Carbon County property transfers

Deeds recorded

Penn Forest Township

Todd M. Fox to Todd M. Fox, 30 Wetzel Road, Jim Thorpe, property at 30 Wetzel Road, $1.

Larry E. Collins to Keith Frederick Bryson, Lumberton, Pa., Lot V764, Section V, Towamensing Trails, $152,900.

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., to Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Oklahoma City, Okla., property at 26 Cold Spring Drive, $1.

Marina Landviger to Marina Landviger, Brooklyn, N.Y., property at 602 N. Shore Drive, Albrightsville, $1.

Ruth Gambetta to Mark DeSorbo, Villas, N.J., Lot 44, Section 1A, Valley View Estates, $1.

Gerald Meyers to Joseph Bongo, 8 Teaberry Lane, Jim Thorpe, property at 8 Teaberry Lane, $210,000.

Maryann Marine to Peter J. Rio Jr., Elverson, Pa., property at 714 Towamensing Trail Road, Albrightsville, $101,000.

Edward F. Andrews to Kathleen E. Schoener, 207 Bear Creek Drive, Jim Thorpe, Bear Creek Lake Drive Lot 7, $1,000.

Timothy Lee Sawyer to Richard Meservey, Ewing, N.J., property at 445 Behrens Road, $149,900.

Mary P. Wargo to Nature Conservancy, Harrisburg, three tracts, $1.

John Wargo Family Trust to Nature Conservancy, Harrisburg, lots 18 and 19, John Wargo Development, $1.

Robert Dekis to Jesse R. Pfeifer, 29 West Drive, Jim Thorpe, property at 29 West Drive, $109,000.

Prothonotary's report

A total of 364 cases were started in August in the office of Carbon County Prothonotary Joann M. Behrens, according to a monthly statistical report released by the officeholder. A breakdown of the cases is as follows:

Civil actions, 46; custody complaints, 23; district justice appeals, 12; divorce complaints, 10; ejectment, 2; license appeal, 1; mortgage foreclosure complaints, 13; protection from abuse petitions, 23; quiet title actions, 2; judgments, 226; miscellaneous cases, 2; paternity suit, 1; stipulations/waivers of liens, 2; and writ of execution, 1. The office staff also received and processed 76 applications for U.S. Passports.

Behrens' financial report shows that $30,599.05 was generated last month as follows: prothonotary's fees, $24,906.76; interest income, $6.19; custody fees, $550; and data processing fees, $5,136.10.

The prothonotary also remitted $3,180.24 to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Revenue, representing state fees collected locally, and $78 to the Administrative Offices of the Pennsylvania Courts, this being surcharges on new custody cases in accordance with Act 119 of 1996. Another $1,450.50 was deposited in the Prothonotary's Automation Fund for future use in automating the office.