Welcome to this week’s edition of the Gantdaily Weekly Reload.
This week the news team brought you coverage from the CRC’s visioning meeting, Clearfield Borough Council and Clearfield School District.
Gant also brought you coverage of an accident that left two people injured. a juvenile charged for sending nude pictures and an accidental shooting.
For these stories and more keep reading the GantDaily Weekly Reload.
Clearfield County DA: Juvenile Charged for Sending Nude Pictures
CLEARFIELD – Clearfield County District Attorney, William A. Shaw, Jr., announces that a juvenile petition has been filed charging a Clearfield County juvenile for sending nude pictures.
Shaw identified the juvenile as a 15 year old girl from Clearfield County. The girl is currently in the custody of her mother.
The juvenile petition filed by Trooper William Mostyn of the Pennsylvania State Police, Woodland Barracks, charges the juvenile with possession of child pornography, distributing child pornography, and creating child pornography.
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PSP Ridgway Reports Two Injured in Three Vehicle Accident
HUSTON TOWNSHIP – State police in Ridgway responded to a three vehicle accident on Wednesday that left two people with moderate injuries.
According to police Rosemary Burfield of DuBois was traveling south on state Route 255, as was a vehicle driven by William Kinderman of Rockton, who was behind Burfield. A vehicle driven by Christopher Billotte of St. Marys was traveling north.
Both Burfield and Billotte were negotiating a curve in the road. Burfield lost control of her vehicle on the icy/slushy road and traveled into the path of Billotte.
According to police the vehicles collided head-on.
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Sewage Enforcement Reimbursement Exhausted Remainder of 08-09 Fiscal Year
HARRISBURG – High demand has exhausted this year’s fund to reimburse municipal sewage enforcement agencies for part of the cost of on-lot sewage permitting and enforcement, forcing the Department of Environmental Protection to halt payments.
The Pennsylvania Sewage Facilities Act, commonly known as Act 537, authorizes DEP to reimburse local government agencies up to 85 percent of the annual local cost incurred in ensuring that new and repaired on-lot systems are properly sited, designed, permitted and inspected.
“Since the passage of Act 537 in 1966, DEP has reimbursed a portion of the local cost of permitting and inspecting on-lot sewage systems as an enticement to municipalities to establish and operate local sewage enforcement agencies as required under the law,” Environmental Protection acting Secretary John Hanger said. “Many local agencies are incurring higher costs now and consequently, are submitting for increased reimbursements, which has drawn down the available funding and reserve funds. We will not be able to resume these reimbursements until funds are made available under the next fiscal year’s state budget.
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Rape Suspect Taken into Custody
PORT MATILDA – The Philipsburg-based State Police reported that a 41-year-old Port Matilda man who was accused of rape and other sex crimes has been taken into custody.
In an update, police said that Richard Lou Loner, 41 of Port Matilda, was located and taken into custody without incident. Police said that he has been placed in the Centre County Jail.
According to the initial report, charges were filed against Loner through Magisterial District Judge Allen Sinclair’s office and a warrant was issued.
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Deer Killed at Turkey Hill Whitetails
OLANTA – The Clearfield-based State Police reported that a domesticated whitetail deer was shot at the Turkey Hill Whitetails in Olanta.
According to the report, police said that sometime between 7 a.m. Feb. 7 and 7 a.m. Tuesday, a person(s) shot and killed a deer that was valued at approximately $10,000 before fleeing the scene.
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DuBois PSP Reports Accidental Shooting
WINSLOW TOWNSHIP – After target shooting with a .22 caliber handgun behind his residence, the DuBois-based State Police reported that a 39-year-old Sykesville man accidently shot himself on Tuesday afternoon.
According to the report, Parris Stefanow, 39 of Sykesville, didn’t secure the weapon prior to placing it in his front right pocket. Police said that the weapon discharged and struck him in the right leg below the knee.
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CRC Visioning Meeting Unveils Draft for ‘Downtown Clearfield Vision’
CLEARFIELD – “We believe that form follows function,” said Bill Fontana, the speaker at the Clearfield Revitalization Corporation’s vision meeting, at the end of the presentation. “If your kid wants to be a baseball player, and you buy him a football uniform it just doesn’t work..”
The analogy was explained to represent the purpose of the meeting that gathered business owners and citizens of Clearfield had just sat through in the progress towards the Main Street Program. There were numerous things that could be done to the community. Without knowing what the community wants will allow for constructive measures to be taken.
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CASD Discusses Feasibility Study
CLEARFIELD – After Monday night’s special meeting, the Clearfield Area School District Board of Directors decided that they cannot rush a decision regarding its feasibility study.
“I think that we’re pretty much on the same page,” superintendent Dr. Richard C. Makin said, adding that the district’s options should be further explored.
Resident Dr. Michael Spencer questioned the board about the feasibility study advisory committee’s recommendation to the district.
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