July 2009 - WC Examiner News

  • 4 of P&G’s gas well sites OK’d

    4 of P&G’s gas well sites OK’d

    BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner WASHINGTON TWP. - Four of the five gas wells planned for the Procter & Gamble Paper Products property have been approved by the state Department of Environmental Protection. In addition, DEP has approved the application for a well in Nicholson Township...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 07-28-2009
  • Rapid growth forecast in Marcellus jobs

    Rapid growth forecast in Marcellus jobs

    BY ROBERT SWIFT Times-Shamrock Writer HARRISBURG - An industry-financed study projects that jobs associated with natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale formation in Pennsylvania will triple by next year. While some 29,000 existing jobs in Pennsylvania...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 07-28-2009
  • Blessed Sacrament no more

    Blessed Sacrament no more

    BY ROBERT L. BAKER Wyoming County Press Examiner Rev. James Shimsky acknowledged Sunday that what he was having to do was not easy, as if the tears in some people's eyes didn't already tell the story. Another Roman Catholic Church in the Diocese of Scranton was shuttering its door, and most at...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 07-28-2009
  • Historic boat tour part of Lake Carey Day

    Historic boat tour part of Lake Carey Day

    BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner LAKE CAREY - It's been nearly 40 years since Mimi Selingo Saltzman visited her grandmother's cottage at Lake Carey. On Saturday, she relived some of her childhood memories as she toured the lake...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 07-28-2009
  • LT sets tribute concert

    LT sets tribute concert

    BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner The Lackawanna Trail High School band will be holding a tribute concert to honor its late director, James Smith. Smith, 54, died unexpectedly on July 16 at his summer home in Ocala, Fla. The concert, "Making Music for Mr. Smith," will be held...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 07-28-2009
  • Accounts opened for SCCTC expansion funds

    Accounts opened for SCCTC expansion funds

    BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner DIMOCK TWP. - The Elk Lake School Board voted last Tuesday, July 21, to set up bank accounts for an expansion project of the Susquehanna County Career and Technology Center. In doing so, board members...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 07-28-2009
  • Farmer’s market gets the boot

    Farmer’s market gets the boot

    BY ROBERT L. BAKER Wyoming County Press Examiner The farmers claim they had been backing their trucks up in the Wal-Mart parking lot and selling fresh produce each summer almost as many summers as the retail giant has been there. Around 15-18 summers, Kevin Michaels guesses. But this summer is different...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 07-28-2009
  • Housing assistance money available

    Housing assistance money available

    BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner TUNKHANNOCK - Some money from the federal economic stimulus plan is available to help Wyoming County residents who rent homes. Kevin Holehan, director of the Commission on Economic Opportunity, told the...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 07-28-2009
  • Celebrate our river

    Celebrate our river

    A procession of canoes and kayaks arrives in Tunkhannock on Saturday following a downriver float from Mehoopany. The trip concluded at Riverside Park during Celebrate Our River Day. STAFF PHOTO/MIKE RUDOLF Visitors to Celebrate Our River Day were treated to music by several performers, including the...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 07-28-2009
  • Flood-damaged house demolished

    Flood-damaged house demolished

    BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner MESHOPPEN TWP. - A house that was heavily damaged by flooding in June 2006 is finally being torn down. Crews started demolishing the former John Richardson home on Meshoppen Creek Road on Friday morning...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 07-28-2009
  • Unemployment rises again

    Unemployment rises again

    BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner For the second month in a row, the unemployment rate in Wyoming County increased. According to adjusted figures released by the state Department of Labor and Industry on Tuesday, 9.1 percent of the county's labor force was out of work in June. That's...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 07-28-2009
  • SRBC to hold hearings on gas drilling changes

    SRBC to hold hearings on gas drilling changes

    The Susquehanna River Basin Commission is holding two public hearings to receive comment on proposed regulatory revisions to streamline the use of SRBC-approved water for natural gas drilling in the Marcellus and other shale formations. The proposed revisions...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 07-28-2009
  • County firewood program helps criminal offenders

    County firewood program helps criminal offenders

    BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner TUNKHANNOCK TWP. - For the past four months, a program run by the Wyoming County Juvenile Probation Department has enabled people to work off part of their sentences while benefitting the community, without costing the county anything. The county's...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 07-28-2009
  • Lizza’s new Galleria features more artists

    Lizza’s new Galleria features more artists

    BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner TUNKHANNOCK - There are some big changes in the art gallery at Lizza Studios. Instead of hosting one-person shows three or four times a year, what is now called the Artisan's Galleria at Lizza Studios...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 07-28-2009
  • Nicholson grads enjoy coming  home

    Nicholson grads enjoy coming home

    BY ROBERT L. BAKER Wyoming County Press Examiner Most of them had been out of school for at least 55 years, but that didn't stop them from recalling the good times they had even though their Nicholson High School was long out of commission. Saturday was the time at St. Patrick's recreational...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 07-28-2009
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