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October 4, 2008  RSS feed

It's official: Elk Visitor Center work underway
More than 200 gathered on Winslow Hill in Benezette to break ground for the Pennsylvania Wilds Elk Country Visitor Center, which will be completed by the end of next year. Organizers expect the $12 million project to become the premier conservation education center in the East. More...
TRAIN ENGINEER ENTERS GUILTY PLEA

There will be no trial for the engineer who was at the controls of a Norfolk Southern train that crashed near Gardeau in late June 2006, spilling lye and severely damaging prime recreational waterways. Michael Seifert, 46, of West Seneca, N.Y. More...

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Hundreds of people turned out for Austin's annual Fall Festival last Sunday. The town's square was jammed with vendors and play stations for the young people. A parade with several homemade floats highlighted the day's early events, but it was the afternoon 'bed races' that thrilled the crowd. In the photo, the team of Lee Vasko, Bryan Gola and Pete Dynda edge out Joey Glover, Blair Shupe and Richie Glover in one heat. Dozens more photos from the event appear on page 8. More...

 News
• GAS WELL FIRE EXTINGUISHED
Specialists from Texas were finally able to quell a roaring gas well fire that burned for almost two weeks near the southern Potter County community of Cross Fork. There were no injuries and no structures involved in the fire at a Dominion Transmission Inc. gas well just over the Clinton County border in Leidy Township. More...
• VOTER REGISTRATION DEADLINE MONDAY
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 Viewpoints
• article has image Austin: The time is now
My new, workday view is an extraordinary one in the most literal sense. It is very much out of the ordinary, out of course and special to a marked degree. For 11 years, I labored in Emporium, a town I have grown to love and, in many ways, know better than my own hometown. More...
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• We've got mail!
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 Community Life
• article has image CCMH EXPANDS CARDIOLOGY SERVICES
Dr. Steven Herrmann has joined the medical staff at Charles Cole Memorial Hospital. He is director of the Heart Center at Bradford Regional Medical Center, an affiliate of the Hamot Medical Center's Hamot Heart Institute. Dr. Herrmann will continue his practice at Bradford and expand cardiology services to Cole, where he will join Dr. Howard Miller, Dr. More...
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 Outdoors
• article has image Drought's lingering impact
Rain that fell earlier this week was welcome relief for area waterways, but was literally a drop in the bucket. Driftwood Branch of the Sinnemahoning Creek was below one-quarter of its median flow for late September entering last weekend. More...
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• Fall foliage photo workshop
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 Sports
• article has image RAIDERS TAKE BIG STEP TOWARDS TITLE
Cameron County is in the driver's seat in the Allegheny Mountain High School Football League. Coach Tony Defilippi's Red Raiders (5-0) held off Coudersport, 13-7, in a thriller last Friday night on the Emporium gridiron. It took a goal-line stand in the game's closing minutes to seal the victory. Three of the Raiders' five wins have been nailbiters. More...
• Austin on the chase with Coudersport in volleyball
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 Obituaries
• Blanche C. Kowalski
DECEMBER 15, 1917 - SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
Blanche C. Kowalski, 90, of Coudersport, died Tuesday (Sept. 30, 2008) with her two daughters, Christine Herzig of Coudersport and Janet Perkowski of Wellsboro, at her side. Born on Dec. 15, 1917 in Falls Creek, she was the daughter of Joseph and Helen Yuncek Sevinsky. On Jan. 28, 1939 in Coudersport she married Joseph A. Kowalski, who died on Dec. 30, 1995. More...
• Richard C. Young
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