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Prison Board mulls $378K expansion of Bradford County jail
TOWANDA - For Bradford County jail Warden Donald Stewart, the overcrowding problem at the Bradford County jail has come to a head. On Thursday, Stewart asked the Bradford County Prison Board to decide if the county should go forward with a $378,000 const (read more)
DEP Fines Chesapeake Appalachia $565,000 for Multiple Violations
HARRISBURG - The Department of Environmental Protection has fined Chesapeake Appalachia LLC a total of $565,000 in civil penalties and reimbursement costs for erosion and sediment control violations, wetland encroachment violations and an April 2011 well (read more)
Monroeton man attends Super Bowl
Photo: N/A, License: N/A Local man attends big sporting event While countless area football fans watched the New York Giants defeat the New England Patriots on their televisions during Super Bowl XLVI, one local resident had the opportunity of a lifetime - to watch the game liv (read more)
Canton hears about funding situation
Photo: N/A, License: N/A, Created: 2007:01:24 05:38:41 CANTON - The governor has rolled out a new acronym for school districts across Pennsylvania. During Thursday's Canton Area School Board meeting, the school board heard about the Student Achievement Education Block Grant. District business manager Mark Ja (read more)
Western Bradford Notebook: Scholarship Challenge a 'legacy' in Canton, by Eric Hrin
Question: What does it take to be a member of Canton Area School District's Scholarship Challenge Team? Answer: practice, practice, practice. Recently, the Canton team participated in the first qualifier of the Scholarship Challenge competition in Waverl (read more)
State House of Representatives honors library's 100th anniversary
Photo: N/A, License: N/A, Created: 2007:01:22 03:25:24 TROY - The state House of Representatives is congratulating the Allen F. Pierce Free Library in Troy on its 100th anniversary. In a citation from the House sponsored by Rep. Matt Baker, it was noted that the House "congratulates the Allen F. Pierce Free (read more)

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Homelife Special
Former Towanda resident documents experience with airing on WVIA (PBS)
Chuck Felton, a 1955 Towanda High School (THS) graduate who now resides in Lakehills, Texas, embarked on a journey in 2009 to document and recount his memories of life in a sanatorium designed to quarantine and treat patients stricken with forms of Tuberculosis. But this journey soon became much more than he expected, with a site developed by Felton (www.feltondesignanddata.com\cressontbsanatoriumremembered) gaining interest that led to an eventual reunion of patients that were treated at the old Cresson Sanatorium, which now serves as part of the Pennsylvania Corrections system, and the filming of the event by PBS. (read more)

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