NEWS

“The Journey Matters” grief support class will be held Saturday, April 1^st from 10-11:00am at the Thomas Fickinger Funeral Home, 210 N. East St., Coudersport.  We are so excited to provide our community with the opportunity to support one another through the stages of grief.  To reserve your seat please call Lisa Brennan @ 570-712-7418 or the Fickinger Funeral Home @ 814-274-8888 to reserve your seat for this free event.

We have fishing supplies.

We have live bait.. minnows, night crawlers, baby crawlers, meal worms.

We also sell fishing licenses..

Stop by and check out everything we have to offer.

SALE! SALE!! SALE!!! March 31st and April 1st. 50% off all FURNITURE!!

10am to 5pm Friday and Saturday.

19 South Main Street Coudersport PA.

At 9:39 PM on Thursday, Ridgway Fire Dept. dispatched previous fire on Monterey Avenue for a rekindle.

At 8:35 PM on Thursday, Ridgway Fire Dept. has been dispatched to 109 Taylor Avenue for a smell of natural gas in the kitchen of the home. Firefighters are deploying an exhaust fan & notifying National Fuel to send a crew to the location.

When Heaman Dhimal and Alisha Khadka were children in Nepal, there was one cure for all their childhood illnesses – honey.

Now, as biology students at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, they want to find out whether their elders were right about the putka honey of their childhoods having special medicinal properties.

 They’re not alone. Several other researchers have recently looked into the cultural use of the honey as medicine and how its sales affect the livelihood of Himalayan communities. Now 7,500 miles from where they grew up, Dhimal and Khadka are doing their own research to see why the putka honey is special.

Dhimal and Khadka both came to the United States as children as part of a refugee resettlement program. They both attended high school and met each other in Harrisburg, which has become a hub for the Bhutanese refugee community.

Dhimal’s family is part of a large ethnic minority called Lhotshampas who settled in southern Bhutan in the late 19^th century to clear forest, create rice fields and work them. They had come from Nepal and spoke Nepalese. In 1958, Bhutan passed a citizenship act that gave them full citizenship. More policies encouraged intermarriage and moving to other parts of the country.

But in 1985, a new citizenship act stiffened the requirements to become a naturalized citizen and created conditions under which citizenship could be revoked, including being disloyal to the king, country or people of Bhutan.

Soon Bhutan began requiring that Lhotshampas prove that they had paid taxes and wear the traditional dress of the majority. Schools stopped teaching in Nepalese.

Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) announced the promotions of three Members to the rank of Major, four to the rank of Captain, and eight to the rank of Lieutenant. All were recognized at promotion ceremonies on March 30.

Elk County- Doug Gaffey, St. Marys Area United Way President presented a $4,500 grant award to the Leslie Swope, St. Marys Public Library Librarian. The library applied for the funding to support the operational needs of the library.

The St. Marys Library offers several programs for the community. The library offers weekly story time for young children, weekly programs for adults with disabilities, a summer reading program, Books on Foot, book clubs, monthly drawing and watercolor classes, and special programs for school aged children and adults. The library continues to provide quality materials to their patrons in formats they request. Books, audiobooks, DVDs, eBooks, eaudiobooks, periodicals and games are available for patrons. The library also offers meeting space for individuals in the St. Marys area.

The St. Marys Library is one of the many partnering organizations that have sought grant money from the St. Marys Area United Way. Over the next couple of weeks, the United Way will continue to notify the public of all the grant recipients and award amounts. The grant funding disseminated in 2023 is as a result of the donations raised during the St. Marys Area United Way 2022 campaign. Funding raised in 2023 will be available for organizations to seek grant funding in 2024.

The St. Marys Area United Way relies on the contributions from companies and local individuals. If you would like to become one of these individuals or corporate donors, please call 781-6000 or mail your check to the St. Marys Area United Way, 44 So. St. Marys Street, St. Marys, PA 15857

At 1:19 PM on Thursday, Coudersport Ambulance has been called to Carley Lane for a woman ill.

Montoursville, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) is reminding candidates for political office that no campaign signs can be placed within the PennDOT right-of-way along state road, interstate, expressway, and other limited access highways.  Political signs cannot be attached on light or signal posts, guide rail or other PennDOT traffic control devices.

It is illegal to install, erect or place any sign of any nature, including a temporary sign, on PennDOT right-of-way. Illegal signs can be removed at any time by PennDOT.

When PennDOT workers must remove campaign signs, it takes them away from working on important highway maintenance and safety projects.

Campaign signs placed along roadways may pose the following risks:

0. Reduced sight distance at intersections;
1. Possible harm to animals (wire posts could cut animals, and the plastic signs could be mistakenly eaten by animals);
2. Plastic signs that blow off their posts could clog drains; and
3. Wire posts left behind may cause safety hazards to PennDOT employees when they mow roadside vegetation

Signs posted in the right-of-way will be removed and stored at the PennDOT county maintenance office for 30 days prior to disposal.

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.