Monica A. Crowley, 69, of Turtlepoint, PA

Monica A. Crowley

Port Allegany - Monica A. Crowley, 69, of Turtlepoint, PA, died Saturday (November 9, 2019) in the UPMC-Cole, Coudersport, PA.

She was born Aug. 25, 1950 in Port Allegany, a daughter of Daniel S. and Judith A. Petrie Crowley.

Miss Crowley was a graduate of Port Allegany Class of 1968 and was employed at Ball-Incon as receiving clerk, retiring in 2012.

She was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Sartwell. She enjoyed spending time with her family and friends.

She is survived by:

Two brothers: Daniel J. Crowley and Andrew J. (Debbra) Crowley, both of Turtlepoint

One sister: Amy Ayers of Port Allegany

And many nieces and nephews

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by one brother, Stephen H. Crowley.

In keeping with Monica’s wishes, there will be no visitation or funeral services at this time.

Burial will be in St. Mary’s Cemetery, Sartwell.

Memorials, if desired, may be made to a charity of the donor’s choice. Online condolences may be made at www.hartle-tarboxfuneralhomes.com.

Arrangements are under the direction of the Hartle-Tarbox Funeral Homes, Inc., Port Allegany.

Roulette Ambulance To Second Street

At 6:51 PM on Saturday, Roulette Ambulance dispatched to Second Street for a man ill.

Roulette Ambulance to Main Street

At 4:54 PM on Saturday, Roulette Ambulance has been dispatched to Main Street for a man ill.

Andover Dispatched with Tanker to Garage Fire

At 4:36 PM on Saturday, Andover has been requested to send a tanker to 2725 Rt. 248 in Greenwood to assist with a working garage fire.

Elk in the Church Yard, Driftwood, PA

Pic of Elk in church yard in Driftwood, PA

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Lori L. Kremer, 56, of Bradford, PA

Lori L. Kremer

Lori L. Kremer, 56, of Bradford, PA, passed away on Saturday, November 9, 2019 at the Bradford Regional Medical Center.

She was born on December 31, 1962 in Bradford, a daughter of the late Earl and Shirley Bunce Simmons.

On September 26, 1987 in Bradford she married David E. Kremer who survives.

Lori enjoyed playing bingo and making trips to the casino. She loved spending time with her family; especially her grandchildren.

She worked as a CNA at various local nursing homes during her lifetime.

In addition to her husband of thirty two years, David Kremer of Bradford she is also survived by four daughters, Holly Major, Pattianne (Jon Meacham) Kremer, Erin Johnson and Haley (Michael) Troupe, all of Bradford, four sisters, two brothers, nine grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

In addition to her parents she was also preceded in death by one sister.

At the family’s request there will be no visitation. A private celebration of her life will be held at the convenience of the family.

Funeral arrangements are entrusted to the care of the Mascho Funeral Home, Inc.

Online Condolences can be expressed at www.maschofuneral.com.

Roulette Ambulance to Trout Brook Road

At 2:11 PM on Saturday, Roulette Ambulance has been dispatched to Trout Brook Road for epitaxis.

Ridgway Dispatched For Wires Down on Montmorenci Road

At 2:11 PM on Saturday, Ridgway Fire Dept dispatched to the area of 733 Montmorenci Road for wires down across the roadway.

Eldred Thrift Store Closing Soon; Stock Up Now

Events Scheduled Over The Weekend; More events in free listing on lower right side of blog.

Pumpkin Roll Fundraiser, St. Eulalia

11-10 Veteran's Day Breakfast in Austin

11-10 revival, Eldred, PA

11-10 Bingo, Coudy Fire Hall, Volunteers That Care

Last game of BINGO on Sunday is an extra $5.00 “Black out game”. Total prize for that game is $300. Come support our local cancer patients!

