Public comment sought in transportation plan
The Northeastern Pennsylvania Alliance, which serves as the Metropolitan Planning Organization for Carbon, Schuylkill, Monroe and Pike counties, is seeking comments on its draft long-range...
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n Frackville: An American Red Cross blood drive will be held from noon to 5 p.m. Feb. 13 at the Schuylkill Mall. People 17 and older (16 with parental consent), weighing at least 110 pounds and in...
View ArticleWinter Carnival master of ceremonies interviews senior princesses
Twenty-two women shared a little about themselves and answered questions during Yuengling Night at the Humane Fire Company in Pottsville. With snow still visible downtown, the winter weather did not...
View ArticleShepherd’s Fold hopes to open next week
MINERSVILLE — The organizers of a new pre-K to 12 school for “accelerated Christian education,” The Shepherd’s Fold Christian Academy and Bible Institute, hope to be open next week, according to its...
View ArticleBirths, Jan. 30, 2016
Geisinger Medical Center, Danville To Matthew and Tangie Knorr Wetzel, Ashland, a daughter, Jan. 18. To Jacqueline Costy, Schuy-lkill County, a son, Jan. 21.
View ArticleConservation officials urge shutterbugs to focus on nature
In an effort to promote the visual wonders of the county’s waterways and woodlands, the Schuylkill Conservation District and Schuylkill County Conservancy are once again hosting a photo contest this...
View ArticleNew house in France a bit like home
While on Jan. 23, two feet of snow was falling on Schuylkill County and most county residents were staying inside, on other side of the Atlantic, I was out and about in the damp and cold, hours before...
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Florida Amanda Boczkowski graduated Dec. 19, 2015, from the University of Florida with a master’s degree in biomedical engineering with a concentration in medical physics. A 2008 graduate of Marian...
View ArticleValley View man shares Pa. Dutch stand-up routines
VALLEY VIEW — Kai Morgan knows he’s a little different. He was one of the few “non-Caucasian” kids to graduate from Tri-Valley High School, and comes from a mixed ethnic background of what he describes...
View ArticleMahanoy Area approves technology center budget, assessment
MAHANOY CITY — The Mahanoy Area school board approved at Thursday’s meeting the Schuylkill Technology Center secondary budget for the 2016-17 school year that includes the assessment the school...
View ArticleGirls from Ashland, Pottsville crowned princesses at Winter Carnival pageant
Girls from Ashland and Pottsville took home top honors Saturday at the Snowdrop/Snowflake Coronation Pageant at Pottsville Area High School. Rachael Cataldo, 17, of Ashland, was named Greater...
View ArticleVolunteer Connection: Tamaqua art center offers exciting opportunities
It may be cold outside but the Tamaqua Community Arts Center has so many activities, classes and events you won’t want to stay indoors. TCAC is making things happen with new and exciting opportunities...
View ArticleDistrict court, Jan. 31, 2016
James R. Ferrier ORWIGSBURG — An Orwigsburg man is headed to Schuylkill County Court after a preliminary hearing Tuesday on charges he knocked a man unconscious in December in Cressona. Steven M....
View ArticleDeeds, Jan 31, 2016
Deeds Auburn — George W. and Richele G. Zvorsky to Roy M. Zook, Tiayease Zook and Miriam A. Woerner; 118 N. Second St.; $58,000. Cass Township — Douglas A. Sr. and Joyce A. Snader to Austin L. Bohr; 83...
View Articlecollege notes
Albright Tyler Bernadyn, Frackville, a senior biochemistry major at Albright College, Reading, spent winter break tackling an Albright Creative Research Experience project. Tyler’s project was titled...
View ArticleResearchers probe murky roots of man’s sometimes best friend
OXFORD, England — Before humans milked cows, herded goats or raised hogs, before they invented agriculture or written language, before they had permanent homes, and most certainly before they had cats,...
View Articleneighbors in the news
Testing engineer Ben Serano, an astronautical engineering major at Capitol Technology University, Laurel, Maryland, was the lead testing engineer of Hermes, a Capitol Technology University payload...
View ArticleCriminal court, Jan. 31, 2016
A Brandonville man returned to prison Monday after a Schuylkill County judge revoked his probation and then sentenced him in connection with a dozen thefts. Francis J. Layton, 25, must serve 5 1/2 to...
View ArticleAshland Area Municipal Authority gets update on reservoir project
ASHLAND — The Ashland Area Municipal Authority board received an update on its reservoir raising project from Alfred Benesch & Co. senior designer Natalie L. O’Connor at its Jan. 25 meeting. “We...
View ArticleElephants still needhuman help
Q: What is being done to save elephants worldwide? I understand that these magnificent creatures are teetering on the brink of extinction. — MILLIE VICENTE, SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA A: In just one decade...
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