The proposed budget for Ulysses Township is now available for public inspection during regular business hours at the Township Building.
A public budget meeting will be held on December 17th at 7:pm at the Township Building. All residents are welcome to attend.
A LIGHT FOR ALL NATIONS!
Left to Right: Steve Limeburner, John Sherer, Darlene Leedham, Mary Lou Embury, Ron Hallett, Carol Smith, Alice Buchanan, Josiah Post, Julie Grossman, Steve Sevinsky, Bonnie Wright, Lisa Post, Gretchen Songster, Carol Empson, Shirley Ogden, Megan Ambrose, Betty Wallace, Paula Cochran, Kathleen Wilson, Terri Meachan, Joy Bach, Chris Pepper, Jody Landes, Marilyn Jestes, Don Caskey, Stephen Daly, Barbara Busch, David Hauber, and Warren Cederholm. Absent: Donell Ayers, Marcia Austin, Jerry Bailey, Hannah Howe, Miriam Howe, Dale Post, Cindy Smith, and Tim Wright.
North Country Voices will present a Christmas Choral Concert, A Light for All Nations! on Sunday December 7 at 3:00 pm at the Coudersport Alliance Church on Route 49 and on Sunday December 14 at 3:00 pm at the Pine Creek Valley Global Methodist Church in Galeton.
The Community Education Center’s Leadership Elk and Cameron program’s (LEC) monthly session focused on communications. The day was spent at the Elk County 911 Center in Ridgway. Participants practiced public speaking and interpersonal communication skills. The class heard from author, artist, educator and advocate John Schlimm. He shared several examples of creative communications and advocacy. He talked about his experience with Gen-Z and projects he has been involved with such as Dutch Manufacturing & Cameron/Elk Suicide Prevention Task Force. St. Marys Insurance Agency sponsored lunch which was catered by Joeys Bakery.
Elk County – The Stackpole-Hall Foundation Trustees, family, and staff are pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. William J. Olson as a new Term Trustee for the Foundation.
Mr. Olson began his engineering career with roles at Quality Components, before joining Keystone Powdered Metal Company, where he would spend the next 15 years. Following his successful tenure in the manufacturing and engineering sectors, he chose to transition into work that more directly supports community and environmental priorities.
You could call it the social event of the season, a mass wellness retreat, grand-scale volunteer work or collective reaping that puts food on the tables of participants and non-participants alike.
Or you could just call it deer season.
You’d be right on all counts. Pennsylvania’s statewide firearms deer season – which runs from Nov. 29 through Dec. 13 and includes two Sundays, Nov. 30 and Dec. 7 – will send more than half a million orange-clad hunters out to share time with family and friends, connect with nature, perform boots-on-the-ground wildlife management and secure healthy venison. No other single day on the state’s hunting calendar is as anticipated or busy.
Other than that, it’s no big deal.
All of November through the week before Christmas, the Potter County Farmers Market will move indoors to the Riley Gallery, next to the Crittenden, on SATURDAY from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm. The next market will be this Saturday, November 23rd. Here is a list of who plans to be there and what they plan on bringing to the Market:
[NOTICES:
* The market moves indoor from November 2025 through the end of April 2026, each SATURDAY through the end of December 2025, then the first SATURDAY of each month beginning in January 2026.
* There will be no market on November 29th due to the Small Town Christmas celebration in Coudersport. Many of our vendors will be throughout the town.
* Market times have been established after many trial times over the years. If you are not able to visit us and would like something particular from one of the vendors, please contact them directly. They are willing to try to accommodate your request.
* If you are interested in joining the market this year or have any questions please contact …. Netra Baker, 814-598-0649 netrabaker2@gmail.com]
THORNY BUSH FARM will be at the Saturday market with fabulous goat milk fudge, herbal honey, designer soap, and various crafts. Cash check and Venmo accepted.
REUNING AND BRADLEY ORCHARDS will be attending with apple cider
Available Position: Full-time IT Support Technician in the Port Allegany School District
Overview:
Seneca Highlands IU9 is seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic IT Support Technician to join our team
supporting Port Allegany School District. This position offers an excellent opportunity to start a
rewarding career in technology within an educational environment.
Job Title: IT Support Technician
Location: Port Allegany, PA
Type: Full-time
New clearances upon hire and Pre-employment drug testing will be required for successful employment.
Key Responsibilities:
Provide first-level technical support for devices, networks, apps, and classroom technology.
Troubleshoot and resolve hardware, software, and network issues.
Assist in maintaining and updating IT documentation and inventory.
Ensure excellent customer service by being courteous, polite, and service-oriented.
Collaborate with other team members to enhance overall IT support.
Qualifications:
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
A positive attitude and a willingness to learn.
Basic troubleshooting skills for devices, networks, and classroom technology, or the ability to learn these skills quickly.
Any questions regarding this position, please email Mr. Ed Bell at: ebell@iu9.org EOE
Available Position: Full-time IT Support Technician in the Port Allegany School District
Overview:
Seneca Highlands IU9 is seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic IT Support Technician to join our team supporting Port Allegany School District. This position offers an excellent opportunity to start a rewarding career in technology within an educational environment.