11-10 Soup Supper, 50+ Free, Port Allegany, PA

11-11 Rummage & Bake Sale, Little Genesee, NY

Bradford Dispatched For Natural Gas Leak

At 12:30 PM on Saturday, Bradford City Firefighters dispatched to a natural gas leak in a residence at 94 Kennedy Street.

Ron Newcomer is PennDOT Employee of the Month

Ron Newcomer is PennDOT District 3 employee of the month for November 2019.

Ron is the Contract Management Supervisor in the district office. He oversees proposal preparations as well as prepares proposals for large projects. He is also responsible for coordinating construct-ability and scheduling efforts.

Ron is a dedicated employee, putting in a lot of his own time over the last year making sure there are no problems with posting bid package addenda on time to meet let dates. He also spent a lot of time overseeing, maintaining a spreadsheet on project status, and preparing proposals for road and bridge repairs from the Summer 2018 storms.

In addition, Ron was a tremendous help in locating old plans and information to enable our environmental section to complete mandatory reviews to comply with Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System/National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (MS4/NPDES) requirements.

He is friendly, always willing to help others and is always teaching others on what needs to go into the proposals and how the bid package process works.

Ron is also one of the leaders of the fundraising effort for the Harold “Donald” Whipple scholarship, which honors one of District 3’s fallen employees.

Ron and wife Teri live in Jersey Shore and are the parents of three daughters; Samantha Wain, Hillary Leonard and Mallory Delaney.

Headline Harrisburg by Rep. Matt Gabler

Facebook Website Bio Latest News State Forms Photo Gallery Contact Headline Harrisburg Friday, November 8, 2019 The latest news from the State Capitol This email includes: New Law Supports #GoodJobs4PA Elk County Alert Thank You For Your Service Thanking Our Veterans Grant Program to Boost Agriculture Industry’s Future Driver License, Photo Centers Closed for Veterans Day   New Law Supports #GoodJobs4PA

Following through on our commitment to improve career and technical education (CTE) through our #GoodJobs4PA legislative package, a new state law will make the most significant reforms to our CTE laws in more than three decades. Act 76 of 2019, which was signed into law last week, will help ensure our students are better prepared for success in the workforce while at the same time attracting employers and economic development to the Commonwealth. To ensure students are well informed about their choices, the law expands an online database of articulation agreements so students know what courses may transfer between higher education institutions and requires schools to give equal opportunity to both college and career presenters at career fairs. The measure also requires the Pennsylvania Workforce Development Board, with assistance from the Department of Education, to conduct a survey to determine the number and types of workforce development programs offered at secondary and postsecondary institutions. To support CTE programs financially, Act 76 sets into law guidelines for CTE equipment grants and establishes the Schools-to-Work Program within the Department of Labor and Industry to provide grants to pre-apprenticeship programs for the purpose of establishing or enhancing workforce development partnerships between schools, employers, organizations or associations to create employment and training pathways.

Elk County Alert

This Wednesday, Nov. 13, West Penn Power will be instituting a planned power interruption between 9:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. in Benezette Township and the Cameron County municipalities of Driftwood, Gibson Township and Grove Township. This event is necessary to make much-needed repairs and will affect approximately 977 commercial and residential customers, each of whom will be notified via a phone message. No action is required on your behalf. If you have any questions or need to update your account phone number, please call customer service at 1-800-686-0021.

Thank You For Your Service

Congratulations to Patrolmen Zachary Cowan and Elliott Neeper of the Lawrence Township Police Department and State Trooper Brian Elensky Sr. of Troop C on being recognized as “Top Guns” at the recent PA DUI Association’s annual meeting. They are among more than 70 officers to be recognized statewide for having shown “a demonstrated commitment to DUI enforcement.” DUI Top Gun Award winners are evaluated by a statistical method that considers factors that include department size, total DUI arrests made by the department, hours worked by the officer and number of DUI arrests made by the officer.

