Stories for March 2004
Stories for Wednesday, March 31
Graduate Students Rally To Form Union
They're underpaid and over worked. That's why grad students at one area university continue to talk about unionizing. The main issue for many graduate teaching assistants at Penn State is better health care benefits. They rallied today on the steps of old main. The grads say they put in long ...
Two Sheriff's Deputies Shot To Death
Two sheriff's deputies were killed Wednesday morning while serving a warrant to a convicted felon who was well known to police, officials said. Deputies Michael VanKuren and Christopher M. Burgert, were shot in the driveway of a junkyard in rural north-central Pennsylvania, just miles from the New York border, Bradford ...
PA Bus Tour
Members of Governor Rendell's cabinent made their way through the area today promoting the growing greener initiative. The secretaries of transportation and natural resources stressed that Johnstown is doing a good job of fixing up its downtown and using old mills for economic stability. The growing greener program was started ...
Foreign Trade Zone
The success of the foreign trade zone project in Jefferson county is drawing attention from Cambria County commissioners who are starting to investigate if that's something Cambria County could benefit from too. With millions of dollars to be gained by adding foreign trade, this is something that appeals to officials, ...
Local Police Department Closes
The retirement of a Centre County police officer leaves a town with no police department. When Leonard Bloom joined the force in Philipsburg there were nine officers on staff. He's the last one remaining. Like many small towns in Central Pennsylvania, finding the funds to support a local police force ...
Constable Detained
A local law enforcement official says he was recently held against his will in a county prison and it was prison administrators who wouldn't let him leave. This is unusual on two counts, one you're talking about a police officer or law enforcement personnel in a situation with a jail ...
Johnstown Cleanup
Spring is generally a time for cleaning up and that's exactly what Johnstown officials hope to accomplish with a free trash and debris pickup program in the downtown area. This is the second year for the program. Two days each week city public works employees will travel around the downtown ...
Tractor Trailer Dangles Over River
A tractor-trailer careened off Mill Street Bridge in Tarentum Wednesday morning and was left dangling over a creek. Because of the steepness of the ravine, firefighters had to rappel down to the truck's cab. A few minutes later, after climbing on top of the rig firefighters were able to secure ...
Stories for Monday, March 29
Human Remains Found In Bedford County
State Police have scheduled a news conference later this morning in Bedford to report on the discovery of human remains in West Providence Township, which they say could be tied to a missing woman. That woman is Holly Notestine. She is from Bedford County and has been missing for 3 ...
Stories for Friday, March 26
Cambria County Airport A Job Magnet ?
The Johnstown-Cambria County Airport could be a magnet for new jobs. The Cambria County Commissioners met with Dr. Ted Davi to discuss foreign trade zones. That's where foreign companies send work to the United State - where it is completed - and then, sent back to that country with little ...
ATV Parks
It's a recreational event that continues to become more and more popular. Today, ATV and snowmobile riders got some good news. More than two million dollars in grants have been awarded to develop or improve riding opportunities for the state's reigstered riders. The largest grant from the state's department of ...
ATV Parks
On this warm spring day, Harrisburg has come up with cold cash in an attempt to get all terrain vehicles off private property and out of state forests. The department of conservation and natural resources is in our region today, handing out over two million dollars to develop a site ...
Stories for Thursday, March 25
Highway Fallout
How do we get it back on track? Thats the question being asked in the wake of Penndot's stunning announcement earlier this week about dropping plans for a major area highway project. Penndot says they simply don't have the money for a new road way in eastern Centre County, but ...
Richland Development
There's movement on a couple of long awaited Johnstown projects. Construction crews have started work on the new Super Wal-mart Center in Richland Township. Workers are putting in drainage lines and digging footers for the store on the old Richland Mall site. About a mile away workers are putting up ...
Route 56 Highway Project
It may look like just statistics to you, but for one area mom killing the Route 56 highway project is personal. Vicki Shank Bretz went door to door in 1998 collecting signatures from her neighbors to try and get this bypass constructed. It's because her son was killed in a ...
Highway Projects Cut
Your tax dollars are being spent, but on what? When it comes to road construction unfortunately millions have already been spent on studies of two high profile area projects that have been axed because of funding shortages. In Cambria County the proposed Route 56 bypass has cost 2.9 million dollars ...
Incline Re-opens
A sure sign that spring is here. The Cambria County transit authority announced this morning that Johnstown's inclined plane will reopen one week from today, Thursday April first. The incline will operate seven days a week between the hours of noon and 6 pm. Although special extended hours will be ...
Bill Brown
Bill Brown has been an anchor for Channel Six News at Noon since 1984 and has anchored WJAC-TV's early morning news broadcasts since their inception in 1985. Bill has seen "News at Sunrise" grow from a 30-minute newscast beginning at 6:30 AM, to today's two-hour broadcast each weekday between 5-7AM. ...
Tim Rigby
Tim began his career with WJAC-TV in November, 1981 as a reporter and weekend sports anchor. Shortly after that, he began anchoring the 11 pm Sports, Monday through Friday. In April of 1987, he took over the anchoring duties on the 6 pm Sports segments as well. In April of ...
Stories for Wednesday, March 24
Route 322 And 122
PennDot says it doesn't have the money for a new highway cooridor in Centre County. It's one of the heaviest traveled roads and according to the people that use it every day and live off of the road, it's one of the most dangerous. The plan was to upgrade the ...
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