Montoursville, PA – Motorists are advised a reclamation project is set to begin next week on Route 3003 (Phoenix Run Road) in Gaines Township, Tioga County.
On Monday, April 24, 2023, and Tuesday, April 25, 2023, Phoenix Run Road will be closed between Route 6 to the Potter County line, while a Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) maintenance crew performs work on the roadway. Work will be performed between the hours of 6:30 AM and 5:00 PM.
A detour using Route 6 (in Potter County), Meeker Road and Phoenix Run Road will be in place while work is being performed.
Motorists should be alert, slow down, expect travel delays, and drive with caution.
Motorists can check conditions on major roadways by visiting www.511PA.com. 511PA, which is free and available 24 hours a day, provides traffic delay warnings, weather forecasts, traffic speed information and access to more than 1,000 traffic cameras.
Some go to the woods to wrap themselves in tranquility, surrounded by relative quiet if not outright silence. Spring turkey hunters aren’t necessarily among them.
Matching wits with a gobbler is often most exciting when things are downright rowdy.
That’s why there’s much excitement attached to this coming season, which begins on Saturday, April 22 with a half-day hunt for junior and youth mentored hunters, then runs from Saturday, April 29 to Tuesday, May 30 for everyone. It has the potential to be noisier than usual, given the abundance of 2-year-old birds – the most vocal and likely to engage in back-and-forth chatter with hunters.
$20 million in Technical Assistance Funding is Available to Plan High-Speed Internet Projects in Rural Communities
WASHINGTON, April 17, 2023 – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced the availability of $20 million to deliver broadband technical assistance resources for rural communities, and to support the development and expansion of broadband cooperatives.
USDA is offering the funding under the new Broadband Technical Assistance Program. The program supports technical assistance projects such as conducting feasibility studies, completing network designs and developing broadband financial assistance applications. Funding is also available to help organizations access federal resources, and to conduct data collection and reporting.
“USDA is committed to making sure that people, no matter where they live, have access to high-speed internet. That’s how you grow the economy – not just in rural communities, but across the nation,” said USDA Under Secretary for Rural Development Xochitl Torres Small. “USDA is partnering with small towns, local utilities and cooperatives, and private companies to increase access to this critical service which in turn boosts opportunity and helps build bright futures.”
Johnsonburg, Pa.: Want to share stories about your bird dog and your fall hunts? Prepare a meal of something you harvested from the wild and join fellow hunters and conservationists for a Wild Game Potluck on Saturday, 4/22, starting at 5:00 p.m. If you plan on attending, please register with Tommy Launer at tslauner@gmail.com. You must register to attend so we have enough silverware and drinks for all attendees.
The Upland Bird Hunt (UBH) Chapter of the Ruffed Grouse Society (RGS) is offering a Wild Game Pot Luck at the Rolfe Beagle Club on Saturday, 4/22, at 1016 Long Level Road, Johnsonburg, Pa., 15845. Entry to the Wild Game Pot Luck is FREE with a wild game dish to share with others. If you do not have wild game to prepare and share, then please bring a vegetable dish, or a meat/cheese sampler. Come talk dogs, tell lies about our dogs, listen to other upland conservationists, and enjoy your favorite beverage around the fire pit.
“Based on last year’s success with the Birds ‘N’ Brews in Bradford, we wanted to try this wild game idea,” said Tommy Launer. “We invite you to join us for the evening. We will have some RGS and AWS (American Woodcock Society) items and memberships for attendees. We are looking for a laid-back evening of just enjoying our dogs and, hopefully, some of the food our dogs have helped us harvest. This evening is all about sharing our love for the upland life,” finished Launer.
Stay tuned to the Upland Bird Hunt Chapter by checking out the Facebook Group, RGS UBH St Marys PA Chapter, or get on the Ruffed Grouse Society email list for North Central PA by contacting wlhab9@gmail.com with your email. You will then be notified of all upcoming events the RGS has to offer in NC PA.
