DEP officials offer insights into mine reclamation projects
For more than 20 years, Agnes Wood, 607 Brew St., Tamaqua, has had problems with mine water creeping into her basement. On Feb. 10, a pool of water with a reddish tinge at least a quarter-inch deep...
View ArticleGirl Scouts lend helping hand to nonprofit that cares for homeless
Servants To All had some help keeping up with growing number of people seeking food and shelter over the past few cold and snowy weeks. Girl Scout Troop 31260, Hegins and Valley View, donated more than...
View ArticleKane will not run for re-election
State Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane still faces criminal charges, multiple lawsuits by her former employees and possibly legislative action to remove her from office. She no longer faces a...
View ArticlePenn State Schuylkill receives grant for STEM studies
Penn State Schuylkill has received $1.5 million from the John E. Morgan Foundation for initiatives in the science, technology, engineering and math fields and financial assistance to students pursing...
View ArticleCustomer inquires into Schuylkill County Municipal Authority sewer fee
A Schuylkill County Municipal Authority customer is upset he has to pay a fee similar to a nearby West Brunswick Township business for sewer service. Tim Hill, owner Season’s Art along Route 61 North,...
View ArticleFormer Tremont code enforcement officer pleads guilty to summary offense
FRACKVILLE — A former Tremont borough councilman and code enforcement officer pleaded guilty Tuesday to a summary offense after being charged by Tremont police with bringing a loaded, concealed firearm...
View ArticleWeather to improve through the week
Schuylkill County seems to have escaped flooding for the most part, local street supervisors and fire chiefs said Tuesday. “We had no calls at all,” Pottsville Fire Chief Todd March said before 3 p.m....
View ArticleAround the region, Feb. 17, 2016
n Allentown: Public voting for the third annual “What’s So Cool About Manufacturing?” student video contest opens today and runs to 11:59 p.m. Friday at the Dream It. Do It. Pennsylvania website,...
View ArticleSaint Clair council hires contractor to raze the Ritz
SAINT CLAIR — The borough council on Tuesday hired a contractor from Northumberland County — the lowest of three bidders — to tear down the shell of a former movie house known as the Ritz Theatre....
View ArticleTemple burglar headed to state prison
Jeremy A. Tresselt, who admitted burglarizing the Vraj Temple in Wayne Township in June 2013, is headed to state prison after being sentenced Tuesday in Schuylkill County Court. A repentant Tresselt,...
View ArticlePolice log, Feb. 17, 2016
City man threatens to shoot 2 men A man was charged by state police at Schuylkill Haven with threatening to kill two men who came to his Norwegian Township home Monday to repossess a camper. Police...
View ArticleCounty students to take charge of blight talk at Youth Summit
SCHUYLKILL HAVEN — Schuylkill County students will look to tackle blight at the fourth annual Youth Summit on March 10. More than 100 high school students from all the districts in the county will...
View ArticlePottsville Area rejects STC budget
In a unanimous vote Wednesday, the Pottsville Area school board rejected the proposed Schuylkill Technology Center secondary budget for 2016-17. One of the reasons is related to an old wound the...
View ArticleFor the record, Feb. 18, 2016
Marriage licenses Michael W. Barto, Pine Grove, and Marketa Maresova, Pine Grove. Lamar Benton, Chester, and Sierra Wallace, Philadelphia. Francis Boyd, Frackville, and Priscilla A. Crawford,...
View ArticlePolice log, Feb. 18, 2016
Man charged with theft, trespassing Cass Township police filed charges against an 18-year-old Pottsville man after an incident at 97 Low Road between Dec. 17 and 28. Police said they charged Jerry M....
View ArticleCriminal court, Feb. 18, 2016
A McAdoo man faces prison time after failing to appear Tuesday for his hearing in Schuylkill County Court. Matthew Acker, 33, is guilty of driving under suspension, Judge Jacqueline L. Russell ruled in...
View ArticleTable game jobs miss mark in state
HARRISBURG — State lawmakers got overly rosy projections about the jobs being created when they legalized table games at casinos in 2010, the state’s top fiscal watchdog said Wednesday. The actual...
View ArticleKunigonis gets prison, probation for $452K theft from conservation district
HARRISBURG — Virginia G. Kunigonis is headed to federal prison after being sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court for stealing more than $452,000 from the Schuylkill County Conservation District...
View ArticlePolice charge man with rape of minor
State police at Lykens charged a Williamstown man with the rape of an underage babysitter, incidents that resulted in a pregnancy and the birth of a child, police said Wednesday night. On Wednesday,...
View ArticleAttorney: Suppress incriminating statement made by Frein
SCRANTON — State police troopers who interrogated accused cop killer Eric Matthew Frein violated his rights when they continued to question him, even though he said he didn’t want to talk about “any...
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