Cub Scout Pack 81 participated in their annual American Flag Placement at the Lanesboro Cemetery and Saint John's Cemetery for American Legion Post 86 on May 18th, 2018. Ten Cub Scouts from the Pack, along with Scout Leaders, parents and siblings removed the worn flags throughout the cemeteries and replaced them with new ones in time for Memorial Day. The flags removed will be properly retired on June 14th - Flag Day, in a ceremony hosted by the American Legion Post 86 members.

On May 25th at St. Paul's Episcopal Church Hall in Montrose, Mary Catherine Chidester became the 2018/2019 Susquehanna County Dairy Princess and Brooke Arnold Alternate Dairy Princess.

2018/2019 Susquehanna County Dairy Princess and Promotion Court, pictured (l-r) are: front - Ava Hughes, Chelsea Empet, Katelyn Farley, Courtney Marvin and Autumn Bonivita; back - Alivia Hughes, Holly Harvatine, Brooke Arnold, Mary Catherine Chidester, Elizabeth Chidester, Jillian Gustin and Kaelynn Brant.

Mary Catherine is the daughter of Charles and Lorraine Chidester, homeschooled completing her junior year of high school. Princess Mary Catherine lives on her family dairy farm in Brooklyn Township, spending many hours helping on the farm.

Alternate Princess Brooke is the daughter of Mark and Becky Arnold completing her junior year at Elk Lake High School. Brooke is a 4-H dairy project member, raising her dairy animals on her Grandfather Arnold's former dairy farm.

During her reign Dairy Princess Mary Catherine Chidester will fulfill her duties with the help of Alternate Princess Brooke Arnold, Dairy Ambassadors Kaelynn Brant, Alivia Hughes, Jillian Gustin, Elizabeth Chidester, Courtney Marvin and Holly Harvatine as well as Dairy Maids Chelsea Empet, Autumn Bonavita, Ava Hughes and Katelyn Farley.

Dairy Royalty. Pictured (l-r) are: Dana Nunemacher, Vicki Clark, Michayla Stahl, Mary Catherine Chedister and Brooke Arnold.

This team of dairy promoters will be working together educating both adults and young children and all ages in between about the importance of dairy products being part of their diet as well as being advocates for Susquehanna County dairy farmers.

At Pageant 2016/2017 Susquehanna County Dairy Princess Brooke Marvin and 2012/2013 Dairy Princess and PA State Alternate Princess Callie Curley presented the evening program.

Brooke Marvin welcomed everyone to Pageant and introduced all of the girls to speak. Brooke reported on the over 550 dairy promotions completed by the 2017/2018 dairy promotion team.

Callie Curley presented outgoing Princess Michayla Stahl with a scholarship award provided by the Susquehanna County Dairy Promotion Committee to be used when she begins college in fall of 2019. Outstanding scrapbook awards were presented to 2017-2018 Dairy Promotion Team members Vicki Clark, Alivia Hughes, Mary Catherine Chidester and Katelyn Farley. Receiving honorable mention awards were Kaelynn Brant, Michayla Stahl, Elizabeth Chidester and Courtney Marvin.

2017/2018 Dairy Princess Michayla Stahl gave a farewell speech complementing the members of her court on the excellent job they did working with her during the past year and wished the new Dairy Princess Mary Catherine and Alternate Princess Brooke and all of the Dairy Maids and Dairy Ambassadors on the Susquehanna County Dairy Promotion Court a successful year of promoting the dairy industry all around Susquehanna County.

2017/2018 Alternate Dairy Princesses Vicki Clark and Dana Nunemacher crowned Alternate Princess Brooke Arnold followed by 2017/2018 Dairy Princess Michayla Stahl crowning 2018/2019 Dairy Princess Mary Catherine Chidester assisted by crown bearer Ava Hughes.

The committee would like to thank Cathy Rezykowski for providing music and Jessie Blaney of Blaney Photography for sharing her talent photographing the girls at Pageant.

For more information on the Susquehanna County Dairy Princess Program or to schedule an event, contact Evie Goff at 570-278-1212 or gofffarm@epix.net or Dairy Princess Mary Catherine Chidester or Alternate Dairy Princess Brooke Arnold.

Mudflap

This cool dude in the duckie pj's is Mudflap, a fine specimen of pittie perfection, all wrapped up in one small package. Mudflap is a meaty hunkster whose very short legs and stocky body add up to one adorable fun loving guy. Since this cutie pie does not like to share his humans, a one pet household would suit him best. Neutered, UTD, microchipped, and ready to fill your life with never ending joy, Mudflap would love for you to call him your own.

