THE FORMER MCKEAN COUNTY LANDFILL IN HUTCHINS-NEAR MOUNT JEWETT-IS NOW OPERATING UNDER FEDERAL BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION.  RUSTICK LLC BOUGHT THE FACILITY FROM THE COUNTY FIVE YEARS AGO…AND THE LAST I KNEW, THE COMPANY STILL OWED THE COUNTY MONEY FROM THE PURCHASE—MAYBE AS MUCH AS A HALF-MILLION DOLLARS.  RUSTICK IS NOW LOOKING FOR A BUYER FOR THE FACILITY. 

DRUG BUST IN SMETHPORT.  THE MCKEAN COUNTY DRUG TASK FORCE REPORTS 46 MARIJUANA PLANTS AND PARAPHENALIA WERE SEIZED WEDNESDAY NIGHT FROM A RESIDENCE AT 112 EAST KING STREET.  23 YEAR OLD JOSEPH YEHL AND 22 YEAR OLD KATRINA HOLDEN BOTH FACE CHARGES IN THE CASE.  THE COUPLE’S FOUR YEAR OLD AND FIVE MONTH OLD ALSO LIVED IN THE HOUSE. 

THE PROSECUTION AND DEFENSE CONTINUE TO WORK ON THE CASE AFTER A PAIR OF ACCUSED MURDERERS WERE IN MCKEAN COUNTY COURT IN SMETHPORT LAST WEEK.  30 YEAR OLD THOMAS PAUL HAGGIE AND 20 YEAR OLD GREGGORY THEOBALD BOTH FACE THE DEATH PENALTY IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEATH OF 21 YEAR OLD MEGAN KONOPKA AND HER UNBORN CHILD LAST SEPTEMBER AT THE RIDDELL HOUSE IN BRADFORD.  ON THURSDAY, JUDGE JOHN PAVLOCK SET A STATUS CONFERENCE FOR HAGGIE FOR 45 DAYS FROM NOW…AND FOR THEOBALD FOR 30 DAYS FROM NOW. 

3D IS COMING TO BRADFORD.  THE MAIN STREET MOVIEHOUSE, OWNED BY THE DOWNTOWN BRADFORD REVITALIZATION CORPORATION AND MANAGED BY DIPSON MANAGEMENT, IS GETTING AN $82-THOUSAND DOLLAR GRANT TO INSTALL TWO NEW MOVIE SCREENS AND A 3D DIGITAL PROJECTOR. 

A BIG DONATION TO THE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS IN OLEAN.  RETIRED DRESSER INDUSTRIES CEO JACK MURPHY IS DONATING $160-THOUSAND DOLLARS TO ARCHBISHOP WALSH ACADEMY AND SOUTHERN TIER CATHOLIC SCHOOL ACCORDING TO SCHOOL OFFICIALS. 

GRADUATION FOR THE CATTARAUGUS COUNTY CAMPUS OF JAMESTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FRIDAY NIGHT.  THE EVENT HONORING 562 SPRING 2010 GRADUATES WAS HELD AT THE OLEAN YMCA. 

IN CATTARAUGUS COUNTY, IT WAS A COLD CASE FOR A LONG TIME…NOW THERE’S BEEN ANOTHER ARREST IN THE 1994 KILLING OF ANDIE GASPAR.  LAST WEEK, GASPAR’S WIDOW, 47 YEAR OLD CHERYL GASPAR OF YORKSHIRE, WAS CHARGED WITH SECOND DEGREE MURDER.  AROUND FIVE O’CLOCK FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 56 YEAR OLD RANDALL KNIGHT OF AKRON, OHIO, WAS ARRESTED AND FACES MURDER-FOR-HIRE CHARGES.  BACK IN 1995, KNIGHT WAS ACQUITTED OF MURDER CHARGES IN THE CASE.  KNIGHT AND CHERYL GASPAR WERE ALLEGEDLY ROMANTICALLY INVOLVED.   

FOUR CORNERS:

 NO INJURIES IN A FRIDAY NIGHT ACCIDENT ON ROUTE 66 AT THE TOP OF JAMES CITY HILL.  RIDGWAY STATE POLICE REPORT 18 YEAR OLD JORDAN BECKWITH OF DUKE CENTER IN MCKEAN COUNTY LEFT THE ROADWAY AROUND ELEVEN O’CLOCK FRIDAY NIGHT…HITTING A BOULDER. 

TWO KANE RESIDENTS ARE EACH JAILED IN LIEU OF TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS BAIL FOLLOWING A THURSDAY NIGHT BURGLARY.  KANE BOROUGH POLICE ARRESTED 28 YEAR OLD RYAN “HOLLYWOOD” FORSYTHE AND 18 YEAR OLD CASSONDRA SYNDER IN CONNECTION WITH THE TAKING OF A JEWELRY BOX AT A RESIDENCE AT 400 CHASE STREET IN KANE.