Montour County News

The Montour County Historical Society wants to buy the former Elks building and turn it into an iron museum.

Residents peppered the Montour County Commissioners with questions about ways to reduce a 24 percent real estate tax increase in the 2010 budget.

There are 2,500 deputy sheriffs in Pennsylvania who cannot perform their jobs the way they should, according to Montour County Sheriff Ray Gerringer.

At 90, Washingtonville Mayor Esther Cotner has decided to retire from one of her positions.

An admitted history buff, George Gehrig has a lot to share about Danville, the place where he was born and raised.

A Montour County jury has cleared Geisinger Medical Center and two physicians of negligence in a civil court case involving a Shamokin woman who died following surgery eight years ago.

A heavy-drinking Montandon man raped a 32-year-old woman at gunpoint before allowing the mother of three to send her children off to the school bus, according to state police at Milton.

The Central Susquehanna Valley's four counties will receive nearly $16,000 of a total $1.3 million in state reimbursement to be shared by all 67 counties to perform a recount of the Nov.

In May 1908, the Mahoning Presbyterian English Congregation North offered and donated a lot of land, formerly known as the Presbyterian Cemetery, to Danville as a public park.

A brand new building in Montour County is seeing its first occupants. Geisinger workers moved into the new building in downtown Danville.

An oversized load that has been stuck in part of Montour County for more than two weeks is finally on the move again.

Every vote counts, especially when no one is on the ballot. In Washingtonville, the top vote-getter in last week's election for one Borough Council seat is a candidate who received three write-in votes.

Mayor Ed Coleman was forced to break a 3-3 tie on a motion to allocate $36,000 in 2010 Montour County Community Development Block Grand funds to the Danville Senior Citizens Center.

DANVILLE, MONTOUR COUNTY Geisinger Medical Center is confirming its first death resulting from the H1N1 virus.

The federal government's stimulus plan has hardly made a dent in the region's job losses over the first nine months of the year, an analysis by The Associated Press shows.

The insurance company for Eric Martz's mother has agreed to settle a lawsuit over his alleged knife-pointrape of a mentally-challenged woman, the alleged victim's lawyer said.

Seven in 10 registered voters in Montour, Snyder and Union counties did not participate in general elections in 2001 and 2005.

October was one of the Valley's wettest months in recent history, a meteorologist said Friday, and it's not over yet.

Townships would be financially strapped by a proposed tax that would force them to pay for state police services, says a supervisor in West Hemlock Township, Montour County.

Judge Thomas James hopes in his next 10-year term to oversee a share of criminal cases in Montour County in addition to the civil cases he already handles.