Thanking Our Veterans

Throughout the nation this weekend, communities will mark Veterans Day with a variety of parades, ceremonies and dedications. Veterans Day, originally known as Armistice Day, first marked the one-year anniversary of the end of World War I, on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month and sought to honor the veterans of the World War – the only world war to have occurred at that time. Armistice Day was declared a national holiday in 1938 to acknowledge world peace, and then renamed Veterans Day in 1954 to celebrate the contributions of veterans of all wars. For more about the history of Veterans Day, click here.

Grant Program to Boost Agriculture Industry’s Future

A grant program aimed at securing the future of the state’s agriculture industry is now accepting applications. The Ag and Youth Grant Program, created by the General Assembly under Act 40 of 2019, provides direct and matching grants to help fund eligible projects, programs and equipment purchases conducted or made by organizations composed mainly of youth and organized to promote development in agriculture, community leadership, vocational training and peer fellowship. Eligible projects include education or workforce development seminars or field trips; agricultural safety training programs; and capital projects or equipment purchases. The deadline to apply is Nov. 29. Click here for additional information.

Driver License, Photo Centers Closed for Veterans Day

PennDOT’s full-service center in Harrisburg and all of its driver license and photo centers will be closed for Veterans Day this Saturday, Nov. 9, through Monday, Nov. 11.

Customers may still obtain a variety of driver and vehicle products and services, including all forms, publications and driver training manuals, online through PennDOT’s Driver and Vehicle Services website, www.dmv.pa.gov.

Driver and vehicle online services are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week and include driver’s license, photo ID and vehicle registration renewals; driver-history services; changes of address; driver license and vehicle registration restoration letters; ability to pay driver license or vehicle insurance restoration fee; driver license and photo ID duplicates; and driver exam scheduling. No additional fees are charged for using online services.

Potter County Commissioners Meeting Agenda for the November 7 Meeting

CLOSING IN ON RECORD-BREAKING BEAR SEASON

Pennsylvania has covered a third of the distance needed to set a state record black bear harvest.

Through an early archery bear season in selected Wildlife Management Units (WMUs), two new October firearms bear seasons and the first week of a two-week statewide archery bear season, Pennsylvania hunters took a preliminary harvest of 1,540 bears. A statewide four-day firearms bear season is set start Nov. 23, and two extended bear seasons of varying lengths in selected WMUs start Nov. 30.

Last year, hunters took a total of 3,153 bears – Pennsylvania’s 11th best bear harvest – in an early archery bear season in selected WMUs, a shorter statewide archery season, the statewide firearms and extended seasons in selected WMUs. Taking as many bears in subsequent weeks would topple the current record bear harvest of 4,350 set in 2011.

“Last year, was the 11th best bear harvest in state history, but it also was the lowest bear harvest over the past 11 years,” noted Game Commission Executive Director Bryan Burhans. “Bad breaks with weather on peak hunting days held the harvest back.

“But if Pennsylvania has good hunting weather on peak hunting days in the coming general firearms and extended bear seasons, and hunter productivity remains as it has been in recent years, the state’s bear hunters could set a new state record.”

Penn’s Woods has maintained a substantial bear population of about 20,000 the past four years, despite removing more than 17,000 bears from the statewide population over the past five years. That the average annual harvest over the past five years has been about 3,500 bears suggests taking at least another 3,000 to set a new state record in the ongoing archery and coming firearms bear seasons is a realistic possibility.

“Surely it’s hard for some to imagine Pennsylvania has such a vibrant black bear population,” noted Matt Lovallo, the Game Commission’s Game Mammals Section Supervisor. “But bears are incredibly adaptable; they can fit in almost anywhere that offers them cover and reliable food sources. It’s why bears are found in more places in Pennsylvania than anytime in the Game Commission’s existence.”

Last year, bears were taken in 60 of 67 counties. Additionally, 70 bears weighing 500 pounds or more, including 20 weighing 600 pounds or more and two that topped 700 pounds, were part of the 2018 harvest. And the possibility of even larger bears remains.

