Date archive for December, 2012
21st Century Santa (0)
12/22/12 •
BY STACI WILSON Santa Claus paid a visit to a Choconut Valley Elementary first grade classroom last week. But he did arrive by reindeer and he didn’t have to squeeze down the school’s chimney. Santa communicated with students in Jessie Blaney’s classroom, as well as other elementary classes in Pennsylvania and Kentucky, in a video [...]
Mt. View board considers tighter security (0)
12/22/12 •
BY TOM FONTANA Correspondent At recent Mountain View school board meetings, site manager Robert Taylor has been asked to look into improving security at the district’s schools. In particular, they wanted him to research costs of fire alarm, door security, and camera systems. At Monday’s board meeting, Taylor shared that he had asked three different [...]
Elk Lake holding lock down drills (0)
12/22/12 •
BY PAT FARNELLI Elk Lake School District has been conducting lock-down drills at their school buildings about one time per month, and most recently had a lock-in exercise at the elementary school building on Tuesday, Dec. 11, just three days before the disastrous shooting at a Connecticut elementary school. The drill was conducted shortly after the [...]
EL has received $1.7 M in gas revenues (0)
12/22/12 •
BY PAT FARNELLI The November royalty payment received by the Elk Lake School District was the highest gas royalty payment from Cabot Oil & Gas in 2-012, according to a chart released to the public at the Dec. 6 school board meeting. The November check, while not as high as royalties received in months of [...]
Man sentenced in 23 burglaries (0)
12/22/12 •
BY STACI WILSON The man who burglarized over 20 Susquehanna County homes between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day was sentenced will spend the next 51 months to 20 years in prison. Keith Canfield, 42, Montrose, was sentenced by President Judge Kenneth Seamans on 23 burglary counts Thursday morning. The sentences will all run concurrent. Canfield [...]
12-12-12 baby (0)
12/22/12 •
BY STACI WILSON 12-12-12 It was the final repeating day of this century, spawning celebrations around the globe. And one Susquehanna-area family will be celebrating the day for years to come as the birthday of their son. Landyn Calvin James Phonechanh was born 9:36 p.m., Dec. 12, 2012, at Wilson Hospital, Johnson City, N.Y., to [...]
Montrose boro taxes go down one mill (0)
12/22/12 •
Montrose Borough taxpayers will see their taxes go down in 2013. But not by the two mills discussed at a meeting earlier this month. Taxes will, however, go down one mill, bringing the total taxes down from 14 to 13 mills. Council adopted its proposed $1,200,766 budget at its Monday, Dec. 17 meeting. Slight increases [...]
Cabot donates mulch for park (0)
12/22/12 •
BY PAT FARNELLI The town park on Greenwood Street in Hop Bottom will soon be improved with wood chips, thanks to Cabot Oil & Gas. Borough Councilman Ron Barankovich has been working for more than a year to give the park a replacement layer of mulch around the playground equipment, in addition to other improvements [...]
Susquehanna council looks to appoint member to TBMA (0)
12/22/12 •
BY HELEN B. FOSTER Correspondent At the Dec. 11 meeting of Susquehanna Borough Council, solicitor Michael Briechle was asked to draw up an ordinance that would allow council to appoint a member to the Tri-Boro Municipal Authority board. Briechle attended the meeting to give council a yearend review. The present TBMA board has five members; [...]
Harford sign sale brings in funds (0)
12/22/12 •
BY PAT FARNELLI A silent auction of obsolete road signs, outmoded by 911 requirements, brought almost $700 in cash and checks for Harford Township at its supervisors’ meeting Tuesday, Dec. 11. The three supervisors opened the bids for requested signs, and were pleasantly surprised by the amounts offered for the road signs, a list of [...]