News from home: Bear on Main Street
(photo by Kelly Stemcosky, Wellsboro Gazette)
(unknown source)
A bear found its way up a tree around 8:30 p.m. Monday night, June 30, in front of Subway on Main Street in Wellsboro [Tioga County, Pa.].
Crowds of people watched from the sidewalk as the borough police, members of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and the Game Commission worked to get the bear down safely.
Jacob Brink, 11, and Branden Enck, 10, said they saw the bear near Austin and Purple Streets just minutes before.
"It was walking right down Purple [Street]. It was huge," said Brink.
This bruin headed for high ground, climbing a tree on Main Street, Wellsboro on Monday evening. The animal was subsequently tranquilized, captured and eventually destroyed because of its aggressive tendencies.
(I wasn't there, I didn't see it, it's Wellsboro, the county seat.)
