Category archive for ‘News’
Gas fire believed accident (0)
5/22/13 •
BY JOSEPH KOHUT Times-Shamrock Writer A fire and possible explosion at a Susquehanna County gas compressor station late Tuesday night remain under investigation but is thought to be an accident, a state police fire marshal said. At 11 p.m., flames lit up a Williams Partners LP gas compressor station on Turnpike Road in Brooklyn Twp. [...]
Janicelli honored as BSA Distinguished Citizen (0)
5/22/13 •
BY HELEN B. FOSTER Correspondent Retired magisterial district judge Peter Janicelli was honored on Saturday, May 11, as Baden-Powell Council, Boy Scouts of America Distinguished Citizen. The day of celebration started with a golf tournament at the Golden Oak Golf Course, Windsor, N.Y., and concluded with a dinner attended by family, friends and co-workers. The [...]
Man faces attempted homicide charges in bar skirmish (0)
5/22/13 •
BY ROBERT L. BAKER A 30-year-old Clifford man who pointed a gun at patrons of a Susquehanna County bar and even pulled the trigger which did not fire last weekend, has been charged with criminal attempt to commit homicide. Brandon Lee Walsh was arraigned Monday on charges pending from an incident on Friday, May 10. [...]
Mountain View holds off on approval of tentative budget (0)
5/22/13 •
BY TOM FONTANA Correspondent The expected approval of a budget proposal was held off by the Mountain View school board at its meeting Monday night. Board member Dava Rinehart-Cowan asked that a tentative budget for 2013-14 be delayed for further discussion, and the board agreed. A special meeting will be held Tuesday, May 28, 7 [...]
Susquehanna board OKs prelim budget (0)
5/22/13 •
HELEN B. FOSTER Correspondent Susquehanna Community School District directors put a tentative budget of $13.7 million forward at their May 15 meeting. The proposed district millage of 45.78 for Susquehanna County and 13.27 for Wayne County reflects at 2.5 percent increase in taxes and amounts to $2.50 per $1,000 of assessed value. Directors were told [...]
Williams expanding local office (0)
5/22/13 •
BY ROBERT L. BAKER and STACI WILSON Times-Shamrock Writers Williams, the Tulsa, Okla.-based company whose pipelines deliver roughly one-seventh of the natural gas consumed in the United States, announced plans last week to expand its Tunkhannock office in a big way. At a noon Chamber of Commerce luncheon at Stonehedge last Wednesday, Williams spokesman Shannon [...]
Montrose AP Bio students release trout (0)
5/22/13 •
BY STACI WILSON Since November students in the Montrose Area High School AP Biology course have been raising fish. With about 60 survivors from 400 eggs, the small, brook trout were released into Fall Brook Creek in Franklin Twp. by the students on Thursday. Robert Fearnley of the Susquehanna County Conservation District told the students [...]
SCHS student council tackles cleanup (0)
5/22/13 •
BY HELEN B. FOSTER Correspondent Susquehanna Community High School student Sarah Serfilippi helped organize a community project that saw council members spending two afternoons weeding, scrubbing, pruning, trimming and cleaning up trash at the Veteran’s Memorial in the Shops Plaza off Main Street in Susquehanna. According to student council adviser Carly Batzel, Serfillippi, a junior, [...]
Scout raises WRC awareness for teens (0)
5/22/13 •
BY STACI WILSON Teen domestic violence. It’s not a topic many want to acknowledge and fewer speak about. But Blue Ridge senior Nathaniel Wellman chose to address the issue as his Eagle Scout project. Wellman said he wanted teens to know that it wasn’t a “gender-specific” problem. And he wanted them to know that there [...]
MV Coffee Cart caps off first year success (0)
5/22/13 •
BY STACI WILSON With help from the Pump N Pantry, Mountain View Elementary life skills class launched its coffee cart earlier this year. Wade Robinson, Pump N Pantry’s food service supervisor, helped install the coffee cart program at the school and on Monday, he got a chance to show the students a glimpse behind the [...]