Police log, March 30, 2014
2 escape injuryin Rt. 61 collisionDARKWATER - Two people escaped injury when their vehicles collided about 6:30 a.m. Wednesday in the southbound lanes of Route 61 in New Castle Township.State police at...
View ArticleForensic team searches area in New Castle Township
FRACKVILLE - An Erie County forensic anthropology team Saturday discovered an additional bone in an area of New Castle Township where numerous other skeletal remains were found two days before. On...
View ArticlePPL roundtable explains spike in electricity rates
A combination of bad weather and a huge demand versus a short supply of electricity caused an unexpected upward spike in variable electric rates in January, a PPL Electric Utilities official...
View ArticleTeenagers give back to the community by volunteering
Several teenagers and adults from Bethesda Evangelical Congregation Church, Schuylkill Haven, gave back to their community March 1 by volunteering time to spruce up the inside of The Community Mission...
View ArticleAround the region, March 30, 2014
n Deer Lake: The Deer Lake & West Brunswick Fire Company will sponsor bingo games from 6 to 8:45 p.m. Tuesday in the firehall, 1 Ash Road. Doors will open at 5 p.m. All are welcome. n Frackville:...
View ArticleFormer Boston Celtics legend to present anti-drug program
A basketball legend who once played for the Boston Celtics will be addressing students, as well as the public, at DHH Lengel Middle School this week.Lisa Holobetz, a teacher at the middle school in...
View ArticleVolunteer Connection: April brings Landscape Month, Earth Day
April starts Tuesday, when we'll celebrate National Landscape Month and National Library and National Volunteer weeks. We'll also recognize Earth Day, Pay It Forward Day and Arbor Day. Spring has been...
View ArticlePa. steel town subject of French documentary
When I can't sleep at night, I don't count sheep. Instead, I fill up Pottsville storefronts with the shops I used to know as a child. Back then, around this time of year, my Aunt Mildred, a former...
View ArticleDeeds, March 30, 2014
DeedsPine Grove Township - Joseph G. Groody, sheriff of Schuylkill County, to Steel Mountain Capital Management LLC; 21 Second Mountain Road; $1,185.74.Mary J. and Franklin G. Lucas, Robert D. and...
View ArticleSchuylkill Haven man killed in crash on Interstate 81
PINE GROVE - A two-vehicle accident on Interstate 81 claimed the life of a Schuylkill Haven man driving a sport utility vehicle without a seat belt Saturday, according to state police at...
View ArticlePeter Cottontail hops into Frackville
FRACKVILLE - It was a hopping good time at the Schuylkill Mall on Saturday as the Easter Bunny arrived in all his furriness to the delight of children.The traditional arrival at the mall was preceded...
View ArticlePolice seek identity of man who impersonated an officer
DEER LAKE - Schuylkill County Crime Stoppers and state police at Schuylkill Haven are asking for the public's help in identifying a man who posed as a police officer and pulled a woman driver over...
View ArticleEaster Bunny arrives in Cressona
CRESSONA - Before a crowd of more than 100 people, including dozens of children, the spirit of Easter rolled into the Cressona Mall parking lot Saturday morning in a chrome-laden, burgundy convertible...
View ArticleMan killed in head-on crash on Route 54
MAHANOY CITY - A woman collided with another car, killing its driver, Saturday in Mahanoy Township, shortly after she struck a pedestrian. Both accidents occurred on Route 54 about 12:30 a.m.,...
View ArticlePennsylvania Starwatch: Spring stars not as cool as winter views, but the...
While the Earth continues on its never ending journey around the sun, our evening view of the heavens is turning away from the bright winter constellations and toward the less-than-awesome spring star...
View ArticleVehicle-related fees to rise starting Tuesday
Pennsylvania drivers will be paying higher vehicle-related fees starting Tuesday.Mandated by the transportation funding legislation approved by Gov. Tom Corbett in November 2013, the higher fees and an...
View ArticleNewspaper staff wins state awards
The Republican-Herald won two awards in the Pennsylvania News Media Association’s Keystone Press Awards for work in 2013, the association announced Thursday. The staff won second place in the Special...
View ArticleDeeds, March 31, 2014
DeedsCass Township - Jon and Patricia Leonard to Jon C. Leonard and Patricia E. Leonard, trustees under The Jon C. Leonard and Patricia E. Leonard Revocable Trust Agreement; 0.29-acre property on...
View ArticleNativity plans summer class for theater students
Nativity BVM Catholic High School in Pottsville is trying something new this summer by hosting a week-long theater arts camp for area high school and college students."It's a theater camp as opposed to...
View ArticleInquest set for today in inmate's death
NEW PHILADELPHIA - Prosecutors and officials will gather at 10 a.m. today at Simon Kramer Institute to seek the answer to a single question: How did Matthew Koncsler die?Exactly one year after...
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