Harrisburg dentist accused of raping a 15-year-old girl; she says they met on a dating site
Updated May 13, 2021;
MIDDLEBURG – A Harrisburg dentist is accused of raping a 15-year-old Snyder County girl and several times giving her a “morning after pill.”
Michael Boyd Damgaard, 33, of Dauphin, is charged by state police with numerous counts including rape and involuntary deviate sexual intercourse under threat of force and statutory sexual assault.
He surrendered Wednesday at the office of District Judge Lori R. Hackenberg and was detained in lieu of $175,000 bail which he later posted.
Damgaard admitted twice going on a “hiking date” with the girl but denied having sex with her or filming the encounters as she alleged, the arrest affidavit states.
Long-time president of the Pennsylvania College of Technology to retire in 2022
Updated May 13, 2021;
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WILLIAMSPORT The president of the Pennsylvania College of Technology for nearly quarter of a century has announced plans to retire in June 2022.
President Davie Jane Gilmour joined the faculty of the then Williamsport Area Community College in 1977 as an instructor and curriculum developer in the dental hygiene program.
After a series of promotions and WACC becoming Penn College in 1989, she was named vice president for academic affairs in 1993 and three years later was given the additional duties as provost.
She became president of the special mission affiliate of Penn State on May 4, 1998. A nationwide search will be conducted to find her successor, the college said.
From Staff Reports
Surrounded by the well-nurtured natural beauty that earned Pennsylvania College of Technology a sixth straight title, Grant Walters (left), of Dover, enrolled in landscape/horticulture technology: landscape emphasis, and Aaron Larson, a forest technology major from Erie, hold a commemorative Tree Campus banner. Aided by its knowledgeable team of General Services horticulturists and foresters, along with academic programs in both of those disciplines, Pennsylvania College of Technology has been chosen as a national “Tree Campus” for the sixth consecutive year.
The Arbor Day Foundation’s Tree Campus Higher Education program honors colleges and universities for effective campus forest management and for engaging employees and students in conservation goals.
Hannah Steppe
JERSEY SHORE The Jersey Shore Business and Professional Women’s Club Girl of the Month for April is Hannah Naomi Steppe, daughter of Sherry and Joe Steppe of Cogan Station.
Hannah’s activities include Model UN. Homecoming committee, Paw Print, one year; National Art Honor Society, Key Club, two years; National Spanish Honor Society, three years, and FBLA and National English Honor Society, four years.
During her senior year, Hannah serves as the Historian for the National Art Honor Society, Historian for the National English Honor Society, and Historian for the National Spanish Honor Society.
Outside of school, Hannah works part time at Tiadaghton Embroidery.
Jonathan Bergmueller
Soap Box Derby racers finished assembling their racing vehicles in anticipation of race day a month out.
The construction workshop, hosted at the Penn Woods Bancorp. building in South Williamsport on Saturday, allowed children racing in the event, accompanied by their adult “handler,” to construct the soap box “stock” car.
Each of the 64 participating children who attended the workshop left with a stock car that has been teched for safety and is able to be practiced at home.
The fate of the race, which will take place on the Market Street hill on June 12, was previously left up in the air after the coronavirus pandemic impounded racers last summer.