Archive - Feb 2013 - News Article
February 6th
Members of the Elk Counties Local Housing Options Team [LHOT] met Wednesday afternoon at The Edgewood Hall in St. Marys to finalize preparations for the third annual housing expo set for today from noon to 5 p.m. at The Edgewood Hall in St. Marys.
February 5th
In an effort to avoid duplication of services and to ensure that veterans indeed do not "fall through the cracks," the Elk County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday approved a memorandum of understanding for supportive services for the "Veterans Families Program."
The Ridgway Area School District [RASD] received a clean financial audit from an independent auditing firm during a work session held Tuesday night in the library of the middle/high school.
New information obtained through police interviews with a Ridgway man accused of robbing a Johnsonburg bank at gunpoint has resulted in charges of theft and related offenses being filed against him.
February 4th
A Ridgway woman who pleaded guilty to withholding insurance payments intended for a local business that performed repair work on her home following a 2011 fire was sentenced in Elk County Court Monday.
A Ridgway man already sentenced to state prison for a rash of camp burglaries that occurred throughout the most remote corners of Elk, McKean and Cameron counties in 2010 and 2011 was sentenced to an additional 16 to 40 years in state prison in Elk County Court on Monday on charges of theft and firearms possession.
February 3rd
PUNXSUTAWNEY — The hour was 7:28 a.m., and right on time, Punxsutawney Phil emerged from his humble abode to the thrill of what the members of his Inner Circle predicted to be a record crowd that had been patiently awaiting his prognostication for hours in the single-digit, below-zero-wind-chill temperatures they'd been battling all night.
JOHNSONBURG – The Johnsonburg Area School District Board of Directors held a workshop Thursday night to review the current and upcoming budget.
February 2nd
PUNXSUTAWNEY – Live from Gobbler's Knob... Punxsy Phil does not see his shadow and reports an early spring!
February 1st
The three-day trial of Francis Anthony Milliard, 55, of Ridgway ended in Elk County Court Friday with the jury returning 'not guilty' verdicts on 18 felony counts of arson and related offenses filed against him in the wake of a 2008 fire at his 115 First Ave. property.
DayInTheLife.jpg "Photo by Alan Freed/The Punxsutawney Spirit – Punxsutawney Phil shows off his personality just moments after delivering his good news to the massive crowd that came out to see his annual prognostication by posing playfully atop the top hat of John Griffiths, who is known inside the circle as Phil's co-handler.")
