Timblin News

"This is Madame Marie Curie, alias Lizzie Neal, a gifted student who used her technology skills, learned mostly in Scott Sallack's technology class, to enter the contest put on by Samsung," said Cindy Taylor, sixth-grade English and gifted teacher at the middle school, at Wednesday's Punxsutawney Area School Board committee meeting.

In August, a mother missing overnight in Brookville, In November an 84 year old hunter lost in the woods, just last week an armed fugitive, these are just some of the rescues the Track and Trail Search and Rescue Team has been called out on.

An attempt to avoid a deer resulted in minor injuries for a Timblin man. 24-year-old Mark Shaffer was traveling on State Route 536 in Oliver Township, Jefferson County, when he swerved to avoid a deer.