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BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner TUNKHANNOCK - A woman accused of letting her two small children wander along a highway pleaded guilty in Wyoming County Court on Friday. Michelle Marie Belcher, 23, of Tunkhannock, entered a guilty plea of recklessly endangering another person. According...
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BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner TUNKHANNOCK - Discussion on the purchase of a new garbage truck for Tunkhannock Borough elevated briefly into talk over whether the borough should be in the garbage business at all. The purchase of a...
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BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner Michael John Cook, 22, of Tunkhannock, pleaded guilty to criminal conspiracy to commit retaliation against a witness. According to the police complaint filed by Detective David Ide of the Wyoming County District Attorney's office, the victim's...
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BY ROBERT L. BAKER Wyoming County Press Examiner DIMOCK - Area residents got a primer on Marcellus gas drilling legislation last Friday night at the second of three League of Women Voter forums at Elk Lake High School. Julanne Skinner, Susquehanna County...
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BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner Tunkhannock Township police are investigating a crash Monday evening along Lane Hill Road. Police said at 8:19 p.m., Michael R. Smith, 42, of Tunkhannock, was driving when his car hit a tree. Both Smith and a passenger, identified as a 17-year-old girl...
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BY STACI WILSON Times-Shamrock Writer PennDOT's recent closure of a Bradford County road has spurred talk about the deteriorating road conditions in Susquehanna County. Increased traffic and heavy loads on roads, like Rt. 29 in Dimock, along with...
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BY ROBERT L. BAKER Wyoming County Press Examiner When disaster strikes, it's not uncommon for emergency responders to pack their bags and head for some exotic location, like New Orleans, Haiti or even Chile. On March 27-28, a Disaster Response Team from the Wyoming Conference of the United Methodist...
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BY JEREMY G. BURTON and MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Times-Shamrock Writers A local Catholic priest with a history of drug problems died Thursday afternoon in Minnesota, where he was seeking treatment at a rehabilitation facility. The Rev. James B. Shimsky, 50,...
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BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner FACTORYVILLE - Two suspects charged with stealing a vehicle in Factoryville and abandoning it on Forkston Mountain last spring waived their preliminary hearings on Tuesday. Courtney Lynn Gruver, 19, of Woods Drive, Dalton, and Michael R. Weisenbacher...
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BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner WILKES-BARRE - Several advocates of a sewer system for the Lake Carey area visited the regional office of the state Department of Environmental Protection on Thursday, looking for information to support...
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BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner Under the Pennsylvania Sewage Facilities (also known as Act 537), every municipality in the Commonwealth is required to have a plan in place to address sewage disposal issues. The act, passed in January 1966, mandates that all townships, boroughs and...
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BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner A relatively new online service from Google now makes it possible to look at street-level views of much of Wyoming County. The images were added to the Google Earth program over the past few weeks, augmenting...
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Conspicuously absent from the forum of panelists was Sen. Lisa Baker, R-Lehman Twp., whose 20 th Senatorial District comprises roughly the eastern half of Susquehanna County, and Rep. Jim Wansacz, D-Old Forge, whose 114 th District includes the extreme southeast corner of Susquehanna County. Rep. Sandra...
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BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press-Examiner FACTORYVILLE - Lackawanna Trail School Board is looking at ways it could handle a possible massive expense in coming years. At Monday's work session, business manager David Homish said the district...
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BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner EATON TWP. - At the request of a property owner, the township supervisors plan to look into erosion issues along Goble Hill Road. Terry Goble approached the supervisors at their meeting last Tuesday, March 3. He said whenever there is heavy rain or melting...
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