Smithfield News

* CHESTNUTHILL TOWNSHIP - Weir Mountain Road between Gilbert Road and Kunkletown Road will be down to one lane in parts as crews work to patch potholes from July 6 to 10.

The music died in Middle Smithfield Township on Wednesday. The Pocono Folk Festival 2009 is canceled just eight days after plans were announced and $150,000 in township money budgeted for the outdoor concert in Echo Lake Park on Aug.

A Uniontown woman whose 2-year-old daughter died in a 2006 traffic crash has settled a federal civil rights lawsuit in which she alleged a Fayette County constable and prison guard conspired to arrest her on a bogus warrant.

Middle Smithfield Township's sewer authority has run out of treatment capacity and is negotiating with Fernwood Resort to buy some capacity from it.

A Fayette County judge has thrown out a failed candidate's civil lawsuit alleging that individuals "impersonated" dead or incapacitated voters during the May 19 primary.

MIDDLE SMITHFIELD, Pa. -- Mr. and Mrs. Caesar Bullock of Middle Smithfield, formerly of Roxbury Township, announce the engagement of their daughter, Erin Whitney Bullock, to Ryan Thomas Waltner.

The up-and-down economy has changed a lot of things for a lot of people. In order to be more cost-efficient, cars are becoming smaller leaving the days of those large muscle cars behind.

Middle Smithfield Elementary School student sold fresh lemonade to a fellow student, second grader Sebrina Cugo.

A failed candidate for the offices of district judge and constable in Fayette County alleged in a civil lawsuit the possibility that individuals "impersonated" dead or incapacitated voters during the May 19 primary.

A moldy cheese sandwich and a long hidden report card were not among the items found Monday in a Smithfield Elementary School time capsule.

You've seen them on television shows and in movies. There will be one in Smithfield Township, too.

Police were in constant contact with Daniel Autenrieth by cell phone as he raced through the Poconos with his 9-year-old son in the car.

Police in Monroe County are investigating two armed robberies early this morning in which a man threatened gas station employees with a box cutter.

It's an on again off again project that's been causing controversy for decades. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation spent millions of tax dollars to get the Marshalls Creek Bypass moving in Monroe County.

Obstetrics, psychiatry and pediatric programs at Pocono Medical Center could be on life support when a new for-profit medical facility opens in Smithfield Township.

Today we are mourning a Stroudsburg man who taught us about history so that it would never ever repeat itself.

Mary Pickels can be reached via e-mail or at 724-836-5401. A Fayette County man accused in the November shooting death of his 12-year-old son pleaded guilty Friday to involuntary manslaughter and received permission to visit the boy's grave.

If the saying goes, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet," then why is a new tourism slogan getting such sour reviews in the Poconos? "I don't really think of a particular place where I hear Upstate PA," said Alan Marmelstein of Stroudsburg.

"I'm worried about her," is the phrase repeated throughout Smithfield by people who have received long, rambling e-mails from Supervisor Christine Griffin on topics ranging from her fear of being stalked by an Army psychiatrist stationed in Afghanistan, to being asked to move into a local man's home and prostitute for him.

Five of Monroe County's 50 voting sites have been moved for the May 19 primaries, with some Coolbaugh Township voters returning to a private community's guard house.