Business Directory Now Online!!!

Look Here For Future Specials

Do you already
subscribe to the
paper version of
the Transcript?
You can get the online free! Call Lauren at 853-3134 for info.

Subscribers!  Login Here

Welcome!
We hope you'll enjoy having your hometown newspaper available to you online, 24-hours a day. If you are a subscriber, click through the sections to the left for the latest local news and information, and make sure you check out our new business directory.
For those non subscribers, you have free access to our classified, obits and business directory pages. Make sure you tell our directory advertisers where you saw their ad!

HEADLINES:

Blue Ridge Awards Contracts
By Ted Brewster

With summer projects moving forward, the Blue Ridge School District expects to begin classes in August with fewer than 1,000 students for the first time. Total enrollment has declined from just over 1,100 in the school year just concluded. Elementary School Principal Matthew Button said that enrollment in kindergarten for 4-year-olds will probably top 60, and that new families arrive occasionally, mostly renting, presumably related to the natural gas development. School Board member Laurie Brown-Bonner even mentioned that some Pennsylvania school districts are investigating 4-day weeks.

So far, however, Blue Ridge remains on its plotted course, and at its meeting on July 25, the School Board approved some contracts to keep the momentum going. Boland Excavating of Conklin, NY was awarded a contract worth $145,000 for paving and drainage work behind the Elementary School. This should be the last of the major summer projects, which Business Manager Loren Small said would all be completed by the opening of school late next month.

Read the full story

Elk Lake To Join Montrose Football
By Melinda Darrow

The Elk Lake and SCCTC board meetings on July 28 were fairly short. With many of the administrators absent due to other commitments, their reports were few but there were several other items of business dealt with.

The Susquehanna County Farm Bureau wrote to the board, discussing policy meetings held around the area, with the policies then being voted on in the fall at the SSFB fall dinner meeting. They were also in the process of reviewing the local policies book. Policies pertaining to the school district had been sent to the district with the letter. Dr. Bush assured that organization that they were interested in the further discussion, and potential grant opportunities.

Read the full story

This site is on a subscription only basis. The Obit and Classified pages have open access. You will need to be a paid subscriber to have complete access to the entire Susquehanna County Transcript website.

Thank you for visiting!