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County radio dispatchers reported a water rescue late Saturday night. According to dispatchers, a call was received from York County stating that a man with a flashlight was yelling for help from a small island in the Susquehanna River north of the Route 30 bridge. Dispatchers also reported a person in the water. No further details were available at presstime. (c) 2008 Intelligencer Journal. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning. All rights Reserved.

By Ad Crable Only a few years ago, it all seemed so promising. American shad, once a prized spring staple of locals' diet and an economic linchpin up and down the Susquehanna, at last seemed headed for a comeback amid a multi-state and federal restoration plan. Visions of again catching the silvery, forked-tail fish, perhaps frying its tasty roe in butter, danced in anglers' heads. Fish lifts or ladders - costing utilities tens of millions of dollars - were in place on all the lowermost...

By Tom Grace, The Daily Star, Oneonta, N.Y. Jul. 22--A beaver dam on a stream that feeds Otsego Lake is slated to be replaced this summer before it breaks again. Situated on a small brook on the lake's western shore, the dam has burst several times over the years, according to Matt Albright, assistant to the director of SUCO's Biological Field Station on the lake. "Every year or so, it washes out, and then a lot of what's behind it washes into the lake," he said. The periodic break...

By Mary Gail Hare, The Baltimore Sun Jul. 19--Deer Creek will be increasingly stressed by population growth in the next two decades, much of it caused by expansion at Aberdeen Proving Ground because of BRAC, according to a new regional study. The communities that rely on Deer Creek should develop additional water sources, the study by the Susquehanna River Basin Commission said. The Deer Creek watershed, a 171-square-mile area that begins in York County, Pa., and continues through...

By Angie Mason, York Daily Record, Pa. Jul. 3--A group of Mechanicsburg friends dropped inner tubes into the Yellow Breeches Creek around Messiah College in Cumberland County on Wednesday morning to beat the heat. They don't go tubing often, but one of them, Jared Adams, got the urge and persuaded the rest to join him. "It's just really hot today," said Kelsey Evans, 18. The group set out from a point north of where an Oklahoma man drowned Tuesday while tubing. Leon Clymer, 70, of...

By James Loewenstein, The Daily Review, Towanda, Pa. Jul. 2--Starting this month, Fortuna Energy Inc. is planning to drill wells at six different sites in western Bradford County to extract natural gas from the potentially very lucrative Marcellus Shale formation, company officials said Tuesday. Five of the wells will be in Troy Township and the sixth in Armenia Township, said Mark Scheuerman, Fortuna Energy's manager for legal and community relations. While the company hopes the wells...

By Jaime North, The Daily Item, Sunbury, Pa. Jul. 2--MONTANDON -- A strong show of support from parents has fueled the movement for a local community college despite a lack of participation from Valley school districts willing to open up their classrooms for student response. The Susquehanna Valley Community Education Project, which is trying to establish a community college for the four-county area, revealed the results of a survey Tuesday night during a steering committee meeting at the...

By James Loewenstein, The Daily Review, Towanda, Pa. Jul. 2--Starting this month, Fortuna Energy Inc. is planning to drill wells at six different sites in western Bradford County to extract natural gas from the potentially very lucrative Marcellus Shale formation, company officials said. Five of the wells will be in Troy Township and the sixth in Armenia Township, said Mark Scheuerman, Fortuna Energy's manager for legal and community relations. While the company hopes the wells will...

By Sean Adkins, York Daily Record, Pa. Jun. 25--Al Hartman focused on the Google Earth looping video of Spectra Energy's proposed corridor for a roughly 30-mile natural gas pipeline that would run from Lancaster County through southern York County. The Hellam Township resident watched as a yellow line depicted on the aerial video passed over the Susquehanna River, curving gently as it followed existing utility rights-of way. "Yup," Hartman said. "That's my property right...

By Sean Adkins, York Daily Record, Pa. Jun. 25--Al Hartman focused on the Google Earth looping video of Spectra Energy's proposed corridor for a roughly 30-mile natural gas pipeline that would run from Lancaster County through southern York County. The Hellam Township resident watched as a yellow line depicted on the aerial video passed over the Susquehanna River, curving gently as it followed existing utility rights-of way. "Yup," Hartman said. "That's my property right there, at the...