Bradford News

In passing the $700 billion emergency economic rescue plan on Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives also approved a four-year, $3.3 billion extension to Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act, which was attached to bailout plan.

Officials of Continental Airlines and Gulfstream International Airlines were at Bradford Regional Airport on Thursday for a reception welcoming Gulfstream to the airport.

Gulfstream, which actually initiated flights from Bradford on Wednesday, acts as a Continental Connection for Continental with direct flight to Cleveland’s Hopkins International Airport.

The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford inducted three women into its Athletic Hall of Fame on Saturday.

Jessica Coene of Baden, Nichole Spindler of Bradford and Amanda Gressley Reese of Shinglehouse were the 2008 inductees.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. John Peterson just gave notice that he’ll move out of his Washington apartment later this month. In his Capitol Hill office, he and his staff have begun emptying bookshelves and filling cardboard boxes.

Down will come the wall map of the Gulf Coast oil platforms, the framed photos of north-central Pennsylvania, the pennants from the schools that dot his sprawling, rural congressional district. Sometime this fall, the movers will cart away the small, round conference table at which, Peterson believes, he helped persuade a key John McCain adviser of the importance of offshore drilling.

Some Interstate Parkway residents are concerned about oil and gas drilling and what it's going to do to their water.

Joe Piganelli told Foster Township Supervisors during their meeting Monday night that US Energy said they would test a water sample and give them the results in a couple of weeks. That was about four months ago, he said.

Jeff and Joan Guterman of Allegany, N.Y., have endowed a scholarship to benefit the students in the program Guterman directs at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, where he is an associate professor of communications.

The Jeffrey and Joan Guterman Broadcast Communications Scholarship will provide scholarships to deserving undergraduate students who have a grade point average of at least 3.0 and are enrolled at or planning to enroll at Pitt-Bradford in broadcast communications.

Natural gas no longer exists in the Mt. Jewett water supply wells.

“We took samples Friday and found no gas in the wells,” said Freda Tarbell, a spokesman for the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). “It’s very favorable.”

The presence of gas Sept. 25 prompted the (DEP) to declare six supply wells temporarily out of service. Without the supply from the wells, the Mt. Jewett Borough Water Authority was unable to meet the daily demand of 100,000 gallons of water for its 500 customers.

Because the Fifth Congressional District is geographically one of the largest in the nation, Democratic candidate Mark McCracken realizes, "It has to be a learning experience for anybody who is running."

McCracken, 44, a Clearfield County commissioner and former school board member, says he is gradually learning about the northwestern tip of the sprawling 17-county district.

"I've had to learn about the Allegheny National Forest," McCracken said. "The national forest was something I certainly knew about but I didn't realize how many sides there were to the story here."

These days little Chandon Hitchcock is giving his family and friends lots of big smiles thanks to an international agency that provided reconstructive surgery for him.

Zippo Manufacturing Company and Moderati Inc. today announced the launch of the Virtual Zippo Lighter, a free, branded application available in Apple's iTunes App Store for the iPhone and the iPod Touch.

Dr. Stephen Robar, director of environmental studies at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, introduces the candidates for a forum Thursday at the college.

Mary Williams and Dick Tyger stand with a new sign posted at the Kane recycling area in a parking lot on North Fraley Street.

While the $700 billion bailout plan was passed in the U.S. Senate Wednesday and seemed to also gain approval in the House, Bradford Main Street business owners had mixed reactions.

The water situation in Mount Jewett “seems to be resolving,” according to state Department of Environmental Protection spokeswoman Freda Tarbell.

The Allegany State Park Region Commission Tuesday endorsed a roughly $8 million budget for the regiona s four state parks - Allegany, Long Point, Lake Erie and Midway - for 2009-10.

The Kane area economy has suffered another blow with the closing of the Legacy Technologies operation at its first plant at 500 Pine Street, Wetmore Township.

Legacy at one time employed about 50 at its Kane plant, according to Jim Pitzer, production manager. He said Legacy Technologies, Inc. will continue its operation at its new $3 million facility in Mission, Kan. near Kansas City.

The State Labor Department reports Potter County's jobless rate went up 6/10ths of a percent between July and August to 7.5%.The figure compared to 7.3% a year ago.

The North Central Pennsylvania Regional Planning and Development Commission has been awarded the 2008 Excellence in Regional Transportation award from the National Association of Development Organization for its regional transportation planning Web portal.

BRADFORD, Pa. Producers of the "Little Chicago" movie came out with more news this week when they announced that a new director, Jason Wiles, has taken over the reins of the film.

The engineer of the Norfolk Southern train that derailed June 30, 2006, pleaded guilty Monday in McKean County Court to causing a catastrophe and improperly disposing of hazardous waste, and will serve nearly a year in jail.

Michael Seifert, 47, of Buffalo, N.Y., was sentenced to one year minus one day to two years minus two days in McKean County Jail. He was also given credit for 18 days of time served and ordered to perform 600 hours of community service.