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President Laurie Brown-Bonner opened the Blue Ridge School Board’s workshop on February 27 with a little game. Giving each board member a sheet of paper, she asked them to close their eyes, and admonished them not to ask any questions. She then gave a series of imprecise instructions for folding the paper and tearing off corners. When she finally asked them to open their eyes and their papers, there were several patterns of variously holed papers on display, which she said represented the “need for two-way communication.”

A couple of weeks before, some of the Board members gathered for a retreat facilitated by a PhD student Ms. Brown-Bonner knew from her day job and who was paid about $400 for the service. Each participant was presented with a brush supposedly symbolizing the need to brush off the past. Board members who did not attend the retreat got their brushes at the workshop. Ms. Brown-Bonner said that the Board needed to put the past behind them, to brush off any lingering animosities, and to move forward.

Over the past several months there has been a lot of talk about companies vying to supply natural gas from local supplies to area homes and businesses. No one knows how this will play out, or when, but some in Great Bend Borough are anxiously looking forward to it - and wondering how to pay for it. At the March meeting of the Great Bend Borough Council on the 1st, Borough Secretary Sheila Guinan read a pair of letters soliciting the Borough’s support in an effort to give affected municipalities more say in the process.

An outfit called UGI Penn Natural Gas, Inc., and another called Leatherstocking Gas Company LLC are each petitioning the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission (PUC) for the exclusive right to provide natural gas to some 13 municipalities in Susquehanna County. They would probably tap into gathering pipelines already in prospect in the area. Borough solicitor Frank O’Connor said that he had even seen crews around town measuring for the piping that would be required.

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