Severance tax bill designed to help seniors
HARRISBURG - A Senate Republican leader wants to levy a state Marcellus Shale severance tax as a way to pay for a freeze on school property taxes for senior citizens.Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi,...
View ArticleLourdes awards its senior scholars
COAL TOWNSHIP - Our Lady of Lourdes held the annual awards program honoring senior scholars on Wednesday, May 18. The following students were award winners: Valedictorian, Christopher Brokus, and...
View ArticleApproval likely on $93,000 bid for new hangar
PAXINOS - The Northumberland County Airport Authority is expected to award an approximate $93,000 contract Thursday night for a new hangar facility.Ron Smith, chairman of the airport authority, said...
View ArticleLawmakers face unemployment compensation benefits deadline
HARRISBURG - Facing a deadline by the end of next week to maintain jobless benefits for thousands of Pennsylvanians, lawmakers are searching for compromise on accompanying proposals to pull the state's...
View ArticlePolice Blotter 06-05-11
Trevorton man chargedTREVORTON - Gerald Patrick Helms, 33, of 409 Oak St., has been charged by Cpl. George Ritchey of state police at Stonington with harassment, public drunkenness, disorderly conduct,...
View ArticleFiery crash on Rts. 11-15 kills York Co. woman, 21
PORT TREVORTON - A York County woman was killed Friday morning when the car she was driving collided with a tractor-trailer at the intersection of Routes 11/15 and the Shady Lane Boat Launch in Chapman...
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Property transfersBeneficial Consumer Discount Company (DBA), Beneficial Mortgage Company of Pennsylvania to Eric Stephen Schrader, Janel Lynn Schrader, property in Point Township, $60,000.James J....
View Article180 pounds of medicines 'taken back'
SUNBURY - Northumberland County District Attorney Tony Rosini and Montour County District Attorney Robert Buehner Jr. said 180.65 pounds of medications were collected in Northumberland County during...
View ArticleNoteworthy 06-05-11
Lane restrictions continue on I-80Following are the planned work-zone lane closures for Interstate 80 in Columbia County for the week of June 6:- Monday through Thursday, the I-80 eastbound right lane...
View ArticleShamokin 'Guards' sent 109 to battle in 1861
Many years ago, I came across a book at the Shamokin-Coal Township Public Library called "The Shamokin Guards." In this year which inaugurates the 150th anniversary of America's Civil War, it's worth...
View ArticleReporter downs drinks for DUI training
SHAMOKIN - Wow.That's the best way to describe my eye-opening, stomach-turning, headache-induced experience as a participant in Friday's Standardized Field Sobriety Testing conducted by the Institute...
View ArticleSilver Bowl packed for special athletes
MOUNT CARMEL - Mount Carmel Area's Silver Bowl was packed Saturday morning for the 17th annual Celebration of Special Athletes.A Parade of Champions kicked off the event and dignitaries presented...
View ArticleMasser weighs budget options Legislator sympathetic to schools, but defends...
State Rep. Kurt Masser says he wishes local school districts were in a better position to balance their 2011-12 budgets, recognizing that most in his 107th Legislative District are debating between...
View ArticleKeep tobacco settlement funds where intended
The concept of a government windfall is a foreign one now, as the federal, state and local governments focus mostly on cutting services.Back in 2001, though, state lawmakers and then-Gov. Tom Ridge...
View ArticleChoosing a nursing or rehab center
Editor's note: This is the first of what will be a monthly column provided by Mountain View: A Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Coal Township. "Sensible Seniors" will appear on the Health and Fitness...
View ArticleSCA grad makes dean's list
YORK - Megan Phillips has been named to the dean's list for the spring semester at York College of Pennsylvania with a grade point average of 4.0, while participating in track and field. She also...
View ArticleCollege News: King's College graduates
WILKES-BARRE - Five area students earned degrees during King's College's 62nd commencement exercises on May 22. They are: Keziah Block, of Shamokin, Bachelor of Arts, elementary education. Teyah L....
View ArticleFlag raised in honor of Civil War veteran
MOUNT CARMEL - The Mount Carmel Area Joint Veterans Committee held its 418th Changing of the Colors flag ceremony on Sunday, May 22, in honor and memory of a veteran of the Civil War.This year marks...
View ArticleNoteworthy 6/6/11
13 die in holiday crashesHARRISBURG - Thirteen people were killed and 294 others were injured in crashes investigated by the Pennsylvania State Police during the four-day Memorial Day travel period,...
View ArticleWoman killed when SUV hits pole
BRANCH TOWNSHIP - A 25-year-old Pottsville woman was killed Sunday morning when her 1998 Ford Bronco exited Route 901 at a high rate of speed and crashed into a telephone pole at the intersection with...
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