Arts Barn reopens after long winter
ORWIGSBURG - The weather was perfect Sunday for the return of The Arts Barn. The gallery held its spring festival Sunday afternoon to celebrate its reopening after being closed for the winter. The...
View ArticleTrial of alleged Tri-Valley pharmacy robber starts today
The trial of the Northumberland County man charged with robbing Tri-Valley Pharmacy in Valley View will highlight the April criminal court term, which starts today in Schuylkill County Court. Charles...
View ArticleCriminal court, April 4, 2014
An Ashland woman is headed to state prison after being sentenced Wednesday in Schuylkill County Court on a charge of receiving stolen property.Brandi Benjamin, 23, must spend nine to 24 months in a...
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n Altamont: The Altamont Fire Company sponsors Lenten seafood dinners from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Fridays. Dinner includes crab cakes, haddock or shrimp, fries, hush puppies, vegetable, roll and dessert....
View ArticlePolice log, April 7, 2014
Ashland man OKin vehicle fireWEISHAMPLE - An Ashland man escaped injury after the vehicle he was driving caught fire about 5 p.m. Friday on Middle Road, just north of Knorr Lane in Barry Township,...
View ArticleTrees to be planted on mine land
TREMONT - Thousands of tree seedlings will be planted this week on land that was used for coal mining in Tremont Township.It's part of the Appalachian Regional Reforestation Initiative and the...
View ArticlePublic warned of major weekend event
Expecting a crowd of 5,000 to descend on Pottsville on Saturday for the second Yuengling Light Lager Jogger 5K, the city police and street departments are working up a traffic and parking plan similar...
View ArticleSenate panel approves cash gift ban bill
HARRISBURG - A bill to ban cash gifts with some exceptions for state and local public officials and employees was approved Monday by a Senate panel as the sponsor cited the lessons of the recent...
View ArticleSociety adds O'Hara artifacts to collection
In June 1954, noted author John O'Hara sent a thank-you card from his home in Princeton, N.J., to a friend in Times Square, New York. "Your kind expression of sympathy is gratefully acknowledged and...
View ArticleTownship code officer resigns; new one appointed
MAR LIN - The Norwegian Township supervisors Monday evening accepted the resignation of code enforcement officer Brad Petchulis.Supervisor Robert Kirwan said a letter of resignation from Petchulis, who...
View ArticleMount Carmel man acquitted of Tri-Valley Pharmacy robbery
Charles R. Frantz Jr. did not help rob Tri-Valley Pharmacy in Valley View in May 2011, a Schuylkill County jury decided Monday. The jury of eight men and four women deliberated approximately an hour...
View ArticleDonation puts Way Fair back on track
A street fair welcoming the month of May in Pottsville, a tradition for the past 38 years, will continue, thanks to an anonymous donation that secured the event's insurance."I don't know how much the...
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n Cressona: Cressona Fire Company No. 1 will host a block shoot, rumpsch and meat wheel from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday at the firehouse, 59 S. Second St. Tickets, at $5 each, are available now and will...
View ArticleDeeds, April 8, 2014
DeedsAshland - Wanda Fisbhurn to Dorettah A. and Richard W. Taylor; 1038 Vine St.; $1.Branch Township - Russell R. Jr. and Diane M. Crowe to Michael Mennig Jr. and Erin McGee; 41 Hill Terrace Drive,...
View ArticleFor the record, April 8, 2014
Marriage licensesAlec I. Boud, Schuylkill Haven, and Nicole A. Teeter, Schuylkill Haven.Bunnie Becker, Ashland, and Haley A. Bobyak, Ashland.James May, Ashland, and Keri Lynn Klinger, Ashland.Michael...
View ArticlePolice log, April 8, 2014
2 charged afterseparate incidentsHOMETOWN - Two people are facing charges by Rush Township police after incidents at the Wal-Mart shopping complex.Police said J.D. Williams, 20, of Drums, is facing...
View ArticleWoman charged Monday as a result of 2013 crash
CRESSONA - A Minersville woman was charged Monday with numerous offenses as a result of an accident last year in which the car she and three young children were in slammed head on into another vehicle...
View ArticleCorrection, April 8, 2014
Time incorrectSix people were injured in a two-vehicle crash at 2:01 p.m. Saturday on South Lehigh Avenue in Frackville. The time was incorrect in Sunday's edition.
View ArticleRingtown man admits operating meth lab in Butler
Duane H. Maurer has admitted he operated a methamphetamine laboratory in his former Butler Township residence and will go to state prison because of it.Maurer, 51, of Ringtown, pleaded guilty Friday in...
View ArticleWicked winter, rain offsets farm schedules
There won't be any July 4 sweet corn from Pennsylvania since winter was so wicked, Barron L. "Boots" Hetherington, special advisor to the governor for agriculture, said Tuesday. "If we do have any,...
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