June 2009 - WC Examiner News

  • Youth dies in Florida crash

    Youth dies in Florida crash

    BY DAVE SINGLETON Times-Shamrock Writer Like others who knew 8-year-old Garrett Stark, Pete Swart is having a difficult time trying to make sense of the Susquehanna County boy's death while on a family vacation in Florida. Police in Flagler Beach, Fla., said Garrett was crossing Ocean Shore Boulevard...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 06-23-2009
  • Judge rejects recount petition

    Judge rejects recount petition

    BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner TUNKHANNOCK - Incumbent George Skumanick Jr. is officially the Republican nominee in the race for Wyoming County District Attorney. At a hearing on Wednesday, June 17, Judge Brendan Vanston dismissed...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 06-23-2009
  • Basila named TAMS principal

    Basila named TAMS principal

    BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner TUNKHANNOCK - The Tunkhannock Area School Board on Thursday hired Cynthia Basila as middle school principal at an annual salary of $78,000. Basila had been the acting principal since the resignation of Joseph Guglielmo in February. She becomes the school's...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 06-23-2009
  • Businesses sue developer

    Businesses sue developer

    BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner Two Wyoming County businesses have filed civil action against the contractor of a Nicholson business property. The claims allege that LGN Management of South Williamsport owes more than $15,000 for items...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 06-23-2009
  • Looking good, feeling better

    Looking good, feeling better

    BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner Women who are undergoing cancer treatment can often experience changes in their appearance. Sometimes, being able to improve how they look can go a long way in their recovery. That's the goal of a program run by the American Cancer Society known...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 06-23-2009
  • Tunkhannock the mother of some inventors

    Tunkhannock the mother of some inventors

    BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner In the middle of the 19th century, Cyrus Avery was a prominent foundry and machine shop operator in Tunkhannock. While most local people knew him for the tools and equipment he made, several of his creations...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 06-23-2009
  • Founders’ Day activities

    Founders’ Day activities

    Whether touring a mansion, visiting a museum, or watching an artist create a masterpiece from a piece of wood, visitors to Tunkhannock Founders' Day will be able to enjoy a variety of experiences and find something of interest to everyone. For those who seek information about area history, the Wyoming...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 06-23-2009
  • Airport continues to seek runway funds

    Airport continues to seek runway funds

    BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner EATON TWP. - The Wyoming County Airport Authority is continuing to seek funds to expand the runway at Skyhaven Airport. At its meeting on Wednesday, June 17, the authority agreed to send a letter to the...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 06-23-2009
  • Benefit set for fallen trooper

    Benefit set for fallen trooper

    BY KELLY MONITZ Times-Shamrock Writer A week ago, as co-workers and friends mourned the line-of-duty death of Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Joshua D. Miller, another trooper thought about a memorial benefit for the 34-year-old man's family. Trooper Scott Sotack vocalized the idea at Damon's...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 06-23-2009
  • Weakley sues Luzerne prison

    Weakley sues Luzerne prison

    BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner Paul Weakley, who confessed to murder in the deaths of Wyoming County pharmacist Michael Kerkowski and Tammy Fassett, formerly of Meshoppen, has filed a lawsuit against the Luzerne County Prison, where...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 06-23-2009
  • Cell phone pix lead to assault sentence

    Cell phone pix lead to assault sentence

    BY STACI WILSON Times-Shamrock Writer MONTROSE - A Tunkhannock man whose cell phone pictures of himself got him in trouble, will serve three to 23 and one-half months in Susquehanna County Correctional Facility for having sex last October with a girl, under the age of 16. Arthur W. Ball Jr., 22, was...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 06-23-2009
  • Write at home: Author draws on life experiences

    Write at home: Author draws on life experiences

    BY JOSH McAULIFFE Times-Shamrock Writer If Suzanne Fisher Staples learned anything in her years working as a journalist in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, it's that common ground transcends cultural and linguistic barriers. "When you sit down...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 06-23-2009
  • ‘The Gathering’ slated July 16-19

    ‘The Gathering’ slated July 16-19

    In 2007, Suzanne Fisher Staples and Charlotte Ravaioli, Keystone's executive vice president of communications, created "The Gathering," an annual literary conference that brings some of the country's most talented writers to the college's LaPlume campus for a weekend's worth...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 06-23-2009
  • TA ninth graders learn in ‘real world’

    TA ninth graders learn in ‘real world’

    BY RACHEL REICHLE Wyoming County Press Examiner Correspondent A group of ninth graders got a dose of the real world last week. The Tunkhannock Area High School students were participating in the Vital Link Summer Job Shadowing Program through the high...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 06-23-2009
  • Local troops arrive home from Iraq

    Local troops arrive home from Iraq

    BY BOB KALINOWSKI Times-Shamrock Writer HANOVER TWP. - Two dozen U.S. Army Reserve soldiers returned home Wednesday morning after a nearly yearlong tour of duty in Iraq, including a newlywed couple who spent their first year of marriage together at war. Richard and Gloria Brown married while training...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 06-23-2009
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