Job Title: IT Support Technician
Location: Port Allegany, PA
Type: Full-time
New clearances upon hire and Pre-employment drug testing will be required for successful employment.
Key Responsibilities:
Provide first-level technical support for devices, networks, apps, and classroom technology.
Troubleshoot and resolve hardware, software, and network issues.
Assist in maintaining and updating IT documentation and inventory.
Ensure excellent customer service by being courteous, polite, and service-oriented.
Collaborate with other team members to enhance overall IT support.
Qualifications:
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
A positive attitude and a willingness to learn.
Basic troubleshooting skills for devices, networks, and classroom technology, or the ability to learn these skills quickly.
Any questions regarding this position, please email Mr. Ed Bell at: ebell@iu9.org EOE
[State College, PA] This Monday, November 17th, Samuel Friday, a 67-year-old resident of Tyrone, was arrested and remains in custody on denied bail. After receiving a report that Mr. Friday was soliciting underage teenagers for sexual conduct, Trooper Jonathan Hodges and a team from the Pennsylvania State Police quickly obtained a search warrant for Mr. Friday’s Tyrone residence, located in Centre County, and found photographs, video tapes, and electronic storage drives containing sexually explicit material.
Montoursville, PA – Motorists are advised that the Columbia County Rest Areas on Interstate 80 eastbound and westbound, located at mile marker 246, are opened to traffic.
The rest areas were closed on Thursday, February 20, 2025, to accommodate renovation and construction efforts. Work on the project included updating utilities and bathroom fixtures, installation of a new generator, and the construction of a new sewage treatment plant and buildings. Work on the project was completed under four contracts totaling $6.7 million.
Montoursville, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) is advising motorists in Sullivan County that the entire length of Ellis Road (Route 4006) in Fox and Elkland townships will be posted with a permanent, year-round, 10-ton weight restriction.
The posting is being made based on a traffic-and-engineering study indicating that this highway may be damaged by vehicles that exceed the restriction. School buses, emergency vehicles, and local-delivery trucks are exempted from the postings.
The restriction will be in effect once the required signs are erected by a PennDOT maintenance crew in the upcoming weeks.
We’re pleased to announce that our Citizens of Tomorrow program in which students from Coudersport High School join us for lunch and tell us about themselves and their future plans has resumed.
At our November 17, 2025, meeting, our first group of students joined us at a special luncheon coordinated by Rotarian Julie Jeffers at Sweden Valley Manor. Past Rotary President, Walter Baker, resides at the Manor and was happily able to join us.
Students Alex Duell, Aidan Sandersen and Landin Pekarski, joined us for a pizza and wings lunch and told us about their current activities and future plans.
We look forward to meeting more Citizens of Tomorrow at our future meetings!
(Pictured: Citizens of Tomorrow [not in order] Alex Duell, Aidan Sandersen and Landin Pekarski)
Montoursville, PA – Motorists are advised that Route 61 is closed in both directions between Eighth Street and Coal Street in the city of Shamokin, Northumberland County, due to a vehicle crash with downed utilities.
A detour using local roads is in place. The roadway is expected to be closed for several hours. Motorists are urged to drive with caution in the area.
The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) is giving an inside look at how it keeps one of its most unique fisheries going strong year after year. Today, volunteers helped to collect hundreds of steelhead (a large form of Rainbow Trout) from the PFBC’s Trout Run nursery water along Lake Erie in Fairview Township. The stream is protected from fishing, but it’s filled with huge steelhead trying to get upstream to spawn. Once netted, male and female fish are separated and sedated so that eggs and milt can be collected. The adult fish are unharmed in the process and are returned to Lake Erie, while the eggs will be taken to the nearby Fairview State Fish Hatchery, where they will hatch. After about a year, the small steelhead, known as smolts, are then stocked into the many tributary streams along Lake Erie, where they will imprint on the water as if they were born there naturally. They will then swim out to Lake Erie to grow into adults, and after about 2 to 3 years, the large steelhead will follow their natural instinct to return to their home stream to spawn, which is what creates the world-class steelhead run each fall and winter. The PFBC aims to produce about one million steelhead annually to sustain the fishery and ensure good numbers of fish return to the tributaries each year. It is estimated that steelhead fishing generates about $11 million dollars in economic impact annually for Erie County.
More information on Pennsylvania’s steelhead program is available on the PFBC website.
Change is a constant in everyone’s life. Although we might not like the change we’re currently experiencing, it is still with us. Some change happens because of our own actions or those of others. Sadly, we can find ourselves victims of others’ choices and behaviors. Whether it involves our own actions, the choices and behaviors of others, or even our pets, our lives are always shifting to adapt to what is happening around us. Because of this, I wonder if we all might be better off with anchor points in our lives.
Anchor points are things that keep us centered. You’ll find them in many areas of life. If you’re building any kind of structure, you’ll have anchor points. These points keep the building square and also provide structural stability and strength. Without them, a strong gust of wind can cause the structure to crumble. Perhaps you’ve read about buildings and bridges collapsing because their foundational anchor points were not secure. Often, it’s because they were not anchored into the bedrock. When change causes our lives to crash or our emotions to crumble, it’s because our anchor points are not solidly attached to bedrock.
