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Planners table CVS proposal (1)
1/25/12 •
Decision hinges on Tunkhannock Zoning Hearing Board meeting tonight. BY ROBERT L. BAKER Wyoming County Press Examiner The Wyoming County Planning Commission tabled consideration of a plan by CVS Drugs to take over the property that now contains Gay’s True Value Hardware. For around 30 minutes, Sean McDermott, development manager for the Zaremba Group in [...]
Wyoming Co. asked to add new positions (0)
1/25/12 •
BY PAT FARNELLI Wyoming County Press Examiner Wyoming County Commissioners heard requests from county planners and the conservation district to add a new staff member to both offices at their regular meeting Tuesday. County planner Paul Weilage asked the commissioners to consider adding a part-time position to handle flood plain ordinance and Federal Emergency Management [...]
TASB gives green light to tax increase (0)
1/25/12 •
BY ROBERT L. BAKER Wyoming County Press Examiner The Tunkhannock Area School Board approved in principle a preliminary budget at Thursday’s meeting that suggests the district could raise taxes by four mills for 2012-13. Board member Sandra Lane said, however, that the final budget won’t look anything like what was approved. State law mandates that [...]
Seven return to face poaching charges (0)
1/25/12 •
BY ROBERT L. BAKER Wyoming County Press Examiner TUNKHANNOCK – Seven former pipeline workers from the Deep South returned to Wyoming County Thursday for a preliminary hearing regarding poaching charges, but the four lawyers representing five of them and the district attorney could only agree to disagree. Magisterial District Judge John Hovan had planned for [...]
EPA water arrives in Dimock (0)
1/25/12 •
BY LAURA LEGERE Times-Shamrock Writer DIMOCK TWP. – The first tanker of water from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reached Carter Road on Friday in what will become a regular delivery to four homes as federal regulators investigate the impact of natural gas drilling on drinking water here. Encouraged by supporters of the affected families [...]
Alert neighbor lands four men in jail (0)
1/25/12 •
BY ROBERT L. BAKER Wyoming County Press Examiner Four Wyoming County men are in jail after a friend of a neighbor spotted suspicious activity last Wednesday (Jan. 18) at Cook’s Trailer Park in Eaton Township. Jacob Matthew Walter, 19, of Mehoopany; John E. Barral, 24, of Tunkhannock; Jesse Ray Helwig, 20, of Forkston; and Jonathan [...]
Pipelines may fuel region with homegrown gas (0)
1/25/12 •
BY ELIZABETH SKRAPITS Times-Shamrock Writer Three pipelines in the works could provide Northeastern Pennsylvania with natural gas from its own backyard. Chief Gathering LLC and Williams Field Services LLC now have all the required permissions for their pipelines and related equipment to bring natural gas from wells in Susquehanna County to connect to the Transco [...]
No injuries from bus accident (0)
1/25/12 •
BY ROBERT L. BAKER Wyoming County Press Examiner CLINTON TWP. – A car collided Monday night with a school bus carrying members of the Lackawanna Trail High School wrestling team, and the school has confirmed there were no injuries. The crash happened about 8:50 p.m. on Tunnel Hill Road just off of Route 11 near [...]
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