BY LAURA LEGERE
Times-Shamrock Writer
DIMOCK TWP. – The head of the state’s environmental protection agency made several promises to study and repair negative impacts from natural gas drilling in this Susquehanna County community Monday, including the vow residents with contaminated drinking water most wanted to hear.
The state will push to get a new supply of clean [...]

BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF
Wyoming County Press Examiner
A Tunkhannock landmark business is being sold.
The Prince Hotel, which has been owned by Milton and Lois Van Horn for the past 18 years, is being sold to N.A. Hospitality, a company headed by Eddie Dalsania of Clarks Summit.
The hotel has been at the corner of Bridge and Tioga [...]

BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF
Wyoming County Press Examiner
Tunkhannock Area alumnus Ken Janiszewski is the school district’s new director of information and sports.
The school board voted unanimously to hire Janiszewski at a special meeting on Thursday. The decision came after weeks of discussion among board members, during which they were unable to decide from among numerous candidates.
More [...]

BY ROBERT L. BAKER
Wyoming County Press Examiner
The Kiwanis Wyoming County Fair is marking a quarter century of giving the area great entertainment this week with a few new twists.
It will have a separate barn for hogs, and to remind the public of the addition, pig races are on tap for two or three times a [...]

BY ELIZABETH SKRAPITS
Times-Shamrock Writer
EATON TWP. – Water tankers are filling up again at Bowmans and Tunkhannock creeks in Wyoming County.
Thanks to recent rainfall, the Susquehanna River Basin Commission lifted restrictions on several water sources for natural gas drilling companies, including three from which Encana Oil & Gas USA Inc. has permission to take water.
SRBC spokeswoman [...]

BY ROBERT L. BAKER
Wyoming County Press Examiner
For nearly all of its 25 years as a re-created Wyoming County Fair, Reba Loomis of Meshoppen has been bringing home ribbons for crafts and/or baked goods.
She’s proudest of her bridal cake that she crocheted in 1998 and took ‘Best in Show.’ That same year she also got ‘Best [...]

BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF
Wyoming County Press Examiner
The principal of two elementary schools in the Tunkhannock Area School District waived his preliminary hearing on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol and other offenses.
Joseph P. Moffitt, 44, of Route 92 North, Tunkhannock, was scheduled to have his hearing Thursday before Magisterial District Judge John Hovan.
The [...]

BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF
Wyoming County Press Examiner
A tour operator who arranges vacations to the Holy Land has been accused of cancelling a $6,300 trip paid for by two Wyoming County women and not refunding their money.
Charges of theft by deception and deceptive business practices were filed against Manfred W. Reinhard, 71, of Jackson, Tenn.
Reinhard is [...]

BY DAVID SINGLETON
Times-Shamrock Writer
PITTSTON TWP. – A corporate jet carrying Procter & Gamble Co. president and CEO Bob McDonald and other officials bound for the company’s Wyoming County plant landed safely Friday at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport after a sensor indicated a problem with the landing gear.
Nearly two dozen emergency vehicles assembled at the airport [...]

BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF
Wyoming County Press Examiner
New plantings outside the Wyoming County Emergency Operations Center are designed to control pollution from runoff and protect area waterways.
The new rain garden is a stormwater demonstration project by the Wyoming County Conservation District. It was installed on Thursday outside the building along Route 6 east of Tunkhannock.
Laura Anderson, [...]