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Great Bend-Hallstead Volunteer Ambulance, Inc. held a celebratory open house on Sunday, May 18th 2014 to showcase their new facility, located at the same Carroll Street location in Great Bend Borough. The celebration contained everything from a ribbon cutting ceremony and dedication, instruction on how to conduct CPR, food, tours of the new facility, kids games, face-painting, door prizes, and more.

Before the ribbon cutting ceremony, several speakers took to the front of the building, including President and CEO Anthony J. Conarton, Board of Directors member Eddy Arnold, Pennsylvania State Representative Sandra Major, and Senator Lisa Baker. Captain Jody Ressequie, Great Bend Borough Council Member and also member of the Great Bend-Hallstead Ambulance, Inc., Jerry MacConnell and Great Bend Borough Mayor Jim Reicke spoke a few words as well.

Susquehanna Community School District held its regular board meeting at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, May 21.  Nothing unusual about that; everything seemed the same.  But the board meeting turned out to be anything but. By the time the board finally adjourned at 7:48 p.m. there had been two executive sessions for personnel matters within the regular meeting.  After the second executive session an agenda item quite suddenly required, at Superintendent Bronson Stones’s prompting a roll call vote. With palpable tension a pall hung over the proceedings. When the first school director voiced a resolute, “No,” it signaled this was no routine matter. Each succeeding vote betrayed a strain of gut-wrenching seriousness, with the vote for and against the motion seesawing till the final vote was cast.  The few onlookers present sat up, leaned forward and focused intently as the most unusual scene before them played out.  

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