Date archive for March, 2011
Local girls featured in all-star game (0)
3/30/11 •
BY MARTY MYERS Times-Shamrock Writer A group of Susquehanna County girls’ varsity basketball players have been selected to play in the Lackawanna League senior all-star game set for Thursday night at Forest City. Montrose’s Sam Abbott, Katelyn Spellman and Amelia DiPhillips, Mountain View’s Kayla Kazmierski and Forest City’s Cassie Erdmann and Katie Yale will all [...]
Local tracksters compete at next level (0)
3/30/11 •
BY KEVIN WOODRUFF A pair of former local track and field stars have stepped up their game competing for NCAA Division I programs. Elk Lake graduate Ryne Carney is running for Bucknell University, while Montrose Area graduate Julia Koloski is competing for the University of Pittsburgh. Carney, 20, of Dimock, now a sophomore, is a [...]
DeBoer breaks 34-year-old record (0)
3/30/11 •
Sophomore Cody DeBoer broke the 34-year-old school record in the long jump with a NCAA automatic qualifying mark on Saturday afternoon in Richmond, Va., as the Shippensburg University men’s outdoor track and field squad finished the Fred Hardy Invitational with several solid performances. Ship head coach Dave Osanitsch authorized his jumpers to try a long [...]
Meteors hitting the track (0)
3/30/11 •
BY KEVIN WOODRUFF Montrose Area’s boys’ and girls’ track and field teams return to competition after a solid 2010 season where the girls’ team finished with a 5-1 overall record and the boys’ team was 1-5. Coach Sean Castellani is hoping that the Meteor girls can continue on a strong path despite losing senior state [...]
Local archers heading to nationals (0)
3/30/11 •
Blue Ridge High School and Choconut Valley Elementary’s National Archery in the Schools teams both qualified to attend the upcoming national championships in Louisville, Kentucky. The top schools in each of the three divisions – elementary, middle school and high school – automatically qualified for nationals, taking place May 13-14. In addition, those teams that [...]
School sports on chopping block (0)
3/30/11 •
BY KEVIN WOODRUFF With looming state budget cuts, it isn’t only academics that could suffer from economic shortages. Local school districts have also been pondering ways to decrease costs associated with high school and junior high athletics. Various ideas have been tossed around with mixed response, including introducing a “pay to play” model, cutting junior [...]
The week ahead (0)
3/30/11 •
Wednesday, Mar. 30 Baseball – Elk Lake home against Athens, 4 p.m.; Forest City at Wallenpaupack, 4 p.m.; Montrose at Dunmore, 4 p.m.; Mt. View home against Lakeland, 4:30 p.m. Softball – Elk Lake home against Athens, 4 p.m.; Forest City at Wallenpaupack, 4 p.m.; Montrose at Dunmore, 4 p.m. Track and Field – Elk [...]
Ex-priest gets prison time for assaults (0)
3/30/11 •
BY STACI WILSON An 84-year-old, deposed Episcopal priest will spend four and one-half years behind bars for sexually assaulting two teenage boys more than a decade ago in his Susquehanna County home. The ruling delivered Thursday to Ralph Johnson, of Gibson Twp., is likely a “death sentence,” said his attorney John Petorak after the hearing. [...]
Census reveals ups, downs and questions (0)
3/30/11 •
BY ROBERT L. BAKER More 2010 U.S. Census data was released last week showing the gains and losses in Susquehanna County from when the census was taken in 2000 to April 1 of last year. Overall, the county showed a net growth of 1,118 residents- an 0.7 percent increase from 42,238 in 2000 to 43,356 [...]
Cop nearly hit in traffic stop (0)
3/30/11 •
BY STACI WILSON A Clifford-area man nearly hit a Pennsylvania State Trooper when he pulled away from the officer during a March 5 traffic stop. Corporal Jeffrey Burman pulled over Joseph Snedeker, 26, of Clifford, on a traffic violation on Rt. 370, Ararat Twp. When the officer approached the stopped Chevrolet Aveo, Snedeker sped away [...]