The National Weather Service in Buffalo has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for… Northwestern Cattaraugus County in western New York… Central Erie County in western New York… Northeastern Chautauqua County in western New York… * Until 830 PM EDT. * At 739 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Silver Creek, or 12 miles east of Dunkirk, moving northeast at 50 mph. HAZARD…60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. SOURCE…Radar indicated. IMPACT…Minor damage to vehicles is possible. Expect wind damage to trees and power lines. * Locations impacted include… Buffalo, Cheektowaga, West Seneca, North Tonawanda, Lackawanna, Kenmore, Depew, Tonawanda, Amherst and Dunkirk. This includes Interstate 90 between exits 49 and 58. HAIL THREAT…RADAR INDICATED MAX HAIL SIZE…1.00 IN WIND THREAT…RADAR INDICATED MAX WIND GUST…60 MPH
BRADFORD, Pa. — The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford honored Joelle Warner, director of donor relations and stewardship, during its Honors Convocation on Friday with the President’s Award for Excellence in Overall Performance from Richard T. Esch, Pitt-Bradford president.
“I am very happy to present this award to Joelle, who approaches her work with an exceptionally high level of professionalism,” said Richard T. Esch, Pitt-Bradford’s president. “She also cares deeply about our students, our faculty and staff, and our generous supporters.”
The President’s Award was created in 2016 to recognize a staff member who has demonstrated exemplary performance and outstanding individual contributions to the Pitt-Bradford campus.
Warner’s coworker, Christine Tyler, director of development and major gifts, nominated her for the award.
Tyler noted that Warner’s consistent professionalism, organization and diligence were of immense benefit to the university as she planned the dedication of the George B. Duke Engineering and Information Technologies Building and an annual luncheon for scholarship donors to meet their recipients.
During that time, Warner also arranged for donors to tour the new building and arranged for signage, including a new digital display, while also gathering thank you letters from donor recipients, tending to the needs of other donors and making each donor she works with feels valued.
“Joelle has made a tremendous impact on Pitt-Bradford’s ability to raise philanthropic funds and to acquire, cultivate and steward donors,” Tyler wrote. “She has assisted countless donors to establish scholarships at Pitt-Bradford [and] worked with corporate donors on in-kind donations. … The standard of excellence that our donors have come to expect from Pitt-Bradford’s advancement program can, in large part, be traced directly back to Joelle’s efforts.”
Tyler told a story to illustrate Warner’s individualized touch. “Last year one of our older donors, recently widowed, was not able to attend [an event] due to mobility issues. Joelle arranged to drive to the donor’s home a few days after the event to deliver a gift in person and spend some time visiting. Not because that falls under ‘other duties as assigned,’ but because that’s who Joelle is as a person.”
Warner and her husband, Kyle, live in Kane and enjoy traveling with their dog, Becca, snowmobiling and vintage motorcycle racing, and spending time outdoors and with their families.
Previous recipients of the award include Christina Marrone, registrar and director of enrollment services; Kim Masone, former conference services manager; and Richard Kahle, facilities director of the Richard E. and Ruth McDowell Sport and Fitness Center.
The Bradford Area Ministerium will be hosting an event on Veteran’s Square on May 4th from 12-1pm for the National Day of Prayer. Attached is a flyer for the event.
This national event is an opportunity for communities all across America to join together to pray for our nation by praying for seven centers of influence: Government, Military, Media, Business, Education, Church and Family.
We invite you to attend representing your agencies and areas of leadership influence so that the community churches can pray together for you and your leadership. We are looking forward to this time of unified prayer as a community!
Due to our transition to a new Integrated-Library System (ILS), patrons who use the Libby App with Seneca Library District must sign out and then sign back in. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Please follow these instructional videos on how to sign out and then sign back into Libby. Your PIN is the last four digits of your phone number. Sign Out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkZY7oceGRQ Sign Back in with PIN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vlZ3q5kxx4
The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners gave final approval to the 2023-24 hunting and trapping seasons and bag limits.
