Residents voice concerns over Tower City trash
TOWER CITY - Numerous residents addressed the borough council at its Monday night meeting to voice their concern over trash accumulating on several properties and about the lack of code enforcement by...
View ArticleDeeds, April 15, 2014
DeedsMcAdoo - Stonecrest Income and Opportunity Fund-I LLC to Colonial Funding Group LLC; 60 N,. Sheridan St.; $20,561.60.North Union Township - Eagle Rock Resort Co. to Fangzhou Zhao and Ying Liang;...
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n Mahanoy City: Mahanoy Area School District kindergarten registrations/screenings are set for 9 to 11:30 a.m. and 1 to 2:30 p.m. June 4, 5 and 6 by appointment only. Parents/guardians must call the...
View ArticlePottsville outlines downtown blight initiative, plans community summit
With a business survey, a building assessment and a community summit, the City of Pottsville and the nonprofit Pottsville Area Development Corp. will start the first phase of its downtown anti-blight...
View ArticlePolice log, April 17, 2014
Driving complaintleads to chargesSHENANDOAH HEIGHTS - A reckless driving complaint received by West Mahanoy Township police on March 25 led to charges being filed against a Shenandoah Heights man.After...
View ArticleMore than 900 students flock to career fair
Darren Heffelfinger, a senior at Tamaqua Area, said this summer he's going into the Marines; Danielle Gordon, a senior at Pottsville Area, said that, after graduation, she's going to work hard to...
View ArticleDeeds, April 17, 2014
DeedsBranch Township - The Rev. John Bloh and Edward M. Brennan, co-executors for the Estate of the Rev. Lawrence J. Victor, to Albert Thomas Barnes Jr.; 801 Lytle St.; $1.Butler Township - Tax Claim...
View ArticleClarification, April 17, 2014
City not listedSchuylkill County District Attorney Christine A. Holman and county Detective Dennis Clark are asking for the public's help in locating a woman wanted on drug charges. Police said they...
View ArticleCommissioners OK new radios for domestic relations personnel
Deputy sheriffs working for the Domestic Relations Office will be able to perform their jobs better as the result of the Schuylkill County Commissioners approving on Wednesday the purchase of improved...
View ArticleWeight limits will be set on some West Mahanoy streets
SHENANDOAH HEIGHTS - Due to increased truck traffic on some streets in the Altamont section of West Mahanoy Township, there will soon be weight limits on those streets.The township supervisors voted at...
View ArticlePrison board reaffirms position on policies after inquest
Schuylkill County officials reiterated Wednesday that the March 2013 death of an inmate in the county prison does not mean new policies should be adopted.Warden Eugene Berdanier said he will review the...
View ArticleFBI, state police search Lukach office
FBI agents and Pennsylvania State Police searched Schuylkill County Clerk of Courts Stephen M. Lukach Jr.'s office Wednesday morning as part of the investigation into alleged misappropriation of...
View ArticleFAMA now has capacity to treat sewage from Morea and New Boston
FRACKVILLE - The Frackville Area Municipal Authority will reconsider the request from Mahanoy Township to allow the villages of Morea and New Boston to connect to the system.Thanks to a strong effort...
View ArticlePottsville Area pursues YouTube policy
Teachers at Pottsville Area School District have requested permission to use educational videos on YouTube in their classes, Dianne Dougherty, district technology director, said Wednesday."We've gotten...
View ArticleJudges reject life prisoner's appeal
by peter e. bortner For the fourth time, the state Superior Court has rejected the appeal of a Mahanoy City man serving life in prison for murdering a Columbia County man in 1979 drive-by shooting in...
View ArticleSchool elevator fire forces evacuation in Pottsville
A fire in the motor of the elevator at Pottsville Area's John. S. Clarke Elementary Center on Wednesday morning forced the district to evacuate the building, according to Superintendent Jeffrey S....
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n Millersburg: The Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art will launch a new "free Fridays" program on Friday. Admission to the center's galleries is free on Fridays for the remainder of 2014, according to...
View ArticleCourt rejects appeal of gas station shooter
by peter e. bortner A Huntingdon man has lost another appeal of his Schuylkill County conviction for attempted first-degree murder and related crimes stemming from a March 2000 shooting.In a nine-page...
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n Gilberton: The Gilberton United Methodist Church will have a fish dinner from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. today at the church, Main Street. The cost is $9 per dinner, which includes baked or breaded fish,...
View ArticleSchuylkill Haven council hires recreation director
SCHUYLKILL HAVEN - The Schuylkill Haven borough council hired a recreation director at their meeting Wednesday.By unanimous vote, the board hired B.J. Folk, 30, of New Ringgold, as full-time recreation...
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