Local tracksters compete at next level
BY KEVIN WOODRUFF A pair of former local track and field stars have stepped up their game competing for NCAA Division I programs. Elk Lake…
DeBoer breaks 34-year-old record
Sophomore Cody DeBoer broke the 34-year-old school record in the long jump with a NCAA automatic qualifying mark on Saturday afternoon in Richmond, Va., as…
Meteors hitting the track
BY KEVIN WOODRUFF Montrose Area’s boys’ and girls’ track and field teams return to competition after a solid 2010 season where the girls’ team finished…
Local archers heading to nationals
Blue Ridge High School and Choconut Valley Elementary’s National Archery in the Schools teams both qualified to attend the upcoming national championships in Louisville, Kentucky….
School sports on chopping block
BY KEVIN WOODRUFF With looming state budget cuts, it isn’t only academics that could suffer from economic shortages. Local school districts have also been pondering…
The week ahead
Wednesday, Mar. 30 Baseball – Elk Lake home against Athens, 4 p.m.; Forest City at Wallenpaupack, 4 p.m.; Montrose at Dunmore, 4 p.m.; Mt. View…
Ex-priest gets prison time for assaults
BY STACI WILSON An 84-year-old, deposed Episcopal priest will spend four and one-half years behind bars for sexually assaulting two teenage boys more than a…
Census reveals ups, downs and questions
BY ROBERT L. BAKER More 2010 U.S. Census data was released last week showing the gains and losses in Susquehanna County from when the census…
Cop nearly hit in traffic stop
BY STACI WILSON A Clifford-area man nearly hit a Pennsylvania State Trooper when he pulled away from the officer during a March 5 traffic stop….
Truck headed for well site has spill
BY STACI WILSON Hundreds of gallons of petroleum-based products spilled from a truck headed to a natural gas well site early Wednesday morning, Mar. 23,…