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June 2009 - WC Examiner News
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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