Date archive for April, 2011
Scoreboard (0)
4/27/11 •
Results for Apr. 19-25: Boys’ Tennis Montrose 5, Mid Valley 0 Boys’ Volleyball Forest City 3, Elk Lake 0 Susquehanna 3, Blue Ridge 0 Western Wayne 3, Mt. View 1 Lacka. Trail 3, Mt. View 1 Susquehanna 3, Forest City 1 W. Wayne 3, Blue Ridge 0 Boys’ Track and Field Blue Ridge 121, Susquehanna [...]
Boro secretary gets jail time (0)
4/27/11 •
BY STACI WILSON A former Montrose borough secretary will spend three months in jail and was ordered to pay nearly $94,000 in restitution back to the Susquehanna County town. Annette Rogers, 53, Montrose, was sentenced in Susquehanna County Court on Thursday to spend three months to two years minus one day in county jail on [...]
Forest City fire claims man (0)
4/27/11 •
BY DENIS J. O’MALLEY and JEREMY G. BURTON Times-Shamrock Writers FOREST CITY – An avid outdoorsman and newspaper columnist was killed early Thursday in a raging fire that investigators believe may have started by a candle. Bill Feddock, 89, died in the house he called home for 60 years. Flames ripped through 723 Delaware St. [...]
Montrose shelter to change hands (0)
4/27/11 •
BY STACI WILSON Just over two years ago, the Pennsylvania SPCA planned to close its Montrose Adoption Center. A group, dedicated to keeping the county’s only animal shelter open, convinced the PSPCA to give the community one more shot, and the shelter stayed in business. In those two years, PSPCA has worked to stabilize operations [...]
Blowout in Bradford County (0)
4/27/11 •
BY LAURA LEGERE Times-Shamrock Writer Thousands of gallons of natural gas drilling waste fluids spilled onto a farm and streams for more than 12 hours Wednesday after a driller in Bradford County lost control of a well late Tuesday. The Atgas 2H well operated by Chesapeake Energy Corp. in LeRoy Twp. blew out during the [...]
Elk Lake proposes $17M budget (0)
4/27/11 •
BY PAT FARNELLI The Elk Lake School Board proposed a $17 million preliminary budget at its meeting Wednesday. Superintendent William Bush said that the district will have to use approximately $300,000 from its reserves, funded by gas well revenues, toward the 2011-12 school year budget. The district expects its gas well royalty checks to increase [...]
Mormons to restore historic site (0)
4/27/11 •
BY ROBERT L. BAKER The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have announced their intentions to develop an historic site in Susquehanna County which played a significant role in the growth of the Church that now has 14 million members. Formerly known as the town of Harmony, the site is significant as the place [...]
Man charged in December hit and run (0)
4/27/11 •
Montrose police leveled charges against a man they believe to be responsible for running down an elderly couple exiting their church after a Christmastime service. Whitman Kirk Dixon, 48, Great Bend, was charged by Cpl. Andrew Genneken in connection with the Dec. 8, 2010 hit and run in front of Holy Name of Mary Church, [...]
Lake Como man sentenced on sex charge (0)
4/27/11 •
BY STACI WILSON A Lake Como man convicted by a Susquehanna County jury in November for sexually assaulting a minor in Gibson Twp. was sentenced Thursday to serve nine – 60 months in prison. Jim Thompson Ortiz, 38, was convicted by a jury on two indecent assault charges and one corruption of minors charge. For [...]
Motorcycle crash kills Meshoppen man (0)
4/27/11 •
A Meshoppen man was killed in a motorcycle crash Saturday evening when he failed to make a turn and hit a utility pole, police said. Ronald T. Fletcher, was traveling east on Rt. 3004, near Beech Grove Rd., in Auburn Twp., when the crash occurred at about 6:35 p.m. Police said Fletcher was an experienced [...]