Modifications adopted for the 2023-24 seasons include:
· For black bear, Wildlife Management Units (WMUs) 1B, 2C, 4A, 4B and 4D were removed from the extended firearms black bear season because of declining nuisance complaints in these units.
· For elk, the archery season will be a week later than in 2022-23 to provide additional time between the license drawing and the beginning of the season.
· For furbearers, WMUs 3B and 4E have been opened to river otter trapping because habitat and population data indicate these units can support sustainable otter harvest.
· For small game, there has been a significant expansion of opportunity for put-and-take hunting of captive-reared bobwhite quail in most of Pennsylvania, achieved through an earlier season opening date, later season closing date and removal of the daily bag limit. Also, adjustments to crow season dates and addition of Thursdays as hunting days were approved to shift hunting opportunity from the peak breeding season to the fall and winter months.
· For falconry, an expansion of falconry opportunities, to include the period of overlap with the regular firearms deer season and the authorization of falconers to take certain furbearers were approved.
· No substantive changes were made to white-tailed deer or wild turkey seasons, although the 2024 youth and regular spring turkey seasons will open five days later than in 2023 due to normal calendar fluctuation and the wild turkey management plan guideline of opening the regular season the Saturday closest to May 1. The seasons and bag limits adopted by the board would continue with a Saturday opener to the firearms deer season. License data demonstrates a positive change following the implementation of the Saturday opener. In particular, data shows the move to a Saturday opener was followed by increased license sales by hunters ages 18 to 34 and female hunters. The board also approved a measure that makes all mentored hunters, including mentored adults, eligible to participate in the October special firearms season for antlerless deer and bears.
The Game Commission also announced 1,095,000 antlerless deer licenses will be allocated statewide for 2023-24, which is up from the 948,000 licenses allocated for 2022-23.
Photo by John Eaton. Chava (Megan Gallant), a female astrophysicist and the bartender (Louie Preston) toast her birthday with vodka because there is no water.
Earth Day weekend at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, April 21 and 22 and at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 23 in the Warehouse Theatre at 3 Central Avenue in Wellsboro, the Women’s Project is presenting “The Moons of Jupiter” by Jessica Litwak, a leader in the field of creative activism and socially engaged theater.
The play takes place in the future. The global water shortage has sucked the earth dry. Water is only available through black market traffickers at impossible prices. The only thing left is vodka.
A female astrophysicist, celebrating her birthday in a bar, tries to buy a glass of water. She has been working on an instrument that retrieves water from space.
Climate change can be a tough subject to address, but it’s never been as entertaining as it is in “The Moons of Jupiter,” as the Greek gods try to sort it all out.
Zeus has a plan to abandon earth entirely, but his three daughters, Aphrodite, Athena and Artemis make a pact to help the female astrophysicist save it.
Athena provides four scientists (Galileo, Newton, Darwin and Einstein) to help. Artemis and Aphrodite try other techniques, but nothing works.
Mythology, sci-fi and rap songs are woven throughout the play. “There is zany humor and dark intensity, too, as the history of science, the future of planetary travel, and the courage and necessity of looking toward the unknown for solutions are explored in this play,” said Director Lilace Guignard.
Tickets for “The Moons of Jupiter” are $16 for adults and $8 for youth 18 and under.
To buy tickets for the show on April 21, 22 or 23, go to hgp.booktix.org.
For more information, call 570-724-2079 or email hamgib@gmail.com.
Matthew Ball – The Boogie Woogie Kid is performing on Saturday, April 22.
Saturday, April 22 at 7:30 p.m. Matthew Ball -The Boogie Woogie Kid, a pianist, singer and songwriter, will perform in the Deane Center’s Coolidge Theatre at 104 Main Street in Wellsboro.
This is the fifth in the Wellsboro Community Concert Association’s six-concert series.
