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April 5, 2008
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COMMUNITY RALLYING AROUND TEEN
Austin eighth-grader battling rare bone disease
Paige McLaughlin is an active eighth-grader with a zest for life and a seemingly limitless future. When she's not playing volleyball, softball or soccer, she can be found practicing on the flute or hitting the books as an honor student at Austin Area School. More...
GAS COMPANIES TURN UP HEAT
Rendell administration will allow new drilling activity

Energy companies got their wish last week with the announcement that they'll be able to seek the mother lode of natural gas reservoirs deep under state forest land in northcentral Pennsylvania. More...

OIL, GAS LEASING DISCUSSION SET

Recorder of Deeds Gary Kelsey will discuss the upsurge in oil and gas leases and the flurry of activity his office has experienced as guest speaker during the next meeting of the Potter County Board of Commissioners. The meeting is scheduled for 11 am Thursday at the courthouse. More...

 News
•SAP FLOWIN' MAPLE WEEKEND
Sap was running over the weekend and so were the fourth annual Potter/Tioga Maple Weekend tours. Local sugar shacks opened up their doors to locals, tourists and anyone else interested in learning how maple products are made. Among those visiting local sugarbushes was a group of foreign diplomats... More...
•Drug trends identified
•NOW IT'S THE TAX MAN
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 Viewpoints
•Our waterways are on the mend
(Todd Deluccia is a watershed specialist for the Cameron County Conservation District). Since the state has settled with Norfolk Southern over the sodium hydroxide spill of June 30, 2006, many questions have been asked and rumors have arisen about how the ... More...
•Through An 'Old Timer's' Eyes
•We've got mail!
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 Community Life
•It's all about leadership
Nineteen Potter County residents who care about their communities have been attending a cram course on leadership since the beginning of the year. When they emerge from the comprehensive training, they'll be better able to step into influential roles in business, education, government and civic o... More...
•Moscato Brown Library lists memorials, new titles
•Births
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 Outdoors
•Too close for comfort!
Woman concerned about visiting bobcat
The tiny village of Olmstead, between Coudersport and Roulette, has an unwelcome new resident. He made his presence known last week to his closest neighbor, the affable Dona Lehman. Lehman heard a thump and assumed it was one of her domestic cats bumping against a window, or possibly a wayward bi... More...
•Leek season has officially begun
•Skiing wanes; more on tap at Ski Denton
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 Sports
•Heimel District 9 Player of the Year
First Northern Tier League player to earn the award
Coudersport's Blair Heimel is the 2008 District 9 boys' basketball Player of the Year. A-C Valley freshman Allan Eaton is Rookie of the Year and Bradford's Dave Fuhrman is Coach of the Year. "Blair, Allan and Dave proved through the year that they were at the top of the class in their respective... More...
•'Blue' girls win All-Star Game
•Seniors clash in all-star game
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 Obituaries
•Amy L. Wheaton
Amy L. Wheaton, 53, of Austin, formerly of Emporium, died at Elk Regional Health Center, St. Marys, on Friday (March 28, 2008). Funeral service was held at the Barnett Funeral Home where the Rev. John Baney, pastor of Austin United Methodist Church, officiated. Burial will be in the Gilmore Cemet... More...
•Elner E. Plant
•Edna M. Dumich
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