Thompson News

County residents won't feel an extra pinch in their wallets from the county's portion of their tax bills next year.

Christmas is a season of praise and thanksgiving to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.

Susquehanna County Court Notes appear each Friday in The Times-Tribune. MARRIAGE LICENSES - James A. Warren, Savannah, N.Y., and Lennae Reidsema, Tunkhannock.

Nine short months ago, the Susquehan na River Basin Commission and Dela ware and Potomac river-basin commissions celebrated the restora tion of our federal funds following a hard- fought, 11-year struggle.

Nicholas Renninger, 3, walks in front of his father's casket, Sgt. Mark Renninger, 39, as he is escorted by an unidentified police officer toward a NASCAR racing car on display at a memorial service for four slain Lakewood police officers, Tuesday, Dec.

PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS - Duane S. and Laurie L. Nolan to Jennifer Sutton and Erich Portz, a property in Clifford Twp.

Oakland borough elected a new mayor in last week's election. Republican Randy Glover defeated Democratic incumbent Wendy Durkin with a 14 vote margin, 59-45. Write-in votes determined the mayor's race outcome in some boroughs.

In September, Pennsylvania's unemployment rate rose, but stayed under the national average, which is now more than 10-percent for the first time in 30 years.

The fall term of the Montrose Area Adult School concludes this week with a Sunday afternoon, Nov.

The Johnstown Unit of the NAACP will hold its annual Freedom Fund Banquet on Oct.

Businessman Rick Marcho presented Gibson Township supervisors with 34 pages of petitions with some 648 residents names on them.

Pastor William Hagenbuch and the members of the Harford Congregational United Church of Christ honored the county's firefighters and emergency medical service personnel during a Sunday morning service Sept.

The Eastern Susquehanna County Partnership proposed zoning map. The Neighborhood Commercial zone that runs along all of Rts.

For nearly three years, representatives of Thompson and Uniondale Boroughs and Ararat, Gibson, Herrick and Thompson townships have worked together as the Eastern Susquehanna County Partnership to prepare a zoning ordinance tailored to their communities.

He may be a fiscal conservative, but U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson's spending on staff salaries in his first three months in office puts him at the top of his class.

In 1994, the Republicans swept into office claiming they would change America with the Contract With America.

In 1997, the Lemont Village Association purchased the John Thompson Coal Sheds and Granary, or The Granary, which was built in 1885 and is the last remaining wooden grain elevator in Pennsylvania.

In Pittsburgh, we hear a lot about the city's Irish, German, Italian and Eastern European heritage.