Criminal court, March 16, 2013
Twenty-six people will have the chance to wipe their records clean as they entered a special program Thursday in Schuylkill County Court that will allow them to emerge unscathed from an encounter with...
View ArticleUnion Street Bridge open to traffic
TREMONT - The Union Street Bridge is now open.PennDOT closed the bridge in 2004 because it was not suitable for use. With residents of the borough looking on, the orange and white barrels with yellow...
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n Millersburg: The Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art has announced the second installment in the DeSoto Film and Music Series - a screening of the 1927 silent film "Metropolis," complete with a live...
View ArticleFirst of city's new police cruisers arrives
The first of two new police cruisers that the City Council bought Monday arrived at City Hall on Thursday afternoon.Unlike the other police cars in the city fleet, these have bars on the rear passenger...
View ArticleMan arrested on drug charges
MINERSVILLE - A Pottsville man was jailed Thursday after being arrested by Minersville police on drug charges.Josif Janceski, whose age was not available, was arraigned by on-call Magisterial District...
View ArticlePolice log, March 16, 2013
McAdoo policecharge 6 with DUIMcADOO - McAdoo police charged six people with DUI as the result of separate traffic stops in the borough.Two people were charged after committing traffic violations Dec....
View ArticleDeeds, March 16, 2013
DeedsAshland - Ingenious Intelligence BNC Inc. to Ronald Liggins; 1023 Arch St.; $1.Cass Township - Ryan Heffron and Erin Heffron to Michael E. Heffron; property; $1,000.Ryan Heffron and Erin Heffron...
View ArticleCorrection, March 16, 2013
Incorrect informationTo register for the annual leap in the lake Polar Plunge, Lake Wynonah, call David Tyson at 570-739-4462. The telephone number was wrong in Friday's edition.
View ArticleMan charged with selling drugs in Minersville
MINERSVILLE - Minersville police have obtained an arrest warrant for a 38-year-old man charging him with selling drugs in the borough last week.Police said Michael R. Bramley, who has no known address,...
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Pastor installedDavid R. Rowe, Oley, was formally installed as pastor of Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church, Schuyl-kill Haven, on Feb. 24.Nearly 175 people participated in the celebration as the...
View ArticleStudents of the month, March 17, 2013
Mahanoy MiddleJessica Gunoskey and Kyle Loughlin were named students of the month for January by Mahanoy Area Middle School faculty through a program sponsored by the Mahanoy City Benevolent and...
View ArticleMilitary, March 17, 2013
Master sergeantMichael Cuttic, Frackville, was promoted to master sergeant in the Marine Corps.He graduated from North Schuylkill High School in 1991 and joined the corps in 1992. He has served in...
View ArticleDean's list, March 17, 2013
ShippensburgDesirée Anne Davenport, a freshman majoring in early childhood education, made the dean's list for the fall semester at Shippensburg University.A 2012 graduate of Nativity BVM High School,...
View ArticleBirths, March 17, 2013
Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest, AllentownTo Jared and Nicole Oertmann Manbeck, Orwigsburg, a son, Jan. 18.
View ArticleSchuylkill IU teachers, school board to return to bargaining table
MAR LIN - The Schuylkill Intermediate 29 Board of Directors and teachers are planning to return to the bargaining table for a negotiation session Wednesday, Diane M. Niederriter, IU 29 executive...
View ArticleCollege notes, March 17, 2013
Elizabethtown Hannah C. Blecker, a sophomore majoring in international business at Elizabethtown College, has been named a 2013 Emergent Scholar. Hannah has attained a 3.75 or higher GPA for each of...
View ArticleMahantongo Heritage Center makes Don Yoder wire recordings available
Chances are most of us haven't heard the songs "Doh hockt sie uff dem gli-gla-Gletzel" or "Schpinn, schpinn, mei liewi Dochder." ("There she sits on the little block of wood" and "Spin, spin, my dear...
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n Barnesville: The annual Chinese auction sponsored by the Carbon-Tamaqua Unit of the American Cancer Society Telethon Committee will be held at noon March 24 in the Lakeside Ballroom, Route 54....
View ArticlePolice looking for Shenandoah woman who failed to appear in court in 2003
Schuylkill County District Attorney Karen Byrnes-Noon and Chief County Detective Dennis Clark are asking for the public's help in locating a former Shenandoah woman who failed to appear for sentencing...
View ArticlePublic input sought on Pleasant Valley Park
PINE GROVE - Two meetings remain for the public to submit ideas for the Pleasant Valley Park Master Plan.After that, the plan will be presented at a final meeting. Meanwhile, ideas can also be emailed...
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