“I was unhappily practicing law,” said Ball. “A short time later, I attended a hometown Boogie Woogie festival in Michigan. It inspired me to pursue my passion. Now I am known as the attorney turned musician who became a performing artist and YouTube sensation.”
Join Ball, the piano and song man with 5 million YouTube views, for a family concert of New Orleans song, Boogie-woogie piano, and Swing Era favorites from the Great American Songbook. He has been called “the fastest fingers in the Mid-west.”
He presents an upbeat program of arrangements of classic American songs like “It Had to be You”, “In the Mood”, “When the Saints Go Marchin’ In”, “That’s The Glory of Love”, “Basin Street Blues”, “Bumble Boogie”, “Just a Closer Walk with Thee”, “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out”, “What a Wonderful World”, and more.
His performances are described as “Awesome!” “Crushing!” “Fantastic!”
In 2020 he became a CAFE grant award winner in recognition of his “family-friendly” music contributions to the community.
Don’t miss this toe-tappin’ evening of music fun. For a preview visit Matthew on Facebook or online as “The Boogie Woogie Kid.”
Adults with a season pass can attend with children 12 and under admitted free.
The ticket price for the Matthew Ball aka The Boogie Woogie Kid concert on April 22 is $20 per adult with children 12 and under admitted free. A student who is 13 to 18 will be admitted for $5 per concert.
Last in the series is The Revelers concert on Friday, May 19.
Information about and tickets for individual concerts are available by visiting www.wellsborocca.org or by calling the Deane Center at 570-724-6220.
Photo by John Eaton Charlie Messina (left) and Jim Tutak (right) present three checks that total $891.24 to Wellsboro Area Food Pantry President Bill Yacovissi (center) who devotes his time and expertise to the Pantry’s operation. One check was for $341.24, the net proceeds of this year’s Burns Supper, another was for $50 on behalf of Gerard P. Doran, the piper (not shown) and the third was a personal donation of $500 made by Messina.
In 2011 Charlie Messina, Pat Davis, Larry Biddison, Jerry Tutak and Jim Tutak began what has become an annual tradition in Wellsboro: The Robbie Burns Supper and Poetry Slam.
The Tutak brothers had participated in several Burns Suppers in New Jersey. When Jim migrated to Wellsboro he saw the need for a major Hibernian cultural and social event, especially in the dreary month of January. The five organizers held their first Burns Supper that year with copious amounts of haggis and single-malt whiskey, not as an antidote to the haggis as some would say, but to facilitate fellowship. It was agreed that the proceeds over and above costs would be contributed to the Wellsboro Area Food Pantry.
Since then the event has been held annually on the Sunday in January nearest to the January 25 birthday of Robbie Burns, Scotland’s celebrated poet. Along with the haggis and whiskey there was a piper, Scottish music, the “Address to the Haggis” and recitations of poetry, old and new. With the exception of a suspension in 2021 and 2022 due to Covid, the event had continued to grow and is now indisputably the foremost celebration of Scottish culture in Tioga County.
For the first time since the pandemic had begun, the supper was held on January 23 of this year at Timeless Destination, a Wellsboro restaurant. The piper who generously provided his talents in exchange for a $50 donation to the Wellsboro Area Food Pantry was Gerard P. Doran of Wellsboro, who is available for weddings, funerals and bar mitzvahs. The expertly prepared haggis is from Stewart’s Scottish Butchers in Kearny, New Jersey and side dishes by Timeless Destination staff. Kathy Tutak, Jim’s wife, prepared an authentic Tipsy Laird dessert, an epic feat in itself.
A splendid time was had by all and the Wellsboro Area Food Pantry received $341.24, the net proceeds of this year’s Burns Supper plus the $50 bagpiper Gerard P. Doran was to be paid for piping in the haggis but instead requested that it be donated bringing the total to $391.24.
Plans are already underway for the next Robbie Burns Supper and Poetry Slam, which will be held on Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024. Save the date. For more information, contact Jim Tutak at legaltak@aol.com.
