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BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner State and local officials gathered along Sunnyside Road on Monday morning to announce the completion of a dump site cleanup. Until this spring, the steep bank between the road and Tunkhannock Creek was...
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BY ROBERT L. BAKER Wyoming County Press Examiner Tunkhannock Township supervisors Monday night named Sgt. Stanley Ely as its new police chief effective immediately. Ely has been on the township police force since Nov. 1992, and replaces Bernard Griff...
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BY ROBERT L. BAKER Staff Writer TUNKHANNOCK TWP. - Supervisors accepted the April 13 resignation of Township Police Chief Bernard Griff, 61, on Monday night. The 21-year veteran of the township police force with the last 12 as chief was thanked "for...
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BY ROBERT L. BAKER Wyoming County Press Examiner TUNKHANNOCK TWP. - An early morning blaze just off Rt. 307, about two miles west of Lake Winola Thursday gutted a house owned by Ken and Gaylene Matalavy. Triton Hose Co. Fire Chief Paul Shaffer said a...
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BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner TUNKHANNOCK TWP. - Emergency officials are keeping an eye on homes in a residential neighborhood near a fuel oil spill west of Tunkhannock on Monday morning. An above-ground tank outside a home in the...
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BY ROBERT L. BAKER Wyoming County Press Examiner Tunkhannock Township supervisors reviewed a request Monday night for signage of a new Tractor Supply store that is apparently moving into part of the old Ames store shell in the Tioga West Shopping Center...
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BY JOSH MROZINSKI Wyoming County Press Examiner TUNKHANNOCK TWP . - Betty and Van Booth were unaware of potential risks youths face while using technology until last Wednesday. Thanks to a forum sponsored by Wyoming County Communities that Care, the Booths...
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BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner TUNKHANNOCK TWP. - A fitness center for women is now open in its new location. Curves opened its doors in the Warner Complex, just west of Tyler Memorial Hospital, last week. According to owner Tammi...
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BY ROBERT L. BAKER Wyoming County Press Examiner Tunkhannock Township supervisors agreed Monday night to sign up by mid-March for a statewide program that allows for a discounted purchase of 300 tons of salt . Known as CO-STARS, the cooperative purchasing...
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BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner TUNKHANNOCK TWP. - A landmark restaurant is back in business. Purkey's Pink Apple opened its doors on Friday atop Mile Hill, retaking the name that had graced it for decades. The restaurant is operated...
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BY JOSH MROZINSKI Wyoming County Press Examiner TUNKHANNCOK TWP. - Members of the Wyoming County Council of Governments continued to ask questions last Tuesday night about a readdressing project. Questions were asked as the group reviewed an ordinance...
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BY ROBERT L. BAKER Wyoming County Press Examiner Township supervisors met Monday night and decided to conduct business much as they had in the past year with Randy White as chairman, Ernest Reich as vice chair, Ken White as road master and Judy Gingher...
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BY JOSH MROZINSKI Wyoming County Press Examiner TUNKHANNOCK TWP. - Bernie Griff has enjoyed 20 years on the Tunkhannock Township Police Department and that is why he said retirement remains distant. "I enjoy the job too much to retire," Griff...
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BY JOSH MROZINSKI Wyoming County Press Examiner TUNKHANNOCK TWP - The Wyoming County Council of Governments reviewed an ordinance on Tuesday that sets procedure for naming streets as part of a readdressing project. The group, however, did not take action...
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BY ROBERT L. BAKER Wyoming County Press Examiner Tunkhannock Township supervisors on Monday night approved a $1.1 million budget for 2009 with no tax increase. With Glenn (Ace) Shupp absent, Randy White and Ernest Reich put their okay to a plan that would...
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