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I-86 REOPENED AT 11:00 AM

Disabled tractor trailer on I-86 eastbound (Cuba) to Town of Friendship; Town of Cuba Line (Cuba) All lanes closed Disabled Tractor Trailer. Use Caution Near Emergency Vehicles.

Hamilton-Gibson Productions announces the cast for their big summer musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. This all-singing first musical by theater greats Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice will be presented at Straughn Auditorium on July 5 at 7:30, July 6 at 2:30 and 7:30; July 7 at 2:30 on the Commonwealth University of Mansfield campus.

On September 18. 2023 the Pennsylvania Senate Transportation Committee held a hearing on automated traffic enforcement. When you hear the elected officials endorsing cameras, rather than gathering comments, it says a lot. Only a few pro-camera people were allowed to speak, and submitting written comments was not intuitive.

As expected, the testimony said how great ticket cameras are. Why not, the cameras can bring in a lot of money for various people and entities. Ticket volume must be kept high in order to keep the cameras operating and fund everything. The problem is that you need to dig deeper. If you pull up the written testimony from Jay Beeber and the 3 others grouped with him, you start to get a clearer picture. Beeber went in-depth addressing speed cameras and stop-arm cameras. He did not get into red-light cameras in-depth, but the same concepts may apply. He took on all the programs and refuted everything the pro-camera speakers said. He had reams of data too, and his testimony was 19 pages long. Nobody else had this level of preparation, since the facts were on Beeber’s side.

Pennsylvania has seen various cases of higher crashes near ticket cameras, tickets issued in error, an FBI investigation, whistleblowers, etc.

With best-practice engineering and enforcement, tickets would be rare, and crashes would also be rare. That would not pay for the cameras, grant programs, etc., though. Making average drivers into scofflaws is bad. Engineers how to properly setup the roads, time to start now.

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) announced the following schedule of maintenance activities in Potter County the week of April 29. PennDOT performs year-round maintenance in its mission to provide a safe, efficient transportation system, and the scope of work in Potter County for the coming week is as follows:

Manual Patching

• Route 4012 (Oswayo Street) from the intersection of Route 44 and Assembly Park in Shinglehouse Borough. Monday, April 29. Flaggers in the roadway will provide traffic control during daylight hours.
• Route 4017 (Oswayo Street/Sunny Side Road/Shay Town Road) from Academy Street in Shinglehouse Borough and the McKean/Potter county line in Sharon Township. Monday, April 29, through Thursday, May 2. Flaggers in the roadway will provide traffic control during daylight hours.
• Route 4019 (Horse Run Road) from the intersection of Ceres Street in Shinglehouse Borough and the New York border. Tuesday, April 30, through Friday, May 3. Flaggers in the roadway will provide traffic control during daylight hours.
• Route 4015 (Bells Run Road) in Sharon Township. Friday, May 3. Flaggers in the roadway will provide traffic control during daylight hours.

Most permanent pothole patching is completed in the spring/summer when temperatures stay consistently above freezing. If maintenance crews were not repairing potholes, the road surface would break up further and require more expensive corrective measures.

SCAM ALERT: Owlett NOT Soliciting Police Donations

WELLSBORO – Rep. Clint Owlett (R-Tioga/Bradford) is warning area residents of a fake robocall claiming it is from him and asking people to donate in support of the police.

“I never recorded this message or authorized this call in any way,” Owlett said. “While I certainly support our law enforcement officers and any legitimate efforts to raise money on their behalf, I implore anyone who receives this call claiming to be from me to immediately hang up and report it to your local police department.”

Owlett learned about the robocall from a constituent who received it and then contacted his office to verify it. The voice claims to be Owlett and sounds just like him, according to the constituent. The caller asks for credit card information to take the donation.

“I am outraged that someone would use my voice to try to take advantage of people’s generosity toward our hard-working law enforcement officers,” Owlett said. “We have reported this incident to our state and local police and county sheriff’s offices.”

If anyone else received the call and gave the caller their credit card information, Owlett urges them to immediately call their credit card company to report the incident.

​Montoursville, PA – Motorists who travel on Interstate 80 eastbound should be on alert for delays due to a crash at mile marker 220, two miles west of the Exit 224 (Route 54 / Danville) in Montour County.

Motorists can expect a lane restriction and stop and go traffic starting at Exit 215 (Route 254 / Limestoneville) in Northumberland County. At 7:00 PM, traffic was backed up four miles from the crash area. Motorists should expect major delays in travel.

(MCKEAN COUNTY, Pennsylvania: April 26, 2024):  District Attorney Stephanie Vettenburg-Shaffer reports that a Kane Man who previously pled guilty to assaulting a minor child has been sentenced to state prison.  During a sentencing hearing before a McKean County Judge, Mark Wilson, of Kane was sentenced to 5 years to 10 years plus 3 years of consecutive supervision.  Wilson was previously deemed to be a sexually violent predator and has to register as a sex offender for his lifetime.  Wilson pled guilty in October to 2 counts of indecent assault and corruption of minors. Additional terms include no contact with the victim or any unsupervised contact with other juveniles, sex offender counseling, and provide a DNA sample.  

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KANE MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO INDECENT ASSAULT AGAINST CHILD UNDER 13 (MCKEAN COUNTY, Pennsylvania: October 27, 2023):  McKean County District Attorney Stephanie Vettenburg-Shaffer confirmed that Mark Wilson, of Kane, pled guilty in McKean County court yesterday to 2 counts of Indecent Assault on a child under age 13 – Felony 3 and 1 count of Corruption of a Minor – Felony 3.  Officer Derrick Snyder of Kane Borough Police investigated the case and filed the charges against Wilson. Wilson pled guilty to touching the juvenile female’s vagina and having her touch his penis between January 1, 2023 and June 10, 2023 at a residence in Kane over a course of conduct. Wilson has a prior conviction. District Attorney Vettenburg-Shaffer said that a prior conviction increases the grading to Felony 3 for these crimes under the statute.  Wilson was ordered to undergo a sexually violent predator assessment as required under the statute.

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(MCKEAN COUNTY, Pennsylvania: April 26, 2024):  District Attorney Stephanie Vettenburg-Shaffer reports that a Bradford Man was sentenced to state prison for Sexual Assault during a sentencing hearing before a McKean County Judge on April 25th.  Justin Schlopy was sentenced to 5 years to 10 years plus 3 years of consecutive supervision.  Schlopy’s crime requires that him to register as a sex offender for his lifetime.  Schlopy pled guilty to Sexual Assault against a teenager girl in Bradford in 2022.  Additional terms include no contact with the victim or any unsupervised contact with other juveniles, sex offender counseling, and provide a DNA sample.   Sgt. Jason Daugherty was the investigating officer.

Sourced via CRIMEWATCH®: https://mckean.crimewatchpa.com/da/136029/post/bradford-man-sentenced-state-prison-sexual-assault