I received an email from Pennswoods.net yesterday with a new dial-up connection number with an 814-320 prefix. I called Verizon to make sure it's a local call for Roulette and was told it was not, BUT after pressing them to look a little deeper, I was then told it is a local call. Apparently it's a new pre-fix for Coudersport. So maybe this will save some of you Roulette customers a phone call to Verizon.

Republished from the Oct. 16 Tri-County Sunday...

By ALEX DAVIS
Tri-County Sunday

Present Adelphia customers in Emporium, Coudersport, Port Allegany, Austin and Routlette will become Zito Media subscribers when a transition takes place during the early morning hours Monday.

Cable television and Internet access, which includes e-mail and personal Web space, are the services involved in the switchover.

Cable television channels will be unchanged for now. Zito Media will provide customers with 65 channels as part of the classic package and over 100 channels for the digital package. They will also offer high-definition television which makes images clearer on specialized high-definition capable television sets.

Zito Media President James Rigas said that he plans to make Video-On-Demand available to subscribers. With this feature, they can have over 1 ,200 hours of programming where they can fast forward, rewind and pause television shows. He envisions customers using Internet-based telephony (VoIP) if they wish.

Cable customers in Coudersport and Port Allegany will have a new community- based channel in a few weeks. Emporium has its own channel for placing non-profit organizational events, but cannot show videotapes of local events. Zito Media plans on working with school districts to provide tape recording that can be shown on the channels.

"(We) want to provide as much local content as we can," Rigas said.

High -speed Internet connections will be offered in two packages: standard and premium. Zito Media is keeping the same services that Adelphia has supplied to customers, but with some improvements.The company is going to make the upstream and downstream Internet speeds 50 percent faster within 30 days of the transition.

Subscribers who use the free Web site hosting service with Adelphia will notice two changes: Zito Media plans on expanding the current storage offering of 10 megabytes to 30 megabytes. It also will allow users to change what their Web site address.

E-mail users will have to be proactive in implementing their new e-mail address. They have been told to amend their e-mail current address by replacing the adelphia.net domain name with the zitomedia.net domain name. Users were issued computer generated passwords to log-in to their e-mail accounts last week. According to an update from Zito Media, users must log-in in to their Zito Media accounts by Oct. 27.

There's 6,000 Adelphia television subscribers and 2,000 Internet users in Emporium, Coudersport, Port Allegany, Austin and Routlette that will be taken over by Zito Media. Emporium has 1,800 users in both categories.

Zito Media will reopen the Adephia office in Emporium and use the location for cable modem and remote control pick-ups. It will be operated three to four hours a day.

Additional information about Zito Media can be obtained by sending postal mail to: 611 Vader Hill Road in Coudersport, PA 16915 or by logging on to their Web site at: www.zitomedia.net.

The Cameron High School Marching Band took home their 15 consecutive first place award from the Flaming Foilage festival held Saturday in Renovo. They played: Cheeroke, Washington Post and What I Like About You. The 110-student band is under the direction of Dan Sensenig and drum major Brandon McCulla.

Pennsylvania State police in Kane are reporting an incident of DUI last
night. On routine patrol, troopers found a vehicle traveling north on State
Route 646 at a slow speed of less then five-Miles Per Hour. Upon a traffic
stop troopers determined Christine Jacoby of Smethport to be intoxicated and
transported her to the Kane Hospital for a Blood Alcohol test. The incident
is still under investigation.

Governor Ed Rendell has stood in support of a proposed 4 lane highway that
could have a huge economic impact on the county.

Rendell sent a letter to McKean County Commissioner John Egbert to proclaim
his support for the proposed Continental 1 Highway.

The project would connect Florida to Canada, running along Route 219 when it
comes through the Bradford area.

A Bradford man was killed Sunday morning in a crash on South Kendall Avenue.
Foster Township Police report that 32-year-old Michael Wick left the roadway
and struck a utility pole. Wick was removed from the vehicle and taken to
BRMC, where he was pronounced dead.

Rew Volunteer Fire Department and Bradford City Ambulance assisted police at
the scene.
The accident is still under investigation.

A Duke Center man called state police to report damage to a bus window.

The bus was damaged as it was parked on Edison Street in Eldred over the
weekend.

Charges are pending against an Emporium man after he fell asleep at the
wheel while driving in Emporium Saturday morning. 20-year-old Michael Spaeth
drifted across the roadway, and struck a curb.

Neither Spaeth nor his passenger was injured in the crash.

A Norwich Township camp was reportedly ransacked last week. Ruth Wharton
called police to say a series of camps on Combs Creek Road has been
burglarized and damaged.
Police are investigating.

Former Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor Bill Scranton is scheduled to make
an announcement tonight.

The politician has been vocal about his interest in running for governor.

The Official campaign announcement will be tonight at 6 in Scranton, PA.

A Car full was involved in a crash in Liberty Township Saturday night. State
Police report Richard Bachman of Port Allegany was traveling along Route 155
at the intersection of Birch Run when he drove through a yard and struck a
tree.

Passengers Gordon Gaines and Ed Orlowski received minor injuries in the
crash, and were taken to Bradford Regional Medical Center.

Bachman and passenger Chad Setzer refused treatment.
Charges against Bachman are pending.

A St. Mary's man was arrested in Sergeant Township along Route 219. Police
say 26-year-old Jeremiah Dilley was in possession of several cartons of
unstamped cigarettes, violating the Pennsylvania tax law. Dilley was charged
after the Saturday incident.

A Port Allegany woman was seriously injured when she was ejected from her
Ford Explorer. 20-year-old Jessica Trimm struck a bridge at the intersection
of Combs Creek and Skinner Creek Roads in Liberty Township.

Police say Trimm was not wearing her seatbelt.

A Smethport teen is missing today after he disappeared Friday afternoon.

Police say 14-year-old Jonathan Howes was last seen leaving Smethport High
Friday Afternoon.
Anyone with information is asked to contact State Police in Kane.

An 800-dollar chain saw was stolen from a truck parked near Champlin Hill
Road in Annin Township last week.

40-year-old Richard Andrus of Emporium reported someone stole his Stihl
Chain Saw as he was parked on Pine Grove Road Thursday.

Fifteen cherry logs are missing from a plot of land in Sergeant Township.
The State Police report lists the victim as Industrial Timber and Lumber
Company of Endeavor PA.

The logs, worth 25 hundred dollars, were stolen from a log landing on the
Shawmut Grade.