November 2008 - WC Examiner News

  • BREAKING NEWS: Nystrand pleads guilty to distributing meth

    BREAKING NEWS: Nystrand pleads guilty to distributing meth

    BY JOSH MROZINSKI Staff Writer SCRANTON - A 38-year-old man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiracy to manufacture a controlled substance for making and distributing methamphetamine in the Northern Tier for about four years. Michael Nystrand, formerly of Jenningsville, faces a mandatory minimum sentence...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 11-26-2008
  • County ’09 budget proposes 3-mill tax increase

    County ’09 budget proposes 3-mill tax increase

    BY JOSH MROZINSKI Staff Writer TUNKHANNOCK - Wyoming County Commissioners on Wednesday adopted a preliminary 2009 budget with a 3 mill tax increase. Commissioner Tony Litwin said the 2009 $11.83 million budget will likely be reduced before final adoption...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 11-26-2008
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  • Dietrich Theater construction draws interest

    Dietrich Theater construction draws interest

    BY JOSH MROZINSKI Wyoming County Press Examiner TUNKHANNOCK - Hildy Morgan hopes the opening of an expanded Dietrich Theater in May will draw great interest from the community. She never thought the installation of walls as a preliminary part of the project would also generate excitement. But, this Monday...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 11-26-2008
  • Planners okay BP wind park

    Planners okay BP wind park

    BY JOSH MROZINSKI Wyoming County Press Examiner TUNKHANNOCK TWP - The Wyoming County Planning Commission last Wednesday gave preliminary approval to plans to build a wind park in the southwestern part of the county. BP Alternative Energy plans to build...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 11-26-2008
  • State clears Tunkhannock of wrongdoing

    State clears Tunkhannock of wrongdoing

    BY JOSH MROZINSKI Wyoming County Press Examiner TUNKHANNOCK - The state Department of Transportation has determined that the borough did not violate state and municipal regulations when $67,977.15 in liquid fuel tax funds was spent two years ago. In a letter received by the borough on Thursday, PennDOT...
  • WP take over plan in the works

    WP take over plan in the works

    BY JOSH MROZINSKI Wyoming County Press Examiner WASHINGTON TWP - The transfer of ownership of a troubled water and sewer company west of Tunkhannock could happen early next year. As a Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission proceeding to force the sale...
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  • Board appoints TAMS asst. principal

    Board appoints TAMS asst. principal

    BY JOSH MROZINSKI Wyoming County Press Examiner The Tunkhannock Area School Board Thursday hired Cynthia Basila as a middle school assistant principal at an annual salary of $64,000. Basila is now an assistant high school principal at Old Forge. The day she starts at Tunkhannock Area has not been determined...
  • Alleged thief has wad of cash

    Alleged thief has wad of cash

    BY JOSH MROZINSKI Wyoming County Press Examiner EATON TWP. - A 24-year-old woman who allegedly took DVDs from Wal-Mart was also found to be in possession of $20,000. Virginia Jimenez-Mata, of RR 3, Box 177, Meshoppen, could face drug charges because the...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 11-26-2008
  • Fire destroys home on Stark Road

    Fire destroys home on Stark Road

    BY JOSH MROZINSKI Wyoming County Press Examiner TUNKHANNOCK TWP. - Animals died in a fire that gutted a home on Stark Road Sunday night. The cause of the fire is undetermined, Triton Hose Chief Paul Shaffer said. He added that the homeowner, Suzanne Mislevy, was not at the residence when the fire started...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 11-26-2008
  • Area churches offer thanks

    Area churches offer thanks

    BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner For the fourth consecutive year, the Tunkhannock Assembly of God Church will host a free Thanksgiving dinner for the community. The church will open its doors for the dinner from noon until 2 p.m., Thursday...
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  • Easy as pie

    Easy as pie

    BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner MEHOOPANY - The kitchen at Margaret Thompson's home was a virtual assembly line on Thursday, as she and friend Yvonne Boice baked for this past Saturday's Pastor's Pie Sale at Mehoopany United Methodist Chruch. It's not an unusual sight...
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  • Natural gas industry evolving

    Natural gas industry evolving

    BY JOSH MROZINSKI Wyoming County Press Examiner Companies are not only signing natural gas leases with landowners in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Leases are also being transferred between companies and landowners have little input on such transactions,...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 11-26-2008
  • Experts: Marcellus Shale will impact entire state

    Experts: Marcellus Shale will impact entire state

    BY ELIZABETH SKRAPITS Times-Shamrock Writer DALLAS TWP. - The natural-gas producing Marcellus Shale will have a massive effect on nearly every county in Pennsylvania, becoming a vital contributor to the economy that will affect other industries, experts agree. "Pennsylvania could become the OPEC...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 11-26-2008
  • Burnham guilty of animal cruelty

    Burnham guilty of animal cruelty

    BY JOSH MROZINSKI Wyoming County Press Examiner TUNKHANNOCK TWP. - A Meshoppen woman has been found guilty of animal cruelty for failing to provide adequate care to 55 potbellied pigs. Magisterial District Judge John Hovan ordered on Friday that Marla...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 11-26-2008
  • Counties press Harrisburg about funding

    Counties press Harrisburg about funding

    BY ROBERT SWIFT Times-Shamrock Writer HARRISBURG - Nervous about new state budget cuts, county commissioners from across Pennsylvania in warning Monday that Harrisburg's cost-cutting will be passed on to local taxpayers. "County governments are facing a fiscal crisis every bit as severe as the...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 11-26-2008
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