Tioga County News

Fortuna Energy, frustrated by New York's slow progress in rewriting the environmental regulations needed to tap into the Marcellus Shale, plans an aggressive drilling program in Pennsylvania's Northern Tier.

OWEGO -- Visitors to the Tioga County Historical Society museum can admire a wooly mammoth's tooth, a coat stained with President Abraham Lincoln's blood and a humidor made from a rhinoceros' foot which belonged to President Theodore Roosevelt.

This from The Owego Rotary Club and the Tioga County Tourism office: Bike Tioga 2009 The Owego Rotary Club and the Tioga County Tourism office invite you to participate in this yeara s Bike Tioga event, to be held on Saturday and Sunday, August 8-9. As an organized bike ride, the event is not a race.

The Tioga County Council on the Arts has recently been awarded a grant in the amount of $5,800 from the Mildred Faulkner Truman Foundation of Owego.

At the June 23 regular meeting of the Candor Town Board, Supervisor Terry Collins reported on items from the last Tioga County Council of Governments meeting.

Trying to boost economic growth, Southern Tier counties have been approved to bond nearly $20 million in all for public and private projects under the federal economic stimulus program, said U.S. Rep.

Two Binghamton men are facing forgery charges after police say they used their jobs as meat sellers to steal some checks.

OWEGO - Visitors to Owego's Strawberry Festival this weekend can sip wine with their strawberry shortcake, browse through the village's unique shops or use grandma's secret recipe to try to win the pie-baking contest.

Three free Kids Night Out concerts for children will be held from 7 to 8 p.m. July 3, 10 and 17 at the courthouse gazebo in Owego.

Tioga County Treasurer James McFadden was named finance office of the year during the recent conference of the New York State Treasurers and Finance Officers Association held in Syracuse.

Federal stimulus money is coming to Chemung and Tioga counties to resurface a part of Route 17.

OWEGO -- Volunteer firefighters are expected to pack tonight's village board meeting and let trustees know they don't appreciate an estimated 315 of the department's members being dropped from their ranks.

The new Shangri-La II Motor Speedway in Tioga Center will open on Fourth of July weekend.

An Owego man is facing multiple charges after he allegedly assaulted a woman and the police twice, according to the Owego police department.

Tioga County motorists may be barred from texting behind the wheel this fall, according to a local law under consideration by county legislators.

Any Tioga County World War II veteran may attend a free dinner on Sunday, Flag Day, at the Glenn A. Warner Post 1371, Veterans of Foreign Wars, 207 Main St., Owego.

Rising teen pregnancy rates in Southern Tier counties are following a national trend, pointing to a need for better education and awareness, according to public health and other officials.

Stella Reschke, Director of Tioga County Tourism, talks about the annual strawberry festival.

Overnight visitors to Tioga County could pay a higher hotel/motel tax if state legislators agree.

The Tioga County Tourism Office, 80 North Ave., Owego, carries Tioga County note cards with envelopes and a free "tourism" pen in packages of eight for $7. There are four different note cards that feature a popular image of the Court Street Bridge, a child hugging a baby goat from Side Hill Acres Goat Farm, a view from Evergreen Cemetery of the ...