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BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner MEHOOPANY - A Mehoopany man is in jail on charges he burglarized the Pizza Barn restaurant earlier this month. Jimmie Raymond Kreidler, 19, was picked up Wednesday evening and charged with burglary and criminal trespass. According to the complaint filed...
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BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner MEHOOPANY - Now that BP Alternative Energy has postponed its wind park, what will become of Fire Tower Road? That question was asked by Supervisor Eloise Day at last Wednesday's meeting. BP had agreed to maintain the road for the township because...
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BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner MEHOOPANY - The township supervisors accepted a bid last Tuesday (Feb. 10) for the first phase of its downtown improvement project to install sidewalks and streetlights along Main Street. American Asphalt of Wilkes-Barre came in with the low price of...
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BY JOSH MROZINSKI Staff Writer MEHOOPANY - Two teens have been charged with theft by State Police for stealing items from about 20 vehicles between Jan. 10 and Jan. 24. The teens, an 18-year-old male and a 17-year-old male, have confessed to the crimes, according to State Police. The identity of the...
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BY JOSH MROZINSKI Wyoming County Press Examiner TUNKHANNOCK - A Mehoopany man pleaded guilty on Friday to welfare fraud for illegally obtaining $17,644 in food stamps from 2004 through 2007. According to the criminal complaint, Thomas Hummel, 40, of RR 2, Box 252, acquired the food stamps from April...
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BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner MEHOOPANY - Business owners from the Mehoopany area are working to form an organization that would work toward their mutual benefit, and their town as a whole. "The community needs to work together," said Wendy Dunlap of H&D Waste Disposal...
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BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner Once perceived as rebellious, tattoos are now becoming a more accepted form of expression. Some area tattoo artists say there is not the stigma about people with tattoos that there was a few years ago. It has even come to the point where parents are...
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BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner MEHOOPANY - A natural gas company wants to draw water from the Susquehanna River along Jaynes Bend Road for use in its drilling operation. An engineer representing Chesapeake Appalachia told the township supervisors Monday that the company plans to draw...
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BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner A public hearing is set for Wednesday, Jan. 7, to take comments on the effect of the Mehoopany Wind Farm Project on area watersheds. The hearing by the state Department of Environmental Protection is scheduled for 7 to 10 p.m. at Triton Hose Company...
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BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner MEHOOPANY - For the first time in decades, Fire Tower Road will be maintained during the winter. The township supervisors voted Wednesday to take bids for a contractor to plow the road and keep it open through the winter. This is possible because of...
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BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner MEHOOPANY - The kitchen at Margaret Thompson's home was a virtual assembly line on Thursday, as she and friend Yvonne Boice baked for this past Saturday's Pastor's Pie Sale at Mehoopany United Methodist Chruch. It's not an unusual sight...
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BY ERIN MOODY Times-Shamrock Writer A 19-year-old man from Tunkhannock was arrested on multiple charges after leading local and state police on a chase through Wyoming County that started in Tunkhannock Borough and ended in Mehoopany Township on Saturday. According to police, Matthew Keith Drake fled...
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BY JOSH MROZINSKI Wyoming County Press Examiner MEHOOPANY - Unable to salvage anything from a home gutted by a fire early Friday morning, Kim Fulkersin and her family are looking for help. Around 3 a.m. on Friday, a fire gutted the family's home on Bridge Road off Route 87. "Right now, Red Cross...
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BY JOSH MROZINSKI Wyoming County Press Examiner MONTROSE - A Mehoopany teenager has pleaded not guilty in the shooting death of a friend. Chris Magalong, 17, pleaded not guilty and waived his Oct. 14 arraignment in the Susquehanna County Court of Common Pleas. According to police, Magalong shot Francisco...
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