SUNBURY — A push for team spirit, just in time for the beginning of football season, was halted by what appears to have been someone with a razor blade who cut several hundred decorative ribbons from a railing on the Edison Bridge.
The vandalism occurred between Wednesday night and Thursday morning.
“It was disheartening to say the least,” said Jill Pope, of Northumberland, who initiated the project and got parents, students and cheerleaders together to decorate the bridge Wednesday night with ribbons in Shikellamy school colors. Pope’s son is the quarterback on the Shikellamy High School football team.
Ten to 20 people spent a combined 50 hours tying on three-foot-long ribbons of navy blue, red and white. Each ribbon was double knotted and pulled tight.
Altogether, they covered the bridge’s railing with 3,000 square feet of ribbon.
They finished decorating at 7:30 p.m.
“We were trying to get the community really engulfed,” Pope said, “trying to get team spirit.”
The next day, many of the ribbons were found on the ground in pieces.
Pope said she is unsure of who would cause such destruction, whether it could be someone local or from a neighboring school district.
“You just really don’t know,” she said.
Her husband was on the bridge Thursday, trying to put more ribbon back up. It was costly to buy more, she said, and time consuming to tie them on again. Originally, one roll of ribbon was donated, and the parents bought the rest.
News
Vandals cut ribbons from Edison Bridge railing
- News
-
-
Masked robber hits McClure bank
McCLURE — Police said a man with a handgun entered the MCS bank at 1 E. Specht St. just after 9 a.m., Tuesday and demanded money from a teller before making off with an undisclosed amount of cash.
-
Union County deputy excels at academy
LEWISBURG — Feel safer, Union County: A deputy sheriff received the Michael VanKuren Memorial Award for Defensive Tactics during his recent graduation from the Pennsylvania Deputy Sheriff’s Academy.
-
Shoch too good to lose, Point supervisors say
NORTHUMBERLAND — Point Township Supervisors Randy Yoxheimer and Montie Peters credit attorney Rick Shoch with helping them weather difficult years as they fended off a slew of lawsuits from developers, disgruntled former employees and residents.
-
Two firemen face trial in arsons
DANVILLE — A firefighter said “it kind of hit me hard” after two fellow firemen were charged with setting fires in Montour and Northumberland counties and calling in false alarms in Union County.
-
Lewisburg high school back on drawing board
LEWISBURG — The Lewisburg Area School District is moving forward with a flexible version of its master facilities plan with the possibility that construction, including a new Lewisburg Area High School, could begin as soon as 2015 or as late as 2018.
-
Storms knock out power to more than 700 this afternoon
SUNBURY - More than 700 homes and businesses lost electrical service this afternoon when a line of heavy thunderstorms rolled through the region.
-
Masked gunman robs McClure bank
McCLURE - Police said a man displaying a handgun entered the MCS bank in Mcclure Borough just after 9 a.m., Tuesday and demanded money from a teller before making off with an undisclosed amount of cash.
-
'To Do': Carnival
MILTON -The Lions Carnival held from 6 to 9 p.m. May 30 at Brown Avenue Park.
-
Electronic fingerprinting soon needed to provide long-term elder care
HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Department of Aging will soon begin using an electronic fingerprinting process to screen people applying to work in a long-term care facility or home health care agency.
-
Buggy driver falls asleep in Lancaster County; collides with bus
NEW PROVIDENCE — Pennsylvania State Police say the 15-year-old driver of a horse and buggy fell asleep at the reins and collided with a school bus.
-
17-year-old New Columbia boy in critical condition after Sunday crash
WATSONTOWN -- State police said a 17-year-old New Columbia boy is in the hospital in critical condition after the car he was driving crossed the center line on Route 405 and slammed into an oncoming car.
-
60 and Counting
The singer John Prine wrote these lines in a song titled ‘The Late John Garfield Blues: “An old man sleeps with his conscience at night. Young kids sleep with their dreams.”
- More News Headlines
-
