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Judge sentences Overbeck to 19 1/2 to 40 years in prison for Big Run arsons

May 16, 2012

Larry McGuire

BROOKVILLE — Wednesday, Judge John H. Foradora sentenced a former Big Run Volunteer Fire Department member to 19 1/2 to 40 years in a state correctional facility on numerous arson charges.

Anthony Overbeck, Big Run, was arrested Aug. 10, 2011, and charged with a number of crimes that included arson and related offenses in connection with a fire at a two-story unoccupied residence at the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Union Street in Big Run. He also confessed to seven other fires that occurred in the Big Run area last year, including one that destroyed Big Run Carpet June 19, 2011.

Police: Enforcing new anti-texting law almost impossible

May 16, 2012

Natalie Bruzda

nbruzda@punxsutawneyspirit.com

BROOKVILLE — After two months, local police officials say the state’s new ban on texting is nearly impossible to enforce.

Locally, Brookville Borough Police and Punxsutawney Borough Police officers have not issued any texting-ban citations.

And statewide, the Pennsylvania State Police have issued only 44 citations since Gov. Tom Corbett’s new law went into effect March 8.

Program cuts at Jeff Tech will affect 27 students

May 16, 2012

Natalie Bruzda

nbruzda@punxsutawneyspirit.com

REYNOLDSVILLE — As another school year is ending, some students at Jeff Tech are not wondering about their summer plans, but about what course of study to pursue next year.

May 3, the Jeff Tech Operating Committee voted unanimously to eliminate the marketing/retailing and lumbering programs offered at Jeff Tech.

This action affects 27 undergraduate students.

Council OKs rezoning request for new one-stop medical facility

May 15, 2012

Larry McGuire

lmcguire@punxsutawneyspirit.com

PUNXSUTAWNEY — Monday, Punxsutawney Borough Council approved a request to rezone the area of Prushnok Drive from industrial to town center commercial to accommodate the planned construction of a new health care facility in that area.

The zoning change had already been approved by the Planning Commission.

Cyclist stops in Punxsy as part of Canada-to-Florida trip to fight cancer

May 15, 2012

Tom Chapin

editor@punxsutawneyspirit.com

PUNXSUTAWNEY — Call it a very intense training regiment.

Twenty-two-year old Mathieu Krsnik, of St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, has visited Boston and locations in New York state, but he hopes to see much more — all before the second weekend in June — of the United States on a cycling trip all the way to Florida.

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Judge sentences Overbeck to 19 1/2 to 40 years in prison for Big Run arsons

May 16, 2012

Police: Enforcing new anti-texting law almost impossible

May 16, 2012

Program cuts at Jeff Tech will affect 27 students

May 16, 2012

Council OKs rezoning request for new one-stop medical facility

May 15, 2012

Cyclist stops in Punxsy as part of Canada-to-Florida trip to fight cancer

May 15, 2012

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