GRAHAMSVILLE - A seven-year-old Youngsville boy was struck and killed by a motor vehicle at the Grahamsville Little Worlds Fair on Saturday evening.

According to Lt. Roland Ward of the Sullivan County Sheriff's Department, Justin Dalanzo ran between two carnival rides onto a dirt service road behind the midway. A 1995 Chevrolet Tahoe, driven by 21-year-old Valerie Shaw of White Lake, struck the young boy. He was pronounced dead at Community General Hospital following the 8:00 p.m. incident.

Police said Shaw did not see the child run out between two rides. No tickets have been issued. Justin is the son of Joseph and Theresa Dalanzo of Youngsville.

MONTICELLO - While still surveying for damage Sullivan County officials estimated storm cost inventory from the August 12 flooding totals $1,351,000 in damage to roads and bridges in Tusten and Cochecton.

Bridge repairs will total $893,000. Cost for the stone-arch bridge in Tusten are estimated at $220,000, while repairs to the closed Mitchell Pond Road bridge will come to $500,000. Nine other bridges also were damaged with an estimated $37,000 repair bill.

Of the $458,000 in roads damages, the lion's share, $330,000, goes to County Road 23, which washed out for a half mile along Mile Hill in Tusten.

NORTH BRANCH - A badly planned ATV jumped injured a 31-year-old North Branch woman on Sunday afternoon, August 20.

According to NY State Police, Janayna Brockner was on Buck Brook Road attempting to jump the machine, using a rock as a ramp when it overturned and threw her off. She was transported by Upper Delaware Volunteer Ambulance to Community General Hospital in Harris, where she received stitches to her head. Brockner was issued a ticket for not wearing a helmet.

NARROWSBURG - The Town of Tusten Board decided last Monday evening that it would have to increase the capital reserve fund that will be used to pay for a new town barn by $50,000.

"We got the bids in and saw that the barn will cost more than the $250,000 we had budgeted," said town supervisor Richard Crandall.

The board approved the lowest of the three bids connected with the construction. It is re-advertising its resolution to raise the fund to give residents 30 days notice, Crandall said.

The action occurred at during a meeting that was recessed after their board meeting on August 14.

MONTICELLO - Attempting to deal with long standing aesthetic issues that more recently have developed a ethnic bias edge, members of the Sullivan County Legislature have formed a committee to "open an avenue of discussion," with the leaders of the ultra-orthodox Jewish communities who reside in some of the county's more dilapidated bungalow colonies in the summer. The county and some of the towns want to get the camps spruced up.

Leni Binder (D-7), Robert Kunis (D-8) and Jodi Goodman (RC-5) who first broached the idea were appointed on August 17 to begin the dialog.

Goodman admitted the job would be difficult at the outset, since the committee, as representatives of year-round population, came up empty when someone asked just who they were supposed to seeking out. "We don't even know who each other's leaders are," she said.

Goodman said that beginning the final week before Labor Day, the committee would be liaison that would not deter or interact with local code enforcement officers. "We just want to show them how to be better neighbors," she added.

PIKE and WAYNE COUNTIES - Pike and Wayne West Nile officials met on Monday with representatives from the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to perform an intensive collection of insect samples in areas only lightly covered during the previous "blitz" done when the virus turned up in Orange County, N.Y.

"There are lots of mosquitoes everywhere we go, but none have been infected," said Pike's West Nile field representative Karen Batalin.

The DEP has been assisting the counties so that many more traps can be harvested within hours, Batalin said. "When we send 50 or more samples to the lab in a day or two, we feel we can trust the negative results."

According to Batalin, the most important message is prevention. "We need to keep the little buggers from breeding," she said. One way to prevent breeding is to eliminate stagnant water around the home and garden. For more information visit www.WestNile.state.pa.us or call 877/PA-HEALTH.

HONESDALE - A crisis faced by senior citizens unable to afford health insurance and prescription plans will be the focus of a meeting next month at the Hideout Development in Wayne County.

Betty Sullivan, president of the Advisory Council for the Wayne County Area Agency on Aging, called on the Wayne County Commissioners to join the them in the pursuit for affordable health care for local seniors.

She told the commissioners, at yesterday's meeting, that the situation, after the loss of HMO coverage, has many turning to desperate measures. The meeting is set for Saturday September 9, at the main lodge of the Hideout off Route 590, east of Hamlin. The public is welcome and passes will be available at the gate.