Polk News

<![CDATA[MOUNT OLIVE: Members of the Flanders-based Boy Scout Troop 156 competed in the annual Black River District Klondike Derby at Camp Trexler in Polk, Pa. last month. The boys pulled a sled to 13 different stations where they showed off their Scout skills and competed to see which troop had best learned those skills. The boys finished in 18th place out of 53 teams.

Gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale is booming in many parts of Pennsylvania. While Erie County has not seen much activity, we will soon.

I admit I felt a little like Dan Brown investigating the Priory of Sion in Da Vinci Code as I stepped into the 3rd and Lombard Street graveyard of St.