True Friends is very excited to be a part of the momentous occasion, "Pittie Palooza" this Saturday at Maiolatesi Winery in Scott Township. In honor of Pitties everywhere, we are waiving our adoption fees on all our Pitbull mixes for the entire week. Please stop in and meet our wide variety of Pitties at True Friends or visit our site for a full listing. For more information on the event visit, PittiePalooza.com.

The Nicholson Heritage Association is excited to announce that the Nicholson Tourism Center at the Historic Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (DL&W) Railroad Station project is ready to go out to bid for renovations. This historic transportation facility preservation and community economic revitalization project received a $821,276 PennDOT Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) grant for rehabilitation work in late 2014. Since that time, the Association has been diligently working with our partners, including PennDOT, to lay the necessary ground work and meet grant requirements in order to bid the project out.

The deadline for bids to be submitted is June 29, 2018. There will be a non-mandatory pre-bid conference held at 9:00am on June 19, 2018, at the project site on Route 11, Nicholson, PA 18446. Representatives of the Nicholson Heritage Association and Reuther+Bowen, PC will be present to discuss the project. For those interested in submitting a bid, please visit the following webpage for more detailed information: http://www.nicholsonheritage.org/bid.

The Nicholson Tourism Center at the Historic DL&W Railroad Station will revitalize the region by attracting tourists to the station, the Tunkhannock Creek Viaduct (also known as the Tunkhannock Viaduct or the Nicholson Bridge), Nicholson, Historic Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, and the Endless Mountains. The station also will attract visitors to the region by linking to the area's railroading and transportation attractions, including the Martins Creek Viaduct, Viaduct Valley Way Scenic Byway, Starrucca Viaduct, Honesdale: the birthplace of American Railroad, Anthracite Heritage Museum and Iron Furnaces, Electric City Trolley Museum, Lackawanna Coal Mine Tour, and Steamtown National Historic Site (see infographic). It will also be used for community events.

Marion Sweet, Chair of the Association said, "We are excited about the next phase of The Nicholson Tourism Center at the Historic DL&W Railroad Station. Thank you to our partners and individuals who have given so much to keep this project moving forward." With Wyoming County as project sponsor for the PennDOT grant, Wyoming County Commissioner Ron Williams, who at one time worked at the station said, "This is a great step forward. We continue to strongly support the Nicholson Heritage Association and this project that will have a long-term positive impact on our county and region."

The Association purchased the station in June 2012, with donations from individuals, businesses, and a $25,000 Pepsi Refresh Project grant. In 2014, the Association held two public meetings, to present and discuss the results of the feasibility study, funded mainly in part by a grant from the Endless Mountains Heritage Region with PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources funds. The designs are complete and possible in part to a Tom E. Dailey Foundation grant.

While the TAP grant provides the funds needed to rehabilitate the station, donations continue to be needed to ensure the long-term stability of the project and are greatly appreciated, either by mail to the historical group at PO Box 496, Nicholson, PA 18446 or PayPal. More information and a list of our supporters at: http://www.nicholsonstation.org.

The Nicholson Heritage Association is dedicated to the historical preservation of Nicholson and the surrounding region. Nicholson is a small rural town nestled in Wyoming County and the Endless Mountains of Northeastern Pennsylvania. Besides this initiative, the Association meets regularly to discuss initiatives that include promoting Nicholson and its historic structures, as well as the Viaduct Valley Way Scenic Byway. The next meeting is at 7pm on Wednesday, June 27, 2018, at the First Presbyterian Church, 65 State Street, in Nicholson. For updates on the Association, please visit http:www.nicholsonheritage.org or visit them on Facebook and Twitter.

Youth groups across Pennsylvania that have carried out projects to benefit their township in the last year are invited to enter the Youth Awards Contest of the Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors (PSATS). Four winning groups will each receive a $500 cash award and a framed certificate.

The award program is open to Boy and Girl Scout troops, 4-H clubs, church and school groups, and civic service club youth organizations from elementary through 12th grade. To be eligible, all projects must involve youth in planning and implementation and must have a major impact on one or more townships of the second class (governed by a board of supervisors). Eligible projects must have been undertaken between July 1, 2017 and June 30, 2018. Multi-year, ongoing projects are also eligible as long as part of the project occurred during the contest year.

