GRANVILLE TWP. - Faced with methane in her well water, Shana Spencer of Granville Township was planning on buying bottled water for her family to use.
But she won't have to go to the grocery store for a while.
On Friday, Talisman Energy delivered 25 one-gallon jugs and five two-and a half gallon jugs of spring water to her house on High Bridge Road, she said.
Spencer, who lives 2,400 feet from Talisman's "Foust" gas well, believes that the methane that has been detected in her water is the result of some type of disturbance from gas well activity in the area. She's been seeking help from Talisman.
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TOWANDA - Franklindale Fire Chief Donald Stranger Sr., who was found guilty of the summary offense of disorderly conduct on Friday, had shoved his hand up in a state police corporal's face "like he was going to hit" the corporal and had refused to obey police commands at the scene of a fire, according to police testimony.
36-year-old Dale Douglas Stranger, who is the assistant chief of the Franklin Township Volunteer Fire Company, pleaded guilty in Towanda District Court Friday to disorderly conduct as a third-degree misdemeanor. Under a plea agreement, the Commonwealth withdrew a lesser charge - the summary offense of disorderly conduct - that had been filed against Dale Stranger.
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MAINESBURG - Troy firefighters were among those responding to a fire that destroyed a house around 1 p.m. Friday in Mainesburg, Tioga County, Pa..
Mansfield Fire Chief Jim Welch said a male in the house was injured in the fire and taken to the hospital. In addition to Troy, those assisting Mansfield were firefighters from the Blossburg, Tioga, Big Elm, and Wellsboro fire departments. He said the home was "a total loss."
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Following a fatal accident Thursday at one of its drilling sites in Towanda Township, Chesapeake Energy Corp. has shut down operations at the site and is actively investigating the cause of the employee's death, a Chesapeake official said Friday.
OSHA on Friday said it has also launched an investigation into the death of the employee, 31-year-old Greg Allen Henry of Athens, Tenn.
An OSHA investigator went to the scene of the accident on Friday, said Fred Reschauer, assistant director of OSHA's regional office in Wilkes-Barre.
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Rehabilitation project in Bradford County to resume work March 22; contract funded by American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
PennDOT District 3 announced in a press release Friday that work will resume on a project to rehabilitate a bridge on Route 187 in Bradford County. The contract is being funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
The release continues:
The Durell Bridge, as it is known, will receive new paved shoulders, new parapets and an epoxy overlay on the deck.
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Waverly Police said that they recently arrested two Waverly, N.Y. youths for misdemeanor arson in the fifth degree following investigation into the cause of a box trailer fire at the Rynone Manufacturing Plant at 140 Providence Street, Waverly N.Y.
The incident was reported to police and fire officials at 4:48 p.m. on March 5, 2010, police said.
Police said a 16-year-old male youth and a 14-year-old youth have been accused of intentionally starting the fire.
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