Date archive for June, 2011
Anderson sentenced in sex crimes (0)
6/29/11 •
BY STACI WILSON A Great Bend man will spend 150-400 months in prison for sexually assaulting a child in June 2009 and other sex related crimes. Duane Anderson, 34, was ordered Thursday by Judge Kenneth Seamans to serve concurrent sentences on six counts that originated in three separate cases. Two of the cases were handled [...]
BR adopts budget with tax cut (0)
6/29/11 •
BY STACI WILSON Property owners in the Blue Ridge school district will see a drop in this year’s tax bills. The district’s final 2011-12 budget of $16,333,906 was approved by the board at the Monday (June 27) meeting. The tax drop reflects a decrease to 44.89 mills, a one mill reduction from the 2010 rate. [...]
Child rapist sentenced (0)
6/29/11 •
BY STACI WILSON The mother of a girl who was repeatedly raped by an Apolacon Twp. man spoke to the court before he was sentenced to serve a minimum of 13 years in prison for his crimes. Michael Ray Walter, 37, was sentenced to serve 10 years for the rape of a child and also [...]
Attempted homicide case moves forward (0)
6/29/11 •
BY STACI WILSON Attempted homicide charges lodged in a May 20 shooting outside a New Milford bar were bound over for trial Thursday following a preliminary hearing in district court. In addition to the attempted homicide charge, Jason Aronowitz, 42, New Milford, aggravated assault charges and possession of an instrument of crime with intent were [...]
Elk Lake adopts budget (0)
6/29/11 •
BY STACI WILSON Elk Lake School Board approved the district’s 2011-12 $17.4 million budget at its Thursday, June 23, meeting. The operating budget for the upcoming year is about $1/2 million less than this year’s budget. With a district that draws students from two counties, the board also set the tax rates – with no [...]
County alarm system changing (0)
6/29/11 •
BY STACI WILSON A new company will be monitoring and servicing the county alarm system. The commissioners voted, at the June 22 meeting, to contract with T.N. Pyeron Service, of Dunmore, to handle the trouble and fire alarms in the courthouse complex. The yearly fee for the service is $264. The alarm system had been [...]
R&R Fireworks shot the old-fashioned way (0)
6/29/11 •
BY VIRGINIA CODY Fireworks and the 4th of July go hand in hand. And the Montrose Area Chamber of Commerce keeps with the tradition with a pyrotechnic display slated to cap of Independence Day festivities. The company contracted for the show once again this year is R & R Fireworks, a family-owned outfit from Houtzdale [...]
Court orders seizure of Lonzinski Construction collateral (0)
6/29/11 •
BY STACI WILSON Property used as loan collateral by the owner of a Susquehanna County construction company with Peoples Neighborhood Bank was seized Friday after a hearing in front of President Judge Kenneth Seamans. On the stand, PNB Chief Credit Officer Joseph Ferretti said the bank considered two loans made to Scott Lonzinski, owner of [...]
Susquehanna bridge project delayed (0)
6/29/11 •
Helen B. Foster Correspondent Members of Susquehanna Borough Council heard bad news concerning the Main Street Bridge work at its June 21 meeting. According to Council President David Scales, a PennDot representative notified the borough the work on Main Street has been set back one year with the work to be completed in two and [...]
Mike Bedell named ‘Athlete of the Year’ (0)
6/22/11 •
BY JOBY FAWCETT, Times-Shamrock Writer As Mike Bedell emerged and headed for the home stretch at the District 2 Class AA cross country race, everything seemingly was going to plan. Then the unthinkable. He collapsed. A highly trained, well-conditioned athlete, lying there on the damp terrain of the home course he had dominated throughout his [...]