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The evening started off casually enough, with some members of the Board’s new Fundraising Committee gathered around the table in the cafeteria whose floor was being prepared for stripping and waxing. The Blue Ridge School Board’s sole August meeting date on the 13th came complete with committee sessions.

Committee Chair Shane Rumage concentrated first on trying to pick a date for a drawing that will select the winner of a new grill donated by G & W Trucking from among purchasers of raffle tickets to be sold throughout the soccer season. There was also the matter of where to get the tickets, what they should look like, and how they were to be distributed. Once Board President Laurie Brown-Bonner arrived, the discussion veered off into arrangements for next April’s golf tournament, and the kind of prizes that might be offered.

It’s no secret that companies are drilling for natural gas in and around Harford Township, and that more is on the way. The gas they find has to be collected and sent someplace, and that’s done with pipelines. And pipelines are coming to Harford, big time. A large crowd (for Harford) turned out to hear about it.

Four representatives of Bluestone Gathering, a pipeline company wholly owned by DTE Energy of Michigan, attended the Harford Township Supervisors’ meeting on August 14th to lay out their plans for the next few months. While it is difficult to trace relationships among many of these companies, it appears that DTE this year acquired an entity called Susquehanna Gathering from what used to be Laser Northeast, which is now thought to be part of Williams Energy, which in turn is now developing something called the Constitution Pipeline. The Constitution transmission pipeline is also expected to enter Harford, probably from Brooklyn Township on the west, perhaps along or across Houlihan Road, and transit the Jeffers Farm area. There may be connections between Bluestone and Constitution. The Susquehanna County offices of Bluestone and Susquehanna now appear to be co-located near the Gibson exit off I-81 on Oliver Road.

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