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Escaped Prisoner Back In Jail
By P. Jay Amadio

A 21 year-old inmate, who walked off a volunteer work detail in Montrose on August 25, is behind bars again after he was picked up at a private residence in Union Dale.

Trooper Craig Purdum identified the prisoner as Joseph Lee Snedeker whose current address is the Susquehanna County Jail on Ellsworth Drive in Montrose.

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Court Tells Collectors To Collect

The battle between the Blue Ridge School District Board of Education and the district’s six tax collectors continues despite last week’s court order advising the collectors to start collecting the taxes.

However, the order that came from Wyoming County President Judge Brendan Vanston failed to set the compensation the collectors would receive if they return to work. The tax collectors say if the compensation is 60 cents per bill, a figure set by the school board, on February 14, 2005, they will not collect the taxes.

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