Date archive for November, 2012
Winter sports start up Friday (0)
11/14/12 •
Athletics teams from Susquehanna County will return to action with the first official winter sports practice taking place on Friday, Nov. 16. Here is a roundup of all the local teams: Boys’ Basketball Blue Ridge’s boys’ basketball team is coached by Brian Woodruff and is entering Lackawanna League Division III coming off a 9-5 league [...]
Act 13 disbursement revised (0)
11/14/12 •
BY LAURA LEGERE Times-Shamrock Writer Gas drilling impact fee payments to several Northeast Pennsylvania municipalities will more than double and many others will slightly shrink after the state Public Utility Commission reviewed and recalculated the amount owed to local governments. The agency discovered an error in its formula for calculating payments based on a town’s [...]
Up to the food challenge (0)
11/14/12 •
BY STACI WILSON Food collection drives are common during the holiday season with area school students donating non-perishables to benefit area food banks. But this year, Trehab added a new twist to the annual Feed-A-Friend Thanksgiving food drive with a ‘Battle of the Schools’ can sculpture contest to help raise awareness of hunger and collect [...]
Shooter takes last minute plea deal (0)
11/14/12 •
BY STACI WILSON A last minute plea deal staved off the attempted homicide trial of a New Milford man in Susquehanna County Court. Testimony was scheduled to begin before a jury Thursday morning. Jason Aronowitz, 43, admitted Wednesday in front of President Judge Kenneth Seamans to shooting Michael Reid, 28, twice in the stomach in [...]
Montrose presents PSSA data (0)
11/14/12 •
BY PAT FARNELLI Superintendent Michael Ognosky presented a detailed report on the Montrose Area School District’s PSSA scores and Adequate Yearly Progress status at the school board meeting Monday, and concluded that Montrose schools and Susquehanna County as a whole are both in good shape academically, despite reports that the district along with several others [...]
Mt. View initiates ‘Pride’ awards (0)
11/14/12 •
BY TOM FONTANA Correspondent Mountain View is being spelled with a capital “P” this week. Mountain View School Board took time out in Monday night’s meeting to recognize some stellar performances. The beginning of the meeting was held in the elementary school gym to accommodate a crowd of students, parents and staff who attended to [...]
Incumbent reps win reelection (0)
11/14/12 •
BY STACI WILSON Republican incumbents fended off their Democratic challengers in Susquehanna County to gain election night district wins. Nearly 70 percent of registered Susquehanna County voters turned out to the polls in the Nov. 6 General Election, casting 18,152 ballots. Congressman Tom Marino (R-PA10th), State Senator Gene Yaw (R-23rd) and State House Representative Sandra [...]
Two drivers crash into Hop Bottom Boro property (0)
11/14/12 •
BY PAT FARNELLI Hop Bottom Borough Council dealt with two different cases of accidental damage to borough property at the November meeting Tuesday night. First, a driver who hit the town hall building recently, causing some damage to the structure which is currently under renovations, had his day in court on Nov. 2. The judge’s [...]
Groups receive funds from Friends of County (0)
11/14/12 •
BY HELEN B. FOSTER Correspondent Last Monday (Nov. 5), Friends of Susquehanna County met at the New Milford Baptist Church to honor one of their own and to distribute funds to county organizations. One of the original members of Friends of Barnes Kasson Hospital, now Friends of Susquehanna County, Barbara Hinkley, was honored for all [...]
Conservation, Extension hold joint celebration (0)
11/14/12 •
The Susquehanna County Conservation District and Penn State Extension recently held a joint celebration on October 10th at the Montrose Bible Conference’s Dreyer Lodge Tea Room. The Conservation District commemorated their 65th year and Penn State Extension honored the 100th anniversary of the Pennsylvania 4-H program. After a delicious roast beef dinner, Master of Ceremony [...]