MOTORCYCLE CRASH
A motorcyclist was taken to the hospital with what were believed to be serious leg injuries following a morning crash in Loyalsock Township yesterday. Emergency responders were called out just before 7:30am to the 2800 block of Lycoming Creek Road for a motorcycle down. The operator who was not identified was reported to have severe leg trauma and was transported to an area hospital for treatment. That person’s condition has not been released. Crews were on the scene for close to an hour and a half. No one else was reported involved.
LOGISTICS STILL BEING WORKED OUT
Though complete logistics have not yet been announced yet for President Trump’s rally at the Williamsport, Regional Airport, Montoursville police on their Facebook page yesterday warned residents of heavy traffic and the difficulty of finding parking in the borough on Monday. Police say that accessibility to the airport will only be available from South Loyalsock Avenue and that protestors are expected with an area set up for them in the 200 block of Jordan Avenue at South Loyalsock Avenue. More details are expected to be released in the next day or two.
MAN JAILED FOR ASSAULT
A Jersey Shore man was jailed earlier this week after attacking a woman in his home. Tiadaghton Valley Regional Police have charged 40 year old Scott A. Marshall with strangulation, simple assaults and terroristic threats for the incident which occurred on Wednesday at his home along Route 44. Police say that he jumped on Rebecca Peters while she was sleeping, proceeding to choke the woman. He was arraigned and jailed in lieu of $25,000 bail.
MAN JAILED FOLLOWING DRUG SALE
The Lycoming County District Attorney’s office has filed several drug charges against a Williamsport man. They say 25 year old Akeem Hall, tried to sell $100 of crack cocaine to a confidential informant at the Weis Markets on River Avenue on Wednesday. He was charged with possession with intent to deliver, possession of a controlled substance and criminal use of a communications facility and jailed in lieu of $100,000 bail.
WANTED MAN IN CUSTODY
State police in Selinsgrove say a man wanted for assaulting two women on Sunday in Snyder County has been taken into custody. On Sunday, 40 year old Christopher Hare of Sunbury allegedly assaulted the women, strangling one, and hitting another causing both to go to the hospital for treatment. He then fled the scene. Police reported yesterday that he was taken into custody but they had no other information as to where and exactly when. He assault charges as well as several other counts and is jailed.
GEISINGER TO MOVE LIFE FLIGHT 1
Geisinger is moving it’s base for Life Flight one. The helicopter and it’s crew was based at the hospital in Danville, but officails say they are getting set to create more space at the Danville facility for the Life Flight maintenance team, and will move Life Flight One and it’s crew to be based out of the Penns Valley Airport near Selinsgrove early this summer. They say the move will help the maintenance staff to better take care of the Lifeflight fleet which has nine medical helicopter with 6 operating around the clock from bases in Central and Northeaster Pennsylvania.
CAR INTO PORCH IN SUNBURY
A section of Reagen Street in Sunbury was shut down for several hours yesterday into last night when a vehicle went off the roadway, striking a house there. Officials there say the car went off of the roadway into a the porch of a home and then slid into the basement. The road has to be shut down to cars from Catawissa Avenue to 6th Street and to trucks between 4th and 11th streets as crews worked to remove the car and shore up the home. No one was reported injured. The driver was not named.
LAWSUITS FILED
As some 900 former employees of Wood-Mode in Snyder County continue to attend various meetings and try to decide their next moves after being abruptly let go this week, two separate class action lawsuits are being filed on their behalf. The two petitions were filed Wednesday in Federal Court in Harrisburg alleging the company violated the WARN Act by failing to provide a 60 day notice to employees that the company would shut down. Each action seeks a judgment equal to pay wages, vacation time, retirement, health benefits and more for a period of 60 days.
WORK TO BEGIN ON WEST END OF FOURTH STREET
While work continues on the East End of the West Fourth Street Reconstruction Project in Newberry, PennDOT has announced that beginning on Tuesday of next week, work will begin on the West End of the project between Mahaffey Street and Foresman Street. The contractor will begin to install water lines and sanitary laterals on that section of Fourth Street and a barrier will be installed ot maintain a single lane of traffic in both directions with a 10 foot width restriction in place.