Eligible projects include such activities as community beautification, safety, recreation, voter registration, conservation, and direct services to residents of the community, such as the elderly, children, the underprivileged, the handicapped and disabled, and hospitalized patients.

Guidelines and entry forms are available online at www.psats.org (choose the PSATS Youth Awards button). The deadline for submitting the completed entry forms to the county association president is July 2, 2018.

Senator Lisa Baker, R-20th, announced that Field Representative Tom Yoniski will be available for consultation from 10am - 12pm on Tuesday, June 19 at the Forest City Borough Building, 535 Main St., Forest City and from 1 - 3pm that same day at the Lenox Township Municipal Building, 2811 State Route 92, Kingsley.

While appointments are recommended, walk-ins are welcome.

Constituents are encouraged to visit with any questions or problems relating to state matters and no appointment is necessary, though they can be scheduled. Concerns may also be addressed by visiting Senator Baker's district office at 22 Dallas Shopping Center, Dallas, by visiting her website at www.senatorbaker.com or by calling (570) 675-3931.

The Montrose Senior Center, located at 145 Church Street in Montrose, will host Janene Holter, Senior Supervisory Special Agent with the Attorney General's Office, for a program reviewing "Top Ten Scams" on Monday, June 25 at 11:00am. This program is free and open to adults 60 years and older. Participants seeking to enjoy lunch following the program are asked to call 1-800-634-3746 by 10:00am on June 20 to reserve a meal.

The B/S/S/T Area Agency on Aging, Inc. is funded in part by the Pennsylvania Department of Aging; the United Way of Bradford County; the Lycoming County United Way; the United Way of Susquehanna County and the Bradford, Sullivan, Susquehanna, and Tioga County Commissioners. For additional information on Area Agency on Aging services, please call 1-800-982-4346.

The Susquehanna County Transcript annual graduation issue will be published June 27, 2018.

Advertisers who have not been contacted are asked to call our office at 570-853-3134 if you wish to congratulate area students on their achievements.

Parents and families of graduating seniors in any of our six county schools can pick up a copy of the issue at any of our newsstands throughout Susquehanna County.

Following are May, 2018 sentences as handed down by Susquehanna County Court.

Jacob Owen Sutton, 22, of New Milford, PA to 18 days to 23 months in Susquehanna County Correctional Facility, pay $100 fine, pay cost of prosecution, pay $100 Act 198 fee, attend a mental health evaluation, obtain a drug and alcohol evaluation, not to have contact with anyone on supervision, not to possess any firearms while on supervision, perform 25 hours of community service, not to possess transport or consume alcoholic beverages and/or controlled substances without a valid prescription for Firearms Carried without a License in New Milford Borough on April 11, 2017.

Jonathan F Fathi, 34, of Nicholson, PA to 6 months probation, pay $300 fine, pay cost of prosecution, pay $100 Act 198 fee, pay $75 PA Transportation Trust Fund fee, pay $10 EMS, complete an alcohol highway safe driving school program, obtain a drug and alcohol evaluation, not to utilize controlled substances or alcohol beverages while on supervision, perform 10 hours of community service for Driving Under the Influence in Lenox Township on October 17, 2017.  Mr. Fathi also received 12 months probation to run concurrent to the above sentence, pay $100 fine, pay cost of prosecution, pay $100 Act 19 fee, obtain a drug and alcohol evaluation, not to utilize any alcohol or controlled substances while on supervision without a valid prescription for Possession of Drug Paraphernalia in Lenox Township on October 17, 2017.

Brandon K Housen, 29, of Montrose, PA to 12 months probation, pay $300 fine, pay cost of prosecution, perform 10 hours of community service, not to possess transport or consume alcoholic beverages and/or controlled substances without a valid prescription, write a letter of apology of to the Susquehanna County Sheriff, be subject to random drug and alcohol screenings for Disorderly Conduct in Bridgewater Township on April 17, 2017.

Alicia Dawn Prater, 42, of New Milford, PA to 18 months probation, pay $250 fine, pay cost of prosecution, pay $50 Criminal Justice Enhancement Act fee, pay restitution to the victim in this case, perform 10 hours of community service for Theft by Unlawful Taking on May 1, 2016 in Harford Township.

