Date archive for July, 2011
Area’s Grow once presided over Congress (0)
7/06/11 •
BY ROBERT L. BAKER Wyoming County Press Examiner When Galusha Grow was made the grand marshal of last year’s July 4th parade in Montrose, Susquehanna County Historical Society curator Betty Smith said almost no one knew who he was. That would not be the case 150 years ago Monday, when Grow was elected by his [...]
MA board approves $23M budget (0)
7/06/11 •
BY PAT FARNELLI The Montrose Area school board approved a final budget of nearly $23 million Wednesday evening at a special public meeting. According to Superintendent Michael Ognosky, the $22,993,898 budget was $1,318,000 less than the previous year’s. There was no increase in millage or taxes. The district’s Capital 22 fund has a remainder of [...]
Institute promotes electric car to head of class (0)
7/06/11 •
BY VIRGINIA CODY David Turock gets 404 miles per gallon with his new car, the Chevy Volt. That kind of efficiency is one of the best reasons for consumers to opt for an all electric or electric hybrid car when they’re ready to trade in their old one, the 1977 Keystone College graduate said. “With [...]
Daniels, Busby declare Independence (0)
7/06/11 •
BY ROBERT L. BAKER Wyoming County Press Examiner Tunkhannock’s Thomas Daniels, 22, took the 10K portion and New Yorker Brian Busby, 18, the 5K portion of the KLR Race for Independence in Montrose on Monday, July 4. Daniels, a 22-year-old recent Gettysburg College grad finished the 10K race in a time of 36:16, more than [...]
Darling repeats as ‘Player of Year’ (0)
7/06/11 •
BY MARTY MYERS Times-Shamrock Writer As The Scranton Times-Tribune Player of the Year in her junior season, some wondered what more Elk Lake’s Brooke Darling could bring to the table for her final campaign. With the pitcher’s rubber moved back 3 feet, it didn’t seem likely she could dominate the way she did in posting [...]
LL all-star action underway (0)
7/06/11 •
Only one Little League team from across Susquehanna County remains in a potential District 15 title hunt, while others have either been eliminated or are now participating in consolation tournaments. Susquehanna County’s 10-11 boys remained alive in District 15 action as pool play continued yesterday at Lawton as they faced Athens and on Thursday, they [...]
Congdon invited to Team USA fly fishing qualifier (0)
7/06/11 •
BY KEVIN WOODRUFF Wyoming County Press Examiner A local fly fisherman was recently invited to compete in an American Cup Fly Fishing Competition. Wesley Congdon, 21, of Dundaff, a rising senior at Penn State University in State College and former member of the Team USA Youth Fly Fishing team, unfortunately had to decline the offer. [...]
Rudalavage opens PennCan weekend with a bang (0)
7/06/11 •
Alan Rudalavage would inherit the lead during a lap four caution when race leader Mike Colsten headed pitside with a left rear flat tire. Then Rudalavage of Newton Lake, would pull away from the pack to take his first win at Penn Can Speedway this season in the 40 lap event. Tracy Gregory took the [...]
Marco stepping up his game (0)
7/06/11 •
BY KEVIN WOODRUFF Susquehanna linebacker Nick Marco will step up his game, both academically and athletically, in the fall when he begins classes at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Marco, 18, of Susquehanna, said that he ended up choosing Carnegie Mellon because of their engineering program. In addition to sending transcripts and S.A.T. scores to [...]
Local sluggers named all-stars (0)
7/06/11 •
A pair of Elk Lake senior softball players and one Blue Ridge player have been named to the Scranton Times-Tribune softball All-Region team. Elk Lake’s Gabby Baltzley, a senior catcher, had acrobatic skills on pop fouls on display in the state playoffs and was a solid backstop who rarely gave teams an extra base. She [...]