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Smoke on the water:
Forest fire affects air quality by Ruth Isenberg
Over 4,300 acres burned last week when brush fires spread rapidly in the area, a result of higher than normal temperatures, windy conditions, and a lack of moisture in ground materials. Emergency management coordinator Chris Zwiebel provided the photos at left that show smoke hovering over Penn Lake. He said that in his discussions with forestry, the pictures show a thermal inversion condition that ‘captured’ the smoke generated at Crystal Lake and followed Wrights Creek under the thermal layer onto the cool water of Penn Lake. Photos taken 30 minutes See FOREST FIRE, page 5
EAST SIDE MAYOR ERIC SIGLIN swears in Elizabeth Berger to a seat on borough council, with council member Sharon Mrozinski seated in foreground.
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Liz Berger is back on East Side council by Ruth Isenberg East Side Borough Council accepted the resignation of Helen Stockinger at the April 13 council meeting, held in the John Murphy
room of the White Haven Area Community Library. Stockinger had submitted See EAST SIDE, page 5