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March 21st, 2013
The Kane Wolves 2013 baseball team will have a new coach leading them. Coach Josh Lindemuth served as an assistant under Mark Kossack for the previous two seasons. After Kossack resigned the post, Lindemuth moved up to the top position.
The National Honor Society at Kane High School held a Winter Fun Night earlier this week for students at the Kane Elementary School.
The Kane High School baseball and softball teams were scheduled to open their seasons in three days.
"They better use orange balls," meteorologist Barry Lambert joked Thursday.
Erie firefighters report the death of a woman on March 13 when a fire destroyed her home.
She was born on May 18, 1933 in Kane and is identified as Noreen Coleman Swift of the Summit area, daughter of the late Martin Coleman and the late Pauline Coleman of Kane.
Mrs. Swift attended Kane Schools and graduated from Kane High School and the St. Vincent School of Nursing.
She was the mother of seven children, eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
March 20th
STATE COLLEGE – At the press conference held in conjunction with the Central Pennsylvania Chapter of the National Football and College Football Hall of Fame’s 17th annual Awards Banquet, head football coaches Matt Rhule of Temple and Bill O’Brien of Penn State discussed their hopes for the upcoming 2013 football season.
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Mary F. Walters, 77, of 79 Stanton Brook Rd., Smethport, passed away Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at her residence.
Born June 29, 1935, in Halton, she was a daughter of the late Claude and Winifred Campbell Myers. On Oct. 8, 1955, she married Arthur C. Burt who preceded her in death. On Sept. 11, 1981, she married Howard "Joe" Walters who also preceded her in death.
Mrs. Walters, a homemaker, was a member of the Johnsonburg VFW, the American Legion in Crosby, the Kane Eagles Auxiliary and the Wilcox Sportsman's Club.
March 19th
CLARION – Of Johnsonburg's 30 wins this season, Tuesday's was the sweetest one of all.
So sweet, in fact, that the Rams earned a trip to Hershey and the school's first appearance in a PIAA championship game.
Johnsonburg advanced to the PIAA Class A championship game with a 59-53 win over Lincoln Park at Clarion University in the PIAA semifinal round held Tuesday night.
Johnsonburg coach Bill Shuey said the Rams believed they could win even with Lincoln Park having four Division I recruits and reaching the state final the last two seasons.
A truck driver escaped injury Tuesday when the tractor-trailer he was operating flipped on James City Hill on Route 66 in Wetmore Township south of Kane.
Dozens of area residents, local officials and members of Elk County CARES [Citizens Advocating Responsible Environmental Stewardship] flooded the new township building located at 1537 Montmorenci Rd. during Tuesday's regular Ridgway Township Board of Supervisors meeting to express their concern over a Marcellus Shale gas extraction site located near the Ridgway Reservoir.
