Deadly Weekend On Area Roadways

It was a deadly weekend on roadways across the area.  The first crash occurred Saturday night around 8 o’clock on Little Keen Road in Clinton Township.  Police say a truck was going at an apparent high rate of speed when the driver lost control and struck a tree.  Nineteen year-old Jamie Lynady, forty-six year-old Mark Slick and forty-seven year-old Timothy Duffy, all of Carbondale, were all thrown from the truck.  Lynady was taken to Wayne Memorial Hospital were he was pronounced dead.  Slick and  Duffy were flown to CMC.  No word on their conditions or who was driving the truck.  The second crash occurred around the same time in Dingman Township.  Forty-nine year-old Thomas Gokay of Milford was traveling on Gold Key Road in Gold Key Estates on an ATV when he lost control and struck a stone wall.  Gokay was thrown from the quad.  He was pronounced dead at the scene.  Gokay was not wearing a helmet.  Anyone who witnessed the crash is asked to contact State Police at Blooming Grove.   

The third crash took place on Route 106 in Fell Township early Sunday morning.  Police say twenty-two year-old Joseph Warrick of Greenfield Township and twenty-one year-old Danielle Hess of Simpson were riding a motorcycle when they collided head-on with a truck being driven by fifty-four year-old Albert Morgan of Carbondale.  Police say both vehicles crossed the centerline.  Warrick and Hess were both pronounced dead at the scene.  Morgan was not injured.  A fourth crash in Great Bend, Susquehanna County, also claimed the lives of a Windsor, NY man and an unidentified twenty-four year-old man late Saturday night.

 151st Harford Fair Opens Today 

The 151^st Harford Fair opens today and continues through Saturday.  Many events are scheduled to take place this year, including old fashioned games like women’s skillet throwing contest, men’s hay bail throwing contest, kids greased pole contest and new this year, outhouse races.   

A parade will also be held Wednesday at 4.  Over 7,500 entries have been received for the fair’s various departments.  Reynolds says the fair usually has an attendance of between 65,000 and 70,000 each year.  The fair is located off the Harford Exit, Exit 217 on Interstate 81.  For more info, you can go to www.harfordfair.com