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This Week's Headline News

Small bridge collapses near Millersburg
By Louise Troutman and Duane Good

Heavy rains early last week may have caused the collapse of a 120 year-old vehicular bridge above railway tracks one mile north of Millersburg.

The tracks were out of use for about 10 hours after the Jan. 25 incident.

The Sentinel had no confirmation of an exact cause of the collapse as of press time. However, a source familiar with the incident said it appears that heavy rains during the early morning of Jan. 25 undermined the stonework beneath the bridge.

The bridge - which according to sources was built around 1890 - carried traffic to the farm of John and Shirley Witmer.

Shirley Witmer told the Sentinel that she did not hear the collapse but that she believes it occurred around 5 p.m. Jan. 25.

The Witmers called "911," and emergency management personnel contacted Norfolk Southern, the railroad company that owns and maintains the tracks.

According to Shirley Witmer, railroad workers were at the scene all night Jan. 25 into Jan. 26.

The workers also recovered the bridge and moved it adjacent to the tracks a few hundred feet south.

There was no serious damage to the tracks. Railway service was restored at about 3:30 a.m. Jan. 26, according to Rudy Husband, a spokesman for Norfolk Southern.

The Sentinel was not able to get confirmation prior to press time Feb. 1 as to whether the bridge will be replaced and, if so, in what time frame.


Work to begin on upgrades
to area park

MILLERSBURG - All of the necessary funding is in place to move forward on a hiking/biking pathway and other additions to the borough's Riverfront Park.

Aided by more than $500,000 in grants from the state and from Dauphin County, the project will enter the construction design phase in February.

Click here for complete details.


Early morning crash near Halifax
kills Dillsburg man

HALIFAX TWP. - Two Dillsburg residents were injured, one fatally, in an early morning vehicle crash Jan. 31 on Route 147, about half a mile north of Halifax.

The investigation is continuing, but speed and alcohol "are factors in the crash," state police at Lykens said.

Corey Strahosky, 18, was pronounced dead at the scene of the 3:57 a.m. crash, police said. The cause of death was "head trauma," according to the Dauphin County Coroner's Office.

Strahosky was a passenger in a 1990 Geo Prizm driven by Preston Evans, 28, also of Dillsburg, according to police.

Evans was ejected from the vehicle and was found lying in a field. He was flown to Hershey Medical Center. Evans was listed in "fair" condition as of press time Feb. 1.

Police said Evans was driving south, toward Halifax, when for unknown reasons he lost control of the car. The car crossed into the opposite lane, then the rear of the vehicle struck a tree. At this point, Evans was ejected, police said.

The car then traveled back across both lanes and the rear of the vehicle struck a telephone pole, according to police.

Strahosky was wearing a seatbelt. It is not known if Evans was wearing a seatbelt as well, police said.

Route 147 between Halifax and Millersburg was closed for several hours after the crash; northbound traffic was re-routed onto Route 225 to Elizabethville, then onto Route 209 to Millersburg.


Also in this week's
Upper Dauphin Sentinel
:

Local residents involved in getting aid to Haiti -  Residents of the Sentinel's coverage area are actively involved in getting aid to the earthquake victims in Haiti.
Gunshot was fired in quarrel, police say -
A borough woman allegedly fired a handgun toward a man during a domestic incident last week, police said.

(And much more in this week's Sentinel)


Addresses of area
service men listed

The Upper Dauphin Sentinel is accepting the names and addresses of area residents who currently serve with the U.S. Armed Forces in the Middle East.

The following names and addresses are current as of press time for this week's issue. SPC Brett Weaver and SGT Daniel Miller have returned from overseas. Yohann Weaver has been added.
 

SGT Holly N. Murray
HSC 628th ASB
Taskforce Keystone
APO AE 09331 

SPC Brown Natasha M.
HSC 628th ASB
Taskforce Keystone
APO AE 09331 

SGT Earl Rexroth III
HSC 628th ASB
Taskforce Keystone
APO AE 09351 

PFC Fuhrman, Nathan M.
Co. E 2/104th GSAB
COB ADDER T-1
APO AE 09331 

Kelly Bower
C Co 710 BSB
FOB Shank
APO AE 09364 

SPC Graeff, Brian
A Co 2-112th IN 56th SBCT
Unit 43007
Camp Liberty
APO AE 09344

 

PFC Campbell, Nathan M.
2nd CEB MA CO DET B
UNIT 73593
FPO AE 09510-3593

Dustin Shultz
A Co. 3rd BSTB
3 BCT, 10th Mt. Div.
FOB SHANK
APO AE 09354

CPT Raelean Fuhrman Finch
HHC 508th BSTB KAF
APO AE 09355 

SPC Jonathan Rummel
Task Force Keystone
APO AE 09331 

Yohann Weaver
831st
APO AE 09354 

Mark H. Masemer/MA2
MSRON 4/CTG 56.7
PSC 901 SHED 57 PLE
FPO AE 09837

 

Additional names and a-addresses will be published as they are received and as space permits. Photos will be published if submitted. Information on area residents awaiting deployment also will be published.

This information can be:

  • faxed to the Sentinel at 692-2420;

  • e-mailed to dgood@sentinelnow.com  or

  • brought to the Sentinel office at 510 Union St., Millersburg.

For questions, address corrections or more information, call 692-4737, extension 117.
 

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