Date archive for February, 2012
Cabot jumpstarts EMHS campaign (0)
2/29/12 •
BY STACI WILSON With earthwork underway for Phase I of the new Endless Mountains Health Systems facility, just east of Montrose, a natural gas producing company has stepped up in an effort to raise funds to complete the next phase of the project. Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation announced Tuesday, a pledge of $1 million [...]
Read Across America (0)
2/29/12 •
Pennsylvania State Representative Sandra Major reads to Elk Lake Elementary students Monday as part of Read Across America week. From left, in front, are Sandra Major, Carli Sherman, Sadie Warner, Jessica Ely, Emily Miller, second row, Megan McIntire, Trevor Graham, Matthew Mowry, Aaron Fish and Justice Johnson, back row, Addison Noble, Sierra Knight, Nicholas Oruska.
Boy, 11, killed in car wreck (0)
2/29/12 •
BY STEVE MCCONNELL Times-Shamrock Writer An 11-year-old boy was killed in a crash in Susquehanna County on Sunday. State police said that Daniel Robert Edsell ofEndicott,N.Y., a passenger in a car driven by Michele Lee Tyner, 28, also of Endicott, died in the5:40 p.m.crash on Route 267 near theNew Yorkborder. Tyner, was turning into a [...]
Testimony reveals new details in double murder (0)
2/29/12 •
BY DENIS J. O’MALLEY Times-Shamrock Writer A Susquehanna County man could face the death penalty after two counts of criminal homicide filed against him in the fatal shooting of a pair of Army veterans in Great Bend Twp. earlier this month were bound over for trial Wednesday. Lloyd Thomas, 45, of Hallstead, allegedly shot Gilberto [...]
Montrose likely to change rules for cameras (0)
2/29/12 •
BY STACI WILSON Montrose Borough Council is likely to change some of its recently adopted rules regarding the use of recording devices during meetings. A preliminary injunction was filed Monday against the borough by Lisa Barr, a freelance journalist and media law professor. Barr contended that the borough’s restrictions how cameras are to be operated [...]
Commissioners questioned about public comment (0)
2/29/12 •
BY STACI WILSON The Susquehanna County Commissioners were questioned at the Wednesday, Feb. 22 meetings by an audience member about public comment not being noted in the meeting minutes. Bruce Paskoff objected to the approval of the Feb. 8 meeting minutes. Commissioner Alan Hall said in order for comment to appear in the minutes, it [...]
County to change pension advisers (0)
2/29/12 •
BY STACI WILSON The Susquehanna County Retirement Board opted, at the Wednesday, Feb. 245 meeting, to terminate its contract with the Seneca Group, the investment managers that have been handling the county’s pension fund for over six years. The three county commissioners, County Treasurer Cathy Benedict and Chief Clerk Sylvia Beamer sit on the pension [...]
Liberty polling place changed (0)
2/29/12 •
BY STACI WILSON LibertyTownshipvoters will head to a new polling place for the April 24 primary election. The county election board, comprised by the commissioners, approved, Wednesday, Feb. 24, a polling place change from the fire hall in Brookdale to theStanfordvilleBaptistChurch, located at 23456 SR 29, in Lawsville. Liberty Twp. supervisors requested the change in [...]
EL board discusses early vo-tech option (0)
2/29/12 •
BY STACI WILSON Elk Lake administrators were questioned by a few parents at the Thursday, Feb. 23 school board meeting about the decision to allow in the next school year about 20 ninth grade students into a full-time program in the Susquehanna County Career andTechnologyCenter. Junior High School Principal Brian Mallery said he thought it [...]
Forest City approves superintendent’s payout (0)
2/29/12 •
BY REBEKAH BROWN Times-Shamrock Writer The school board recently approved a nearly $21,000 retirement payout for former superintendent Robert Vadella. The $20,099.60 was for unused sick and vacation days. The payout, approved Feb. 13, included 16 and a half sick and 40 vacation days, according to business manager Kathleen Seifried. Each sick day was valued [...]