“Pennsylvania bear hunters already have taken a few 800-pounders, and the odds remain good for it to happen again,” Lovallo said. “However, it’s no small feat for a bear to reach that size when you consider it takes about nine years for a bear to reach 500 pounds.”

But when it comes to record bears, it’s not all about the weight. Pennsylvania is No. 2 among all states and Canadian provinces in the number of black-bear entries in Boone & Crockett Club records, which are based on skull size.

For the second consecutive year, 27 bears, including five taken with archery tackle, were added to Pennsylvania’s Big Game Records book in 2019, according to Bob D’Angelo, who coordinates the state’s program.

All but 10 of those bears also qualified for entry into Boone & Crockett Club records.

A bear qualifies for the state book if the combined length and width of its skull is at least 19 inches if taken with a firearm or 17 inches if taken with archery tackle.

Boone & Crockett Club has a 20-inch minimum entry requirement.

The black bear’s tenacity to persevere in a state with 12 million residents and amidst increasing hunting pressure is what compelled the Game Commission earlier this year to double the number of statewide bear-hunting days, creating the state’s lengthiest bear-hunting opportunity since the 1930s.

“It’s the largest suite of bear-season changes ever approved in a single year,” noted Lovallo. “In most of the state, we’re going from 14 or 16 days of bear hunting to 32, from three Saturdays to seven, and we started hunting bears almost two weeks earlier.”

Pennsylvania’s best bear general firearms seasons have been supported by clear, cold weather, with a little tracking snow. Significant icing, rain or fog, or a good dumping of snow during the season, can hold the bear harvest down, because hunters have a harder time getting to or from their favorite hunting spots, the bears are harder to see, and overall participation generally drops.

“If you haven’t bought your bear license yet and you’d like to be afield to hopefully help set the next Pennsylvania bear harvest record, there’s still time,” emphasized Burhans. “It’s an extraordinary opportunity, a chance help make history. Don’t miss it!”

Through Nov. 3, 169,708 bear licenses were sold. In recent years, annual bear license sales have topped out between 170,000 to 175,000. In the 2018-19 license year, 174,869 bear licenses were sold. The record for bear license sales occurred in 2015, when 175,314 were sold.

More bear hunters is always good for bear hunting, because their drives and movements regularly chase bears from the cover in which they prefer to hide. And once they’re on the move, hunters have greater opportunity.

But bears are great at sitting tight. It’s how they manage to become so big.

Pennsylvania’s has been a premier bear-hunting destination for decades. But in recent years, its popularity has grown, given the size of its bear population and the size of the bears hunters are taking.

But make no mistake, bears are a hard species to hunt. Their densities rarely exceed one bear per-square-mile, and bear-hunter success rates typically fall between 2 and 3 percent.

The key to taking a bear is tied to scouting just before season for areas with abundant fall foods and fresh sign of bear activity. Conducting hunting-party drives through thickets also is effective.

Requirements

Hunters who harvest a bear during the four-day general season must take it to one of the Game Commission’s check stations within 24 hours.

A complete list of requirements, check stations and their dates and hours of operation can be found on in the 2019-20 Pennsylvania Hunting & Trapping Digest, which can be viewed online at www.pgc.pa.gov. or purchased with a hunting license.

What you need

To bear hunt in Pennsylvania, a hunter needs a general hunting license, as well as a bear license.

Hunting licenses can be purchased online from The Outdoor Shop at the Game Commission’s website, or issuing agents located in every county of the Commonwealth. But licenses purchased online cannot be used until they are received through the mail, because bear licenses contain harvest ear tags.

Licensing agents can be searched by county at the Game Commission’s website, www.pgc.pa.gov, under the Hunt/Trap tab.

Bear hunters must wear a minimum of 250 square inches of fluorescent orange material on the head, chest and back combined at all times during the four-day general firearms season. The orange must be visible from 360 degrees.

Don’t Forget

· Hunters are required to carry photo identification while hunting.

· Plan your hunt and hunt your plan; it ensures someone knows where you are.

