WILLIAMSPORT MAN ARRESTED FOR DRIVING STOLEN CAR
A Williamsport man is in custody after he was seen driving a stolen car last week. According to the Sun Gazette, police saw 29 year old Rahnell Cotton driving a stolen Kia Soul Thursday on Second Avenue, and recognized the car that had been stolen previously from a property at the 1100 block of Park Avenue. Once Cotton parked the car in front of his residence, he was arrested without incident. He told police that he found the keys in the car before he took it. He’s in Lycoming County Prison in lieu of 15 thousand dollars bail.
DISABLED MAN TO BE CHARGED WITH HOMICIDE BY DUI
A young man from Potter County is facing homicide by vehicle charges just over a year after his alleged DUI caused a crash that killed a 16 year-old girl from Harrison Valley, paralyzed him, and injured another teen near the 100 block of Hickox Road in Genessee Township. According to North Central PA dot com, witnesses say Isaiah Ryan Bogsch, was drunk and driving at a high rate of speed after a bonfire October 1st 2023, and in the overnight hours went off the roadway, impacting trees and an outbuilding in the area with his two passengers in the front seat. Bogsch was extricated from his GMC Sierra and treated at UR Jones Memorial Hospital in Wellsville, NY where he was found to be paralyzed from the chest down from the crash. Charges have just recently been filed and Bogsch is awaiting his preliminary hearing.
SALVATION ARMY SEEKING DONORS FOR FESTIVAL OF TREES
Applications are being accepted by sponsors and civic groups who want to decorate a tree for the Salvation Army’s 22nd annual Festival of Trees in Williamsport. According to the Salvation Army, the trees will be decorated by local organizations which will include at least 200 dollars-worth of incentives. The public will vote for their favorite for a dollar per vote and then the trees will be auctioned off December 13th at the County Building at 33 W. Third Street in Williamsport. Applications to decorate a tree will be accepted through November 15th. Proceeds benefit the programs managed by the Salvation Army. Get an application by emailing Laura.templeton@use.salvationarmy.org
VETERANS DISPLAY IN WATSONTOWN
The Watsontown Area Historical Museum opened a special veteran’s salute display this week to honor all the men and women who have served in our US Armed Forces. The museum will feature the varied military uniforms in their collection, and an array of historical photographs some 260 of them complied for a slide show. The military display will be available to see through the end of November.
MAN FACING KIDNAPPING CHARGES HELD FOR COURT
A city man who police say along with another man, kidnapped a female acquaintance September 17th in the Newberry neighborhood, was in court Friday where a judge determined there was sufficient evidence for a trial. According to the Sun Gazette, all charges against 39 year old Tyree Moy, who is representing himself, will be held for court. The victim testified that Moy, with whoM she was acquainted, and another man forced her to drive and then stop in Wildwood Cemetery. After a struggle, the suspects stole the woman’s car, cell phone and a bank deposit bag that she had in the vehicle. Moy will face charges of kidnapping, robbery, theft, receiving stolen property, false imprisonment and simple assault. He is in Lycoming County Prison on no bail.
ATV THEFT LEADS TO ARREST
Coal Township police have arrested a 17 year old and two others in connection with an incident involving an ATV allegedly stolen from Williamsport. Police say, 17 year old Edison Alexander Batista-Delgado, of Reading was operating the ATV without lights east on Route 54 in Coal Township while following a black Jeep Grand Cherokee and was pursued by police before he fell and the Jeep continued east. Police discovered the VIN of the ATV matched the one confirmed in the original theft. Batista-Delgado, the driver of the Jeep, 27 year old Dayshawn Willis, and passenger, 26 year old Henry Velazquez, were each charged with multiple felony theft charges were detained. Batista-Delgado’s bail was set at 10 thousand dollars.
BURN BAN STILL IN PLACE
Even with the rain that we’ve received in the past 24 hours, the burn ban is still in effect in the city of Williamsport and Old Lycoming Township, as well as a campfire ban on State Game lands and in State Parks. According to city fire officials, they have enacted the burn ban through Nov. 20, and they will review the dry conditions and consider whether to lift the ban after that. Williamsport Bureau of Fire Chief Sam Aungst said he doesn’t think the recent precipitation was enough to make an impact that will negate the burn ban at this time.
BOOK WALK COMING TO COUNTY AFTER FCP GRANT
A book walk is set to be installed at Trout Run park, thanks to a grant from the First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania’s Williamsport Lycoming Competitive Grant Cycle, for the Lycoming County Library System. According to North Central PA dot com, the $11,023 grant will provide materials and installation of a book walk that is an innovative literacy initiative that displays an illustrated children’s book page-by-page along a walking path. James V. Brown Library is also set to install a book walk in Young’s Woods Park in Williamsport. The program at the park at 10294 Lycoming Creek Road is in place to promote family reading, community engagement, and outdoor recreation.
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Gerry Faust, Notre Dame football coach for five seasons in the early 1980s, died Monday. He was 89.
Bracketed by national championship coaches in Dan Devine and Lou Holtz, the Faust era at Notre Dame (1981-85) was marked by disappointment. Hired at age 45 after a highly successful run at Cincinnati’s Archbishop Moeller High School, Faust went 30-26-1 (.535) during his Irish tenure.
His first and final teams went 5-6, the first losing seasons for Notre Dame since 1963, but in between the Irish managed winning records and a pair of lesser bowl trips. They scored a 19-18 upset of 13th-ranked Boston College and future Heisman Trophy winner Doug Flutie in the 1983 Liberty Bowl but lost the following year to 10th-ranked Southern Methodist (27-20) in the Aloha Bowl. Faust died on the same day as former USC football coach John Robinson, also 89. Faust went 0-2 against Robinson’s USC teams, losing one-score games in 1981 (14-7) and 1982 (17-13).