Peter Ruiz, 38, of Susquehanna, PA to 3 days to 6 months in Susquehanna County Correctional Facility, pay a $1,000 fine, pay cost of prosecution, pay $100 Act 198 fee, pay $75 PA Transportation Trust Fund fee, pay $10 EMS, obtain a drug and alcohol evaluation, complete the Alcohol Highway Safe Driving School Program, not to utilize controlled substances or alcoholic beverages while on supervision, be subject to random drug and alcohol screenings, perform 10 hours of community service for Driving Under the Influence in Hallstead Borough on July 15, 2017.

Franklin Kamarauskas, Jr, 49, of Montrose, PA to 6 months probation, pay $300 fine, pay cost of prosecution, pay $100 Act 198 fee, pay $75 PA Transportation Trust Fund Fee, pay $10 EMS, obtain a CRN evaluation, continue with drug and alcohol treatment, complete the Alcohol Highway Safe Driving School Program, not to utilize alcoholic beverages while on supervision, perform 10 hours of community service for Driving Under the Influence in Bridgewater Township on November 18, 2017.

Diana M Sena, 47, of Montrose, PA to 10 days SCRAM home confinement, followed by 23 months probation, pay $500 fine, pay cost of prosecution, pay $100 Act 198 fee, pay $300 PA Transportation Trust Fund fee, pay $10 EMS, pay $50 Criminal Justice Enhancement Act fee, not to utilize alcohol or controlled substances without a valid prescription, be subject to random drug and alcohol screenings, not to enter any establishment whose principle purpose is the sale of alcohol, not to have contact with anyone n supervision, complete the Safe Driving School Program, continue with drug and alcohol counseling, perform 10 hours of community service for Driving Under the Influence in Bridgewater Township on April 5, 2017.

Dylan Michael Slater, 21, of Nicholson, PA to 18 months probation, pay $100 fine, pay cost of prosecution, pay $50 Criminal Justice Enhancement Act fee, pay restitution to the victim in this case, continue with any mental health treatment, not to consume alcohol or controlled substances, not to possess any firearms while on supervision, not to have contact with anyone on supervision, perform 100 hours of community service for Failure to Prevent Catastrophe in Harford Township on April 16, 2017.  Mr. Slater also received 18 months probation to run consecutive to the above sentence, pay $100 fine, pay cost of prosecution, pay $50 Criminal Justice Enhancement Act fee, pay restitution to the victim in this case, continue with mental health treatment, not to consume alcohol or controlled substances while on supervision, not to possess any firearms while on supervision, not to have contact with anyone on supervision, perform 100 hours community service for Failure to Prevent Catastrophe in Harford Township on March 10, 2017.

Michele Celine Crisman, 37, of Laceyville, PA to 5 days SCRAM home confinement followed by 5 months and 25 days of probation, pay $300 fine, pay cost of prosecution, pay $100 Act 198 fee, pay $150 PA Transportation Trust Fund fee, pay $10 EMS, complete an Alcohol Highway Safe Driving School Program, continue with drug and alcohol treatment, perform 10 hours of community service, not to possess transport or consume alcoholic beverages and/or controlled substances without a valid prescription for Driving Under the Influence in Auburn Township on December 19, 2017.

Melissa Ann Sussman, 33, of Springville, PA to 5 days to 6 months in Susquehanna County Correctional Facility, pay $300 fine, pay cost of prosecution, pay $100 Act 198 fee, pay $150 PA Transportation Trust Fund fee, pay $10 EMS, complete an Alcohol Highway Safe Driving School Program, continue with drug and alcohol treatment, perform 10 hours community service, not to possess transport or consume alcoholic beverages and/or controlled substances without a valid prescription for Driving Under the Influence in Great Bend Township on August 11, 2017.

Jeanine Marie Cooke, 42, of Springville, PA to 30 days to 23 ½ months in Susquehanna County Correctional Facility, pay $500 fine, pay cost of prosecution, pay $100 Act 198 fee, pay $300 PA Transportation Trust Fund fee, pay $10 EMS, complete an Alcohol Highway Safe Driving School Program, continue with drug and alcohol treatment, perform 25 hours of community service, not to possess transport or consume alcoholic beverages and/or controlled substances w/out a valid prescription, not to have contact with anyone on supervision, not to enter any establishment whose principle purpose is the sale of alcoholic beverages for Driving Under the Influence in Springville Township on May 25, 2017.

The following were accepted into the Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition Program: Frederick T Noldy, Karleen Mazzone, Brandyn S Legg, Christopher David Rockwell, Dominic J Dibble, Maura Catherine Gillespie, Samantha Jean McWhirr, Scott Allen Rivenburg, William Axel McNeice, Caleb Andrew Tunilo.