Columbia-Cross-Roads News

Oct. 25--COLUMBIA CROSS ROADS -- Family and friends of service members gathered Saturday at the Castle farm near Columbia Cross Roads to welcome home some area service members returning from overseas deployments.

The following marriage licenses were recorded recently at the Bradford County Courthouse.

PennDOT is advising motorists in Bradford County that the following state highways will be posted with permanent, year-round, 10-ton weight restrictions: State Route 3008 from Route 154 at Canton to the intersection with Allens Crossing Road near West Franklin.

* SMITH -- A son, Friday, Sept. 4, 2009, to Ed and Tanya Smith of Campbell. * CHRISTMAN -- A daughter, Tuesday, Sept.

Robert Cochran, of Columbia Cross Roads, had a 20-year law enforcement career in Florida before back surgery forced him to seek less physically demanding work.

Robert Cochran probably isn't what organizers of a new criminal justice internship had in mind when they started the program.

State police in Towanda say a 37-year-old woman and a 9-year-old girl received minor injuries after the car they were in was struck by a hay rake that had come unhitched from a Ford Ranger.

Eight Bradford County youths sure know their way around farm machinery. They achieved certification through the National Safe Tractor and Machinery Operation Training Program after passing a final exam at the Claverack Rural Electric Cooperative office in Wysox.

Two people were taken to Mount Nittany Medical Center for treatment following a crash that closed one lane of Interstate 80 for about an hour Sunday afternoon.