Pond Eddy News

Jessica Snyder manned the booth at Kittatinny Canoes on Route 97 right outside of Sparrowbush on Friday.

Obama clean energy...Jackson's family...Day care center drugs WASHINGTON In his weekend media chat, President Barack Obama hails House passage of clean energy legislation and urges senators to get on board.

Authorities say a drunken 64-year-old man was electrocuted early Saturday morning when he stood in a puddle and cut a live power line with an industrial saw.

New York authorities say a man was fatally electrocuted early Saturday when he tried to cut through a downed power line with an industrial saw.

A New York man was fatally electrocuted early Saturday when he tried to cut through a downed power line with an industrial saw.

New York authorities say a man was fatally electrocuted early today when he tried to cut through a downed power line with an industrial saw.

New York authorities say a man was fatally electrocuted early Saturday when he tried to cut through a downed power line with an industrial saw.

The New York-Pennsylvania Joint Interstate Bridge Commission approved capital construction and maintenance plans for 10 Upper Delaware River bridges at its annual meeting held May 28 at Pennsylvania Department of Transportation District 4-0 headquarters in Dunmore.

This is the way the summer began: with a whimper, not a bang. At least that's the way the season started off Saturday in stretches of the Upper Delaware Scenic Byway.

Three more local stream gauges used to forecast flooding and recreation conditions have been rescued from New York City budget cuts.

It's been seven years since the Shohola Township Board of Supervisors began pressing PennDOT to replace the Pond Eddy bridge.

Despite a tidal wave of protest over the closing of more than two dozen tools that help predict local flooding, New York City will restore funding only to three river gauges until 2010, the Times Herald-Record has learned.

In what Pike County, Pa., historian George Fluhr is calling "the latest in a series of definitive statements," the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation says the Pond Eddy Bridge must be replaced.

Because of budget constraints, some 50 water gages in the state are slated to be shut down, some in as little as three months, others by September 2010.

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation has announced its intention to replace the historic Pond Eddy Bridge, which connects Lumberland, in Sullivan County, with Pond Eddy, Pa.

'It's a town issue, not a pet lover's issue,' said Joan Rosenfelt, stroking the glossy fur of her cat, Mickey.