NOW YOU KNOW
<p>• The Montour County Planning Commission will meet Jan. 16 at 5:30 p.m. at 112 Woodbine Lane.
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Press Enterprise
WHAT’S HAPPENING
<p>WINTER WALK: 1:30-3 p.m., Susquehanna Energy Information Center, PPL’s Riverlands, Rt. 11, north of Berwick.
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Around the World
<p>Police shoot alleged gunman
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Around the State
<p>Trial to start in bar shooting
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HISTORY LESSON
<p>1794: President George Washington approved a measure adding two stars and two stripes to the American flag, following the admission of Vermont and Kentucky to the Union.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
<p>• Actor Julian Morris, 30.
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<p>• Actor Orlando Bloom, 36.
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<p>• Actress Nicole Eggert, 41.
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Barratt keeps Bloom Fair post
Police/parking chief defeats challenger by only 104 votes
<p>BLOOMSBURG — Bill Barratt won another three-year term as the Bloomsburg Fair’s director of police and parking Saturday despite his claims of detractors working to oust him.
‘Call’ to comfort
Minister makes trip to Newtown from Catawissa after massacre
<p>CATAWISSA —Pastor Gretchen Johanson stood in the square in Newtown, Connecticut, just three days after 20 elementary students were gunned down in their school nearby, and waited.
Olive Garden opening is near
Buckhorn eatery needs to hire 180
<p>BUCKHORN — Fans of the Olive Garden won’t have to wait much longer.
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Crash KOs railroad-signal pole
Police: SUV driver lucky to survive wreck near Catawissa
<p>MONTOUR TWP. — A Bloomsburg-based photographer’s careening car sheered two stop signs and toppled a railroad-crossing pole at the Catawissa river bridge early Saturday, police say.