by Bruce Whitman Echo News Editor Pennsylvania Game Commission officials recently announced a plan to alleviate conflicts caused by a large number of elk in the Weedville area. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
Seven Cameron County High School students recently had the opportunity to visit the Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg coordinated by the students and Cameron County Outdoor Youth Activities (CCOYA). The Pennsylvania Farm Show is the largest indoor agricultural event in the nation, featuring nearly 6,000 animals, 10,000 competitive exhibits and 300 commercial exhibitors. […]
by Bruce Whitman Echo News Editor Organizers of a benefit held Sunday for two Lumber Township employees badly injured in a work-related accident in November, report over $2,000 has been raised. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
The Sinnamahoning Volunteer Fire Department met last week to elect company and line officers for 2013. Butch Kehl remains president of the company with Bruce Whitman, vice president, and Donna Kehl secretary/treasurer. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
Cameron County’s Local Emergency Planning Committee met last week to conduct business and elect officers for 2013 terms. Adam Johnson will remain as LEPC Chairman, with Laura Narby serving as secretary and Kevin Johnson, treasurer (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
The Cameron County schools and the Elk County schools, have been introduced to “The Trout in the Classroom” programs. These programs were started through the efforts of The James Zwald Chapter # 314 of Cameron and Elk Counties who have secured start up grants for the TIC programs. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in […]
by Bruce Whitman Echo News Editor Construction is expected to begin this spring on the long awaited new Driftwood Senior Center. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
by Amanda Jones Cameron County Echo Emporium resident Anna McFall plans to leave one week after her graduation from Geneva College to spend one year in an Arabic-speaking Middle Eastern country as a Missionary with the Christian Missionary Alliance (CMA) Church. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
An individual charged with over 100 counts of burglary of camps in Elk, Cameron and McKean counties, was sentenced in Elk County Court last week.
by Amanda Jones Cameron County Echo Last week, Commissioners briefly discussed new electronics disposal guidelines issued by the state that will affect what items may be collected by municipal crews (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
by Amanda Jones Cameron County Echo Prior to January’s regular meeting, Shippen Township held its annual re-organizational meeting to cover positions vacated with the resignation of former Supervisor John Malizia. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
Organizers expect a huge turnout for Sunday’s benefit event for two Lumber Township employees who were injured in a November truck accident on Route 120. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
by Amanda Jones Cameron County Echo Chief John Lovett and Emporium Borough Council President Joe Fragale presented the four men credited with saving the life of Krista Losey during an apartment fire on December 27th with Commendations for their heroism and selfless acts. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s […]
The unemployment rate in Cameron County increased by nearly one percent in November, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
by Amanda Jones Cameron County Echo Tourism and revenue generated from related industries are showing an upward trend across the thirteen-county region of the PA Wilds, according to a study recently released by Tennessee-based company North Star Destination Strategies. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
by Amanda Jones Cameron County Echo Elk State Forest employees are assisting with a multi-year state-wide study aimed at gathering more information on the Golden Eagle and its migration habits. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
The Endless Mountain Chapter 34 of ABATE of Pennsylvania will hold a benefit for two Lumber Township employees who were seriously injured in an accident on Route 120 in November. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
by Amanda Jones Cameron County Echo Citizens and organizations across the country are lowering flags and coordinating activities to bolster support for the victims of Friday’s tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
by Amanda Jones Cameron County Echo A local nature-enthusiast and writer recently received a prestigious award from the Pennsylvania Forestry Association (PFA). (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
by Bruce Whitman Echo News Editor Cameron County and indeed, all of Northcentral Pennsylvania, is taking a wait and see approach to what 2013 holds for drilling in the Marcellus Shale gas play. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
by Bruce Whitman Echo News Editor Cameron County Commissioners meet Wednesday (December 19) and are expected to approve the county’s 2013 budget. The proposed budget calls for $7.5 million in expenditures, nearly a mirror image of the 2012 budget. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
The Echo office will be open Thursday, Dec. 20th, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. It will be closed Friday, Dec. 21st through Wednesday, Dec. 26th, when it will reopen at its regular hours. The next issue of the Echo will be Jan. 2, 2013. Merry Christmas! (Full Story available on the newsstands, […]
