Feb 13, 2021
LOCK HAVEN Clinton County Agriculture Preservation Board reminds area farmland owners of 35 acres or more, the current round of applications to the Farmland Preservation Program will be accepted until March 31.
The next round of applications will be eligible for April 1 to March 31, 2023.
Applications submitted previously can be resubmitted to be reconsidered for the next round, if landowners who have previously applied so choose. There is a $50 non-refundable fee to apply.
Clinton County’s Program, similar to 57 other county programs, pays farmland owners for conservation easements to be placed on valuable farmland. The easement purchases the development rights of the land, thus preserving the farmland forever.
Ernest W. Force, Jr.
Ernest W. Force, Jr. (Ernie) went home to be with his Lord and Savior on Jan. 9, 2021.
Ernie was born in Philipsburg on May 25, 1937. He was the son of the late Ernest and Elsie (Lapps) Force. He grew up in Grassflat where, he stated many times, he had a very enjoyable childhood. Baseball in the summer, ice skating and skiing in the winter, fishing and hunting all the time, for what more could a kid ask.
After graduating from Cooper Twp. High School in 1955, he went to work at Bethlehem Steel in Lackawanna, N.Y. where he decided the Buffalo winters were too much for him and he returned to Clarence, Pa. to the J. H. France Refractories.