· Carry a cellphone in case of emergencies.

· Make sure you’ve thought about how you’d remove a bear from the woods if

you take one.

· It is illegal to use baits and lures in beahunting. If you find bait while scouting or hunting, report

it to the Game Commission.

· Always carry a compass and map in the big woods.

Potter County Commissioners Meeting Minutes for the October 10 Meeting

Potter County Commissioners Meeting Minutes for the October 24 Meeting

Austin man victim of Assault

District 9 Football Playoff 11/8/19 Coudersport 35, Smethport 6

11/8/19 Football: Coudersport 35, Smethport 6

District 9 Football Playoff 11/8/19
Coudersport 35
Smethport 6

Sunken Branch Photography

Coudersport State Police make a DUI arrest in Roulette

PSP Coudersport investigating a Burglary

PSP Coudersport received a cell phone found on the Cherry Springs Rd. area

Coudersport woman charged with DUI Drugs

PSP Coudersport investigating an incident of Theft by Deception

No injuries when Westfield driver loses control and hits a utility pole

Middlebury Center man died of natural causes

No injuries in two vehicle accident

PA Gas Drilling Permit Issued in Liberty Twp

PA Gas Drilling Permit Issued in Liberty Twp Township

Description: Gas permit issued on 2019-11-04 00:00:00 to SWN PROD CO LLC for site CONNOLLY B 7H in Liberty Twp township, Tioga county

Incident Date/Time: 2019-11-04 00:00:00

Tags: PADEP, frack, permit, drilling, Gas

PA Gas Drilling Permit Issued in Liberty Twp Township

Description: Gas permit issued on 2019-11-04 00:00:00 to SWN PROD CO LLC for site CONNOLLY B 3H in Liberty Twp township, Tioga county

Incident Date/Time: 2019-11-04 00:00:00

Tags: PADEP, frack, permit, drilling, Gas

PA Gas Drilling Permit Issued in Liberty Twp Township

Description: Gas permit issued on 2019-11-04 00:00:00 to SWN PROD CO LLC for site CONNOLLY B 2H in Liberty Twp township, Tioga county

Incident Date/Time: 2019-11-04 00:00:00

Tags: PADEP, frack, permit, drilling, Gas

Christmas Time Coming to Downtown Emporium

The success of The North Pole in a vacant storefront in Emporium spearheading downtown businesses to repeat the experience at Sarah Janes Art Studio in the former Cappy’s building at 5 East Fourth Street in Emporium. The store will be decorated floor to ceiling and offering activities for not only children but adults.
Christmas Time will open November 30 in conjunction with Shop Small Saturday. Santa will be on hand from 10-2pm. Each weekend through December Sarah Janes Art Studio will host events. On Sunday December 1, children will be encouraged to stop by for a story and hot cocoa. Friday December 6 an adult Plaid Party will be held. On Saturday December 7 Santa will be available for family pictures and Sunday December 8 in the afternoon an adult boxwood wreath making class will be held. On Friday December 13, the storefront will be one of the stops on the Cameron County House Tour, Saturday December 14 will be a great time to visit during Christmas in the Wilds and Santa will spend the afternoon. On Sunday December 15 families are invited to Sarah Janes Art Studio to decorate cookies baked by Aroma Café. Friday December 20, adults are invited to a wine and wrap party and Santa will make his last visit on Saturday December 21 from 11-3.

Sarah Nolan owner of Sarah Janes Art Studio along with Cherie Miller owner of CDH Designs say they are excited to bring the magic of Christmas to the downtown for not only children but also adults. They promise there will be an elf class offered to children by one of Santa’s special helpers. That class will be announced later in November. All the children’s activities are free say the organizers.

Inside Sarah Janes studio several holiday displays will feature themes such as Rudolph, Gingerbread House, The Reason for the Season, Snow Globe, and even a photo booth. Nolan and Miller say work will begin on the transformation in a few weeks, and encourage people to stop in and watch the progress.