland,” directed by Josh Fox, received an Academy Award nomination Tuesday morning. The film – which deals with natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing impacts – is one of five nominees in the Best Documentary (Feature) category. Dimock Township residents, whose drinking water was affected by nearby drilling, are featured [...]
Nicholson woman faces burglary charges (0)
1/26/11 •
BY STACI WILSON Burglary charges were leveled against a Nicholson woman after she allegedly entered her ex-boyfriend’s Montrose residence and removed items without his knowledge in early December. In addition to burglary, Faith Bronson, 31, was charged by Montrose Borough Policeman Andrew Genneken criminal trespass, theft by unlawful taking and receiving stolen property. The felony [...]
Water pipeline info request costs boro (0)
1/26/11 •
BY STACI WILSON Montrose borough will have to pay over $2,700 if it wants to receive the documents council requested from the Department of Environmental Protection in December. Prompted by concerns over the borough’s water supply council requested the documents before DEP scrapped its plan to have a water pipeline run from Montrose to about [...]
Man charged for dealing heroin (1)
1/26/11 •
BY STACI WILSON Charges leveled against a Great Bend man were bound over for trial Monday to the Susquehanna County Court of Common Pleas. Joshua Calby, 29, waived his preliminary hearing scheduled for Monday in Montrose District Court. According to the affidavit, Calby allegedly sold five bags of heroin to a police informant for $100 [...]
Housing Authority staffers recognized at annual meeting (0)
1/26/11 •
BY HELEN B. FOSTER Correspondent Susquehanna County Housing and Redeveloment Authority board members, Chairman Joe Matis and Treasurer Bob Bartron were recognized at the authority’s annual dinner for their 30 years of service. Executive Director Karen Allen was also praised for her 25 years working for the SCHRA during the after dinner program at Fern [...]