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October 2009 - WC Examiner News

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  • Concerns voiced about frac wastewater plant

    Concerns voiced about frac wastewater plant

    BY ROBERT BAKER Wyoming County Press Examiner TUNKHANNOCK - Around 20 area residents expressed serious reservations Tuesday night about a proposed facility that would treat and deposit wastewater from natural gas drilling operations into the Meshoppen Creek, north of Tunkhannock. The comments were made...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 10-27-2009
  • EL board answers more career center questions

    EL board answers more career center questions

    BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner DIMOCK TWP. - People who attended the Elk Lake School Board regular meeting last Tuesday (Oct. 20) had more questions about the proposed Susquehanna County Career and Technology Center expansion project...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 10-27-2009
  • 3 cases of H1N1 confirmed

    3 cases of H1N1 confirmed

    BY ROBERT L. BAKER Wyoming County Press Examiner EVANS FALLS - Tunkhannock Area School District Superintendent Michael Healey confirmed Thursday that as of last week the school district had three confirmed cases of H1N1. Patti Walsh, president of the parent-teacher organization at Evans Falls Elementary...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 10-27-2009
  • News yields clean water

    News yields clean water

    BY ROBERT L. BAKER Wyoming County Press Examiner It was the phone call that Norma Fiorentino had wanted for nearly 11 months but never thought she'd get. The 66-year-old widow from Dimock said the phone rang around 9:30 a.m., Monday, and at the other...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 10-27-2009
  • Voters to polls on Tuesday

    Voters to polls on Tuesday

    BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner Voters throughout Wyoming County will go to the polls on Tuesday for county, municipal and school board offices. The biggest race on the ballot is undoubtedly that for district attorney in the county. Incumbent Republican George Skumanick Jr. will square...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 10-27-2009
  • Lymanville Church wins case

    Lymanville Church wins case

    BY ROBERT L. BAKER Wyoming County Press Examiner A 167-year-old Susquehanna County church will be allowed to continue operating as such after a ruling last week by President Judge Kenneth Seamans. Judge Seamans ruled on Monday (Oct. 19) against William...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 10-27-2009
  • TA board candidates debate

    TA board candidates debate

    BY PAT FARNELLI Wyoming County Press Examiner Correspondent The Tunkhannock Area School Board has a few openings, and the Wyoming County Concerned Taxpayers P.A.C. Committee hosted a town hall meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 20. at the Tunkhannock Township Building. Four of the seven candidates for open school...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 10-27-2009
  • Candidates battle for Tunk. mayor

    Candidates battle for Tunk. mayor

    BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner Tunkhannock Borough residents will find two candidates on the ballot for mayor come the Nov. 3 election. Three-term Democratic incumbent Norm Ball is being challenged by Republican John Belcher. Both...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 10-27-2009
  • Supervisor candidates in Wash. Twp.

    Supervisor candidates in Wash. Twp.

    BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner Two candidates are running for a supervisor's seat in Washington Township. Incumbent Wayne Allen won the Republican nomination in the may 19 primary. He will face Terry Puterbaugh, who picked up the Democratic nomination. Allen, 65, is seeking his...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 10-27-2009
  • Kyttle vs. Rusinko in N’moreland

    Kyttle vs. Rusinko in N’moreland

    BY ROBERT L. BAKER Wyoming County Press Examiner Clinton Kyttle said he would've liked to have become supervisor following Gary Story's death in 2008, and even submitted an application. But, he wasn't given an opportunity to say what he could...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 10-27-2009
  • Truck fire blocks Route 92

    Truck fire blocks Route 92

    BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner NICHOLSON TWP. - A truck fire along Route 92 between Tunkhannock and Nicholson in Wyoming County closed both lanes of the highway on Wednesday afternoon. The fire started about 4 p.m. in a truck owned by Asplundh Tree Service. Workers were doing some...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 10-27-2009
  • Planned SCCTC courses defined

    Planned SCCTC courses defined

    BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner If approved, the proposed $8.6 million expansion project at the Susquehanna County Career and Technology Center would include not only additional space and facilities, but six new educational programs...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 10-27-2009
  • History of Lemon industrial site

    History of Lemon industrial site

    BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner The Lemon Township site proposed for a frac water treatment facility has had a long and sometimes sordid history. Following the Civil War, the site served as a milk receiving plant that gained in popularity after the Montrose Railway was put into effect...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 10-27-2009
  • P&G employees help United Way

    P&G employees help United Way

    BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner Several dozen Procter & Gamble employees spent the day Monday helping out at various community agencies throughout Wyoming County. It's known as a Day of Caring, during which the P&G personnel...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 10-27-2009
  • Parade highlights Tunkhannock homecoming

    Parade highlights Tunkhannock homecoming

    BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner For the second consecutive year, Tunkhannock Area High School's homecoming activities will feature a parade through town. The parade will make its way down Tioga Street on Friday, Oct. 30, starting at 5:30 p.m. It will be a prelude to the homecoming...
    Posted to WC Examiner News on 10-27-2009
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