Aging gracefully a challenge
At 82, Clara Montone sees tough times ahead. She faces rising medical costs, transportation to appointments, post-retirement expenses, decreased mobility and missing companionship. Some retirees, like...
View ArticleTioga County Open Door Mission announces food giveaway
Tioga County Open Door Mission announces food giveaway The Tioga County Open Door Mission is having another food giveaway on Friday, March 22, at The Red Door located at 359 Broad St. in Waverly, N.Y....
View ArticleDrilling the well Wellbore drilling and casing construction
Editor's Note: This is the third part in a six-part series giving a step-by-step look at the process that a natural gas company conducts to produce natural gas from the Marcellus Shale. The series is a...
View ArticleEpiphany crowned Jr. High Scholarship Challenge champs
For the eighth time, Epiphany School middle-schoolers captured the Landy & Kilmer Junior High Scholarship Challenge championship on Choice Radio Saturday, defeating Waverly in the final match of...
View ArticleSayre officials reexamine snow emergency ordinance Committee to look at...
The Sayre borough council's administration committee last week began to explore the possibility of amending the borough's snow emergency ordinance. Council vice-president and committee chair Gene...
View ArticleSnow strikes area Slippery road conditions cause of several accidents
Spring is set to begin Wednesday, but the calendar didn't stop a last-minute winter storm from striking Bradford County and the surrounding areas Monday. Area residents and business owners dug out...
View ArticleFay's Sugar Shack getting ready for Pancake Days
On one of those warm March days last week, I had an opportunity to visit Fay's Sugar Shack along the Berwick Turnpike, just north of Big Pond. As I walked into the sap house, it was warm and steamy....
View ArticleTowanda Borough receives more funding to combat aggressive driving; Local...
TOWANDA - The Towanda Borough Police said they launched a six-week-long enforcement operation on Monday to crack down on aggressive driving. The operation consists of special police patrols to crack...
View ArticleNursing homes may be unable to keep up with aging population
Lackawanna County's institutional capacity to house elderly people tracks a diminishing trend statewide. The county had an 8 percent decline in nursing home beds from 2000 to 2012 virtually the same as...
View ArticleFirst Citizens Community Bank contributes to Sayre Historical Society
As a kick-off to the Sayre Historical Society's 2013 Business Partner Program, First Citizens Community Bank recently presented a check in the amount of $500.00 to the Sayre Historical Society Museum....
View ArticleAsylum Twp. female charged with aggravated assault; Tonya Burgess had...
An Asylum Township woman is accused of firing two shots into her residence over the weekend, knowing that her boyfriend was inside the home at the time, police said. Tonya Kay Burgess, 39, has been...
View ArticleLocal Area Agency on Aging tightens up its criteria for accepting volunteers...
TOWANDA - The local Area Agency on Aging has tightened up its screening of people who wish to volunteer for agency. Citizens who wish to volunteer for the B-S-S-T Area Agency on Aging will need to...
View ArticleWaverly holds village election Voting machine problem leads to delay in results
Election officials in Waverly continued to count ballots for this year's municipal election as of press time Tuesday. Officials spent Tuesday night after polls closed at 9 p.m. counting machine votes,...
View ArticleCompressor catches fire Tuesday evening Photo:Compressor catches fire Tuesday...
A fire broke out at the Southwestern Energy "Clark" Central Processing Facility on Dolan Road in Herrick Township at approximately 6:15 p.m. Tuesday evening. Glenn Camp, chief of the Herrickville...
View ArticleDunkin' Donuts update provided in Troy
TROY - It's not unusual for people to think about Dunkin' Donuts in the morning, but the famous doughnut and breakfast food chain was being discussed Tuesday morning in Troy for an entirely different...
View ArticleTroy School District celebrates student test scores
TROY - The Troy Area School District superintendent said Tuesday that Troy students taking the literature portion of the Keystone Exams this year "knocked the socks off it." Superintendent W. Charles...
View ArticleAthens Twp. police investigate hit-and-run
Athens Township police seek an unknown individual involved in a hit-and-run motor vehicle accident that occurred Monday, according to information from township police. Police said the individual,...
View ArticleAdult day care provides other options for aging baby boomers
Four years ago, Faith LaRussa was faced with a decision: which health care facility wasn't the worst. After taking ill, she was in and out of "more facilities than you can imagine," she explained,...
View ArticleFire breaks out in barn Damage to building was 'minimal'
TOWANDA TOWNSHIP - A fire on Tuesday caused "minimal" damage to a barn on South Main Street in Towanda Township, which is used as a workshop by local contractor Rob Hartmann, the Towanda fire chief...
View ArticleNew nursing homes not likely as population ages
The state has licensed just one new nursing home for Medicaid payments in Lackawanna County since 1999. Three nursing homes in the county have closed since 2002, according to the state Department of...
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