Archive - 2013 - News Article
April 28th
Dave Wheatley, the Kane Elks Corporation President, and Lorri Forquer, Kane Elks Lodge Secretary, present a check to Brenda Emer. A benefit was held at the Kane Elks on Saturday, April 20 at the club on Chestnut Street. The twelve-time cancer survivor has been taking part in a trial study in Pittsburgh.
April 26th
Small trees for small children.
This was the theme for the annual Arbor Day celebration at the Kane Elementary School.
ST. MARYS – Police, with guns drawn, surrounded a home in downtown St. Marys Friday in what became a brief, yet tense standoff with an armed suspect holed up inside.
April 25th
The Kane Borough Sewer Authority finally has been able to follow through with its plan to save interest fees by re-financing a 1994 loan.
JOHNSONBURG – Search warrants issued in the investigation into the murder of a Ridgway teen reveal key insights into what evidence police were looking for, and what they found, as they worked to tie their primary suspect, her 22-year-old boyfriend, to the killing.
April 24th
Charges against a Mt. Jewett couple for allegedly withholding food from their three adoptive children have been bound over to McKean County Court.
JOHNSONBURG – The man charged with murdering a Ridgway teen and dumping her body in a remote, swampy corner of an area park was in District Court Wednesday where a preliminary hearing saw charges of criminal homicide, aggravated assault and abuse of a corpse upheld against him.
April 23rd
SMETHPORT – Four McKean County employees are playing “musical chairs” as they switch from one job to another.
April 22nd
A Ridgway couple face drug charges following a traffic stop Monday afternoon on Route 321 near the entrance of Kane High School.
The Kane School Board's Finance and Operations Committee met Monday to review a proposed 2013-14 budget calling for a .35-mill increase in property taxes.