by Bruce Whitman Echo News Editor Cameron County Commissioners continue to review their options surrounding the removal of the positions of Jury Commissioner. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
Emporium Borough Council Monday night pretty much wrapped up business for the year with official adoption of the 2013 budget. The no tax increase budget calls for spending of $1,174,749. The document anticipates revenues of an equal amount. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
Assault charges against Steven Crespo have been bound over to Cameron County Court. Crespo, 26, is charged with aggravated assault and simple assault for a July 4 incident inwhich he allegedly attacked Harry Erskine of Emporium. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
Cameron County’s jobless rate showed slight improvement in October, according to information provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry’s Center for Workforce Information. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
by Amanda Jones Cameron County Echo At Thursday’s Cameron County School Board meeting, members discussed disciplinary actions and policy adoption, heard from concerned parents and handled a wealth of regular business. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
by Bruce Whitman Echo News Editor The tone of conversation between Emporium Borough and state officials about potential flood problems improved considerably last week. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
Cameron County is once again poised to rank among the state’s leaders for bear hunting. A state-wide firearms bruin season opens Saturday and continues through Wednesday, November 21. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
by Bruce Whitman Echo News Editor Down County residents who depend on the Sinnemahoning Post Office for their mail service last week learned that the community will retain its office, but hours will drastically be reduced. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
Cameron County stuck to the Republican line in last week’s Presidential Election, bucking the national trend which gave President Obama another four years in office. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
by Bruce Whitman Echo News Editor Jury selection and a federal trial for Thomas Smith of Emporium will be delayed until February 4, in the U.S. District Court in Williamsport. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
by Bruce Whitman Echo News Editor Emporium Borough Council moved to advertise a 2013 budget with no tax increase. Total budgeted expenditures come to $1,174,749 and match anticipated revenues. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
Sandy never kept her date with Cameron County and that’s fine. She wasn’t the kind of girl we wanted to associate with anyhow. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
While most people in the U.S. are preparing for holiday activities, Emporium volunteers with Operation Christmas Child—the world’s largest Christmas project of its kind—are filling shoe box gifts with toys, school supplies and hygiene items for needy children overseas. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
The Emporium Volunteer Fire Department responded to two calls Sunday. The first was for a fire in an outside metal storage shed at the Malizia home in Sunrise Acres. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
The unemployment rate in Cameron County slipped slightly during the month of September according to state Department of Labor & Industry figures. Cameron County’s rate climbed slightly to 11.5 percent, up from 11 percent for the month of August. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
Cameron County Commissioners have announced a revised schedule of their November meetings. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
by Bruce Whitman Echo News Editor After deliberating more than two hours, a Cameron County jury last week found Stanley Whiting not guilty of all charges, including burglary. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
by Bruce Whitman Echo News Editor With the Presidential election fast approaching, more than 3,000 voters are registered here in Cameron County. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
Come and Run With the Big Dogs at the Sinnemahoning State Park! Canadian-American Sledders Dry – Land Races will be held Saturday and Sunday, November 3 and 4. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! The halls will be decked in time for this year’s Holiday House Tour during Christmas in the Wilds on Friday, December 7. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
by Bruce Whitman Echo News Editor An Emporium man, Matthew Eric Shipley, appeared in Cameron County Court last Tuesday for sentencing on a driving after imbibing charge. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
Applications for the 5th round of grants from the Sinnemahoning Watershed Grant Program are now being accepted. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
by Bruce Whitman Echo News Editor Cameron County will shortly receive $97,081.68 as its share of Pennsylvania’s new Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling impact fee revenue program. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
by Amanda Jones Cameron County Echo Wednesday’s regular meeting saw Cameron County Commissioners focused mainly on upcoming construction projects across the county. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
