More than ten townships in Susquehanna County now have water wells contaminated by the gas companies here (verified by the DEP).

As time goes by, more water wells are showing contamination.  Please check your water regularly and note any color changes, odors, bubbles, alka seltzer appearance, fizzing, reactions of skin rashes, stomach ailments and then call our DEP Reps in Scranton, at 570-346-5530. 

We have families suffering with water contamination and needing and getting water replacement in Lenox, Dimock, Springville, Franklin Forks, Rush, Auburn, Lawton, Bridgewater, Silver Lake, Liberty, Franklin, etc., since 2008 to the present.

You can also contact me: Citizens for Clean Water, Vera Scroggins at 607-237-9685 and veraduerga@gmail.com and I can refer you to University Studies/Research on water quality and government studies being conducted now and in the past.

New York has decided to prohibit gas drilling/fracking in their State.  They cited hundreds of scientific studies showing the harmful impacts of fracking.

Water can change and even look clearer and can still be contaminated with methane which brings up high, heavy metals, turbidity, radioactivity.  Keep your pre-test water testing in a safe place and show this to the DEP inspectors or others to see if there are any increases in what was tested.

Sincerely,

Vera Scroggins

Brackney, Pa.

We know about the horrific murders of nine black church members in Charleston. But do you know the unreported story of what didn't happen?

It's June 10, Wednesday, time for the 8 o'clock Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Church. Dylann Roof walks into the church and is welcomed into the study group. He sits quietly for an hour, then draws a .45 caliber pistol and starts shooting.

He kills nine parishioners. Then leaves, driving away in a car having a Confederate flag pictured on its front license plate holder.

When the congregation was sufficiently recovered, they reacted with one accord. How? With forgiveness. It was a remarkable demonstration of what we could be but seldom are.

Here's the rest of the story.

The malodorous presence of the race baiters, Jackson and Sharpton, made their de rigueur appearance. But their speeches were notably subdued among these devout souls sorrowing for their losses.

There was no line formed at the door of Park and Crump, civil rights attorneys, waiting to file a multitude of eight-figure lawsuits. However, Obama's DOJ will send an exorbitant $29 million to the families of the victims.

And what about the F_ _ _ The Police, Black Panthers, New Black Panther Party, and Black Supremacists? They were nowhere to be seen. Also numbered among the missing were those waving placards reading, No Justice, No Peace, or Black Lives Matter (as if some believe that they do not).

And the busloads of George Soros' paid demonstrators? They went without a payday.

In Charleston, there were no riots, no looters, no arsonists, no lovers of mayhem. Nor was the city burdened with millions of dollars in police overtime and property damages. The riot ravaged cities of Stanford, Ferguson, and Baltimore, were not as fortunate.

The church members just said, “We forgive you.” And peace reigned.

Long after the shout and the tumult of the lawless protesters of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Freddie Gray have faded, the “We forgive you,” shall be heard. (This writer hears it now.)

But what caused Roof's mindless rampage? The pathetic 21-year old with a history of street drug use was zonked out on non-prescribed Suboxone. This highly additive drug is linked to sudden outbursts of anger and violence. We've seen it many times in other unprovoked mass shooting.

In the past 20 years, there were 43 mass shootings linked to powerful psychotropic drugs such as Suboxone.

But that's too simple. It doesn't fit the spirit of the times, the zeitgeist. Today, everything must be viewed through the lens of racism. Hence, the real, honest-to-goodness cause for the Charleston massacre is racism. Remember that Confederate flag on Roof's car? Isn't that evidence enough?

It's not guns, or drugs, or a strung-out addict; it's the flag. “As long as we got a Confederate flag flying over them states in the South,” said Jesse Jackson, “ we are just saying in this nation that we support racists. We can have increased gun control, that won't matter.”

South Carolina's Governor Nikki Haley took the baton. She is leading a crusade to have the flag removed from the state capitol: “We are not going to allow this symbol to divide us any longer.” But that was just the beginning.

The flag is merely the segue for a full-blown exorcism of the South. The expanded campaign demands that everything connected with the Confederacy be expunged: statures, parks, monuments, names, even school mascots.

What's next, plowing under the cemeteries of the 260,000 Confederate war dead? Memphis Mayor A. C. Wharton wants to disinter and remove the bodies of Confederate General Nathan Forrest and his wife from a city park. It's a start.

If people are largely ignorant of what the Stars and Bars stands for, they can be easily forgiven. But political leaders and journalists should be held to a higher standard. They are not. Politicians are political animals. Like Pavlovian dogs they respond reflexively to the cry of the crowd.

What we have is mob rule, under the guise of civil rights. For now, the mob is focused on the South. But be warned, what seems like the end is just a beginning.

Soon this mob of cultural Nazis will invade the North. As in the South, everything that they define as offensive must be eradicated.

“My country is a racist country," wrote columnist Lindy West for NDTV. "It's a country built on white supremacy and the lie of freedom and opportunity. A place where white people live safer, freer, more prosperous lives than dehumanized black people."

Sufficiently extreme. It befits the times. It will fly.

Bob Scroggins

New Milford, PA