25 Years Ago

Herald of Jan. 16, 1997

Charles R. Stump was named Assistant Police Chief in Roaring Spring after a group of citizens and the mayor requested that Stump be given the assistant title even though the council’s personnel chair recommended that he be appointed as a full-time patrolman.

A group of Freedom Township residents interested in the possibility of forming a separate township police department set up a meeting with the public at the Freedom Township Firehall.

A Saxton man, Raphael A. Hiquet, 29, was killed in an accident on Rt. 36 along Catfish Ridge. The driver of the other car, a Martinsb...