The Wildlife Center at Sinnemahoning State Park is planning an All Hallows Eve celebration Friday night. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
Members of the Cameron County Local Emergency Planning Committee learned last Wednesday that a cleanup of the former Design Metal Plating facility at 209 Sizer Road is nearing completion. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
by Bruce Whitman Echo News Editor CareerLink has moved to a new location in Emporium and will now be able to offer Cameron County residents expanded hours of service. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
Familiar faces appeared in new places at Monday night’s meeting of Emporium Borough Council. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo) Among the matter if you decided to be able to tell you don’t want to create a paper that is not the variety of day around […]
by Bruce Whitman Echo News Editor Sinnemahoning State Park has issued an urgent call for witches, goblins and ghouls. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
A public hearing was held in Harrisburg Monday to detail a report that could lead to the elimination of the school property tax in Pennsylvania (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
by Bruce Whitman Echo News Editor Steven Rebert, who resided for a short time in Emporium, has appealed his double-murder conviction to the state Supreme Court. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
Take a trip back in time and come to Sizerville State Park Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. for the 22nd annual Autumn Festival. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
St. James/St. Mark Community Bike Ride and Picnic will be held Sunday, October 7th. The event is for everyone, but those under nine years old must have an adult present. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
by Amanda Jones Cameron County Echo A recently-apprehended fugitive who was extradited to Pennsylvania and convicted of escape made an appearance at the Cameron County Courthouse on Friday to face multiple charges including the rape of a child. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
by Bruce Whitman Echo News Editor A 20-year-old Emporium man will serve 12 to 24 months in state prison after entering a guilty plea to a felony charge of burglary last Tuesday in Cameron County Court. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
by Amanda Jones Cameron County Echo One of the men charged in more than 100 burglaries across six north central Pennsylvania counties has had his sentencing postponed. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
by Amanda Jones Cameron County Echo Cameron County Commissioners discussed ongoing efforts to keep PennDOT dispatch services in the county during their regular meeting on Wednesday. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
by Amanda Jones Cameron County Echo Around noon on Thursday, Shippen Township employees discovered a bag with live kittens had been thrown in the dumpster in the front parking lot. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
The Cameron County Local Emergency Planning Committee will meet Wednesday, October 17, at the Sinnemahoning Wildlife Center. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
by Bruce Whitman Echo News Editor Thomas Smith, accused of kidnapping an Emporium bank employee at gunpoint, has entered a plea of not guilty during a federal preliminary hearing in Williamsport. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
by Bruce Whitman Echo News Editor Every September since 2001, Cameron County residents have gathered on North Broad Street in Emporium to remember the tragic events of 9/11. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
by Amanda Jones Cameron County Echo During Thursday’s regular meeting, members of the Cameron County School Board voted on a number of expenditures which will be funded through the contingency budget because they were not allotted for at the beginning of the fiscal year. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s […]
by Bruce Whitman Echo News Editor A St. Marys man is believed to be the lone area hunter drawn for an elk license for the 2012 season. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
On Sunday, September 23rd the First Baptist Church, 424 North Broad St., will be sponsoring “Founder’s Day”. The church family will be celebrating 145 years in the ministry. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo) who can i pay to write my essay report review Many will contend […]
The Walk to End Alzheimer’s in Emporium will be Sunday, Sept. 23rd at Cameron County High School. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
by Bruce Whitman Echo News Editor A 27-day manhunt for fugitive Thomas Edward Smith ended without incident Labor Day evening when Smith turned himself into law enforcement officers in Emporium. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)
Local resident and gospel singer, Glen Lucas still can’t believe his luck. After playing the lottery pretty much since it began, he finally hit it big last Tuesday. On his weekly lottery numbers check at Emporium Pharmacy, employees were acting a little strangely as he checked his tickets. Glen found out later that […]
by Bruce Whitman Echo News Editor A day of combined remembrance will be observed in Emporium on Tuesday, September 11. (Full Story available on the newsstands, in this week’s Cameron County Echo)