Date archive for June, 2012
Methodists meet in annual conference (0)
6/13/12 •
BY ROBERT L. BAKER United Methodists representing 934 churches across northeastern and centralPennsylvania(including 19 inSusquehannaCounty) passed a resolution affirming Rev. Mark Webb as their choice for the next Bishop of the Susquehanna Conference. Webb serves as Dean of the Conference Cabinet and may be in line to replace retiring Bishop Jane Middleton, who steps down [...]
Students check out Soldiers Orphans School (0)
6/13/12 •
BY ROBERT L. BAKER Mountain ViewElementary Schoolfifth graders took a field trip last Wednesday just over the mountain from where they regularly go to school to learn two very valuable lessons. They visited the Harford Orphans’ School and learned that education today is a lot different from the way it was 150 years ago, and [...]
Hop Bottom hermit fire ruled arson (0)
6/13/12 •
BY PAT FARNELLI The dilapidated camper home of a Hop Bottom hermit was set on fire on Memorial Day, borough officials announced at their meeting on Tuesday. The fire alert panicked the borough’s mayor and secretary, who knew that the property owner might have returned home. Hal Akoa, who was hospitalized for gangrene on both [...]
Man accused of exposure now faces assault charges (0)
6/13/12 •
BY STACI WILSON The 24-year-old man police say exposed himself to convenience store employees inLawtonnow faces allegations that he has been having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl. William Moreck Jr., of Laceyville, was charged by Tpr. Craig Purdum with three counts of statutory sexual assault and three counts of corruption of minors – [...]
Lady Raiders fall in Class A title game (0)
6/06/12 •
BY TOM BROLLEY Times-Shamrock Writer The Blue Ridge Lady Raider softball team went into the District II Class A softball championship atWilkesUniversity’s Ralston Field on Friday with confidence. However, the youngBlue Ridgefaced a tough challenge from Northwest and fell 4-1. Blue Ridge Bob Pavelski coach said his team had an “excited to be there mentality” [...]
Meteors fall in AA semifinal (0)
6/06/12 •
The Montrose Area baseball team was handed its first loss of the season on Wednesday in the District II Class AA semifinal against Holy Cross, 7-4. At Montrose, the Meteors ended the season at 16-1 after Holy Cross put them behind early with a 3-0 deficit in the top of the first inning. Montrose chipped [...]
Stock dog trails carry on tradition (0)
6/06/12 •
BY KEVIN WOODRUFF It’s been 31 years since Cheryl Jagger Williams held the first stock dog trials at Sheepy Hollow Farm in Hop Bottom alongside her father Walter Jagger. Throughout the years the event has evolved and grown, and many things have changed. And even though Walter passed away in 2008, Cheryl and her husband [...]
Montrose Legion splits doubleheader (0)
6/06/12 •
The Montrose Post 154 Senior Legion baseball team went 1-1 in a doubleheader with Hamlin at home on Saturday winning the first game 5-0, and falling 16-11 in the second. In the opening game, Kory Stimmel fired a two-hit shutout with 10 strikeouts to lead the team. Montrose scored a run in the third, one [...]
Mt. View appoints superintendent (0)
6/06/12 •
BY ROBERT L. BAKER The Mountain View School Board voted Wednesday night to appoint Francine Shea, aBuffalo,N.Y., native with 25 years experience as an educator, as its district superintendent effective July 1. She will replace Andrew Chichura, who has been superintendent since 2006 and also served in that capacity from 1984 to 1996. She was [...]
Fires claim 2 lives (0)
6/06/12 •
BY STACI WILSON Two people died in the past week as a result of smoke inhalation. One was killed last Thursday, May 31, in a fiery crash in Dimock Twp. A house fire in Great Bend Twp. on Monday, June 4 claimed the life of an elderly woman. The identity of the man killed May [...]