NEWS

 Our cat is missing. His name is Junior and he is a yellow tiger cat. He is not yet fixed and is very friendly. He is probably scared. He is probably still in the Gold area. Danielle 814-203-9856.

I, John W. Northeimer, am pleased to announce that I will be running for the position of Magisterial District Judge that was vacated when the Honorable Annette Easton retired. 

District 55-3-01 serves the Coudersport and Austin Boroughs along with the townships of Sylvania, Wharton, Summit, Portage, Keating, Eulalia, Sweden, and Homer. 

Born and raised here in Coudersport, I am familiar with and compassionate about our area and everyone that calls it home or home away from home. 

After graduating from Coudersport Area High School in 2000, I attended the University of Pittsburgh in Bradford, obtaining a BA degree in Administration of Justice (Criminal Justice). While attending college, I did an internship with the Coudersport Borough Police Department. Also, I began what became my career as a correctional officer at the Potter County Jail, where I currently have over 20 years of service. 

In addition to working in our county jail, I was elected as PA constable in 2003. I have worked with most of the district magistrates in our area, as well as others around the state of PA. 

With the knowledge and experience I have obtained, I am qualified to serve as your District Magistrate. If I am elected, I will do so Proudly and Honorably. I want to thank everyone who took the time to speak with me and those who signed my petition.

I will be number four on the republican ballot and two on the democratic. I would appreciate your support at the primary election on May 16, 2023.

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“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.

Photo by Maike Schulz Keith Nelson swallows a sword.

Next Wednesday, March 29 at 7 p.m., Mr. Pennygaff’s One Man Cirkus for children and adults will be on the Coolidge Theatre stage at the Deane Center for the Performing Arts at 104 Main Street in Wellsboro. UPMC is sponsoring this show.

Featured is Keith Nelson, a solo performer who has traveled the world, bringing a unique hybrid of vaudeville, circus and sideshow spectacle to audiences of all ages. Experience a vaudevillian plate-spinning act and mind bending juggling, sword swallowing, acrobatics, fire-eating, bottle and glass tricks and other feats set to live music to create an interactive evening of fun for the entire family. 

Tickets are $10 for adults and children ages three and up. Children, ages two and under, are admitted free. Come one, come all and get your tickets now for the Cirkus by calling the Deane Center at 570-724-6220 or visiting deanecenter.com.

At 7:30 p.m. next Friday, March 31, Terry Barber, an international countertenor, is presenting “A Tribute to the Best of Broadway” in the Coolidge Theatre at the Deane Center for the Performing Arts at 104 Main Street in Wellsboro.

Barber will sing hits from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s most beloved Broadway musicals, from Hamilton and Les Misérables and a special tribute to Freddie Mercury.

 Those who go on the first Saturday Morning Bird Walk on April 1 at Hills Creek State Park may see a ring-necked duck (shown).

Members of the Tiadaghton Audubon Society will lead the Saturday Morning Bird Walks at Hills Creek State Park located on Hills Creek Road in Charleston Township, about seven miles northeast of Wellsboro. The walks are free and open to the public.

All of the nine walks will begin promptly at 8 a.m. on Saturdays, April 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29 and May 6, 13, 20 and 27.

Registration is not required. Everyone is invited to participate, including both children and adults and birders of all levels, first timers to experienced.

BRADFORD, Pa. – The Friends of Hanley Library will sponsor a reading by Civil War scholar Dr. Christopher Mackowski at 7 p.m. March 29 in Harriett B. Wick Chapel at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford.

Mackowski, a 1991 graduate of Pitt-Bradford, will discuss his latest book, “Grant’s Last Battle,” and share excerpts and stories from the book, particularly about how the Union general and former president wrote his memoirs while dying of throat cancer.

Mackowski is a professor in the Jandoli School of Communication at St. Bonaventure University in Allegany, N.Y., where he serves as associate dean for undergraduate programs, and works with the National Park Service at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, which includes the Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Wilderness and Spotsylvania battlefields. He is the historian-in-residence at Stevenson Ridge, a historic property on the Spotsylvania battlefield.

He is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of the Emerging Civil War blog and has authored or co-authored nearly two dozen books and edited a half-dozen essay collections on the Civil War. He is vice president and serves on the board of directors of the Central Virginia Battlefields Trust and serves on the advisory board of the Civil War Roundtable Congress.

Earlier this month, he was selected by the American Battlefield Trust as a recipient of its highly regarded Copie Hill Civil War Fellowship.

The Friends of Hanley Library is a non-profit group that supports education and literary programming for Pitt-Bradford and local communities.

 A reception and book signing will follow Mackowski’s presentation, which is free and open to the public.