Noteworthy: Sunday, Nov. 2, 2014
Election day pigeon dinner setMOUNT CARMEL - A pigeon dinner with all the trimmings will be offered from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Election Day, Tuesday, at Divine Mercy Hall, located on the 400 block of West...
View ArticleBeer lovers gather at Old Forge for National Learn to Homebrew Day
DANVILLE - While I'm better known as The Brew Dude, I'm a homebrewer at heart - one of over a million strong in the United States. So when Damien Malfara of Old Forge Brewing offered to host an event...
View ArticleCollege News: Scholarship to attend Bloomsburg U.
READING - Berks County Community Foundation recently distributed the annual scholarship from the Helen Monkiewicz Kubacki Scholarship Fund for Mount Carmel Area Junior-Senior High School.Bryce...
View ArticleLobbyists spent $116 million to influence Pennsylvania lawmakers
HARRISBURG - Lobbyists spent $116 million to influence Pennsylvania lawmakers last year, a Times-Shamrock Newspapers review found. That's a 10 percent increase over 2012, with the top areas of...
View ArticleMother Kaupus returns in spirit
MOUNT CARMEL - In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, thousands of people from Italy, Tyrol and present-day Poland, Lithuania and Slovakia left their homelands behind and immigrated to the Mount...
View ArticleDistrict Court: Monday, Nov. 3, 2014
The following landlord/tenant claims or judgments were filed in magisterial district court: Judge John Gembic III, Shamokin - Costello Realty, Inc., of Mount Carmel, against Ron Herb, of Shamokin, for...
View ArticleShamokin church blessed with 175 years
SHAMOKIN - Members of St. John United Church of Christ gathered one last time Sunday to celebrate their 175th anniversary with a commemorative prayer service in the church's sacristy. Under the...
View ArticleNoteworthy: Monday, Nov. 3, 2014
'Men in Harmony' to perform DORNSIFE - The male chorus of "Men in Harmony" will perform a concert at 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 9 at Himmel's Church, 107 Covered Bridge Road. This men's group is dedicated to...
View ArticleRegrets, secret revealed in author's new book
Editor's note: Monday Profiles are published on the first Monday of each month. DALMATIA - Decades of regrets and secrets kept are spilled in a new book authored by a Dalmatia resident about his time...
View ArticleJudge rules against plaintiff
WILLIAMSPORT - While the civil lawsuit of a former female sheriff's deputy against Northumberland County will continue, a federal judge has ruled against the plaintiff request to receive punitive...
View ArticleMount Carmel Township cops may learn fate Thursday
ATLAS - A vote on the fate of four Mount Carmel Township Police officers involved in a Labor Day incident with a Kulpmont police officer could come as early as Thursday. Township supervisors had...
View ArticleOrganization News: Catholic Daughters of the Americas
MOUNT CARMEL - The Catholic Daughters of the Americas Court Of Our Lady of Victory 588 held its monthly meeting Sept. 21 with an opening prayer by the Rev. Frank Karwacki of Our Lady of Mount Carmel...
View ArticleTeen cited in air gun incident
MOUNT CARMEL - One of the three individuals detained by police after causing a panic that forced the Mount Carmel Area School District to cancel its pep parade and put students on lockdown for...
View ArticleMemorials: St. Pauline Center
KULPMONT - The following memorials and special intentions were recently presented to the St. Pauline Center:John Bolick from Sylvia Kapushinski.Kevin Rodrigues from Mr. and Mrs. Carl Olley, Jack and...
View ArticleTeachers at SCA question finances at meeting
CATAWISSA R.R. - Approximately 35 members of the Southern Columbia Education Association engaged in an off-the-cuff discussion with members of the school board during a meeting Monday night. The show...
View ArticleShamokin man sentenced in multiple thefts
SUNBURY - A 25-year-old Shamokin man charged with burglary and theft-related offenses was sentenced Monday to 2 to 5 years in a state correctional institution. Northumberland County Judge Charles...
View ArticleShamokin prepares for budget under recovery program
SHAMOKIN - City council is working to prepare its first budget under the state's Act 47 financial recovery program. Mayor William D. Milbrand estimated the 2015 budget, as it stands now, at roughly...
View ArticleMan in custody after 4-hour standoff
MARION HEIGHTS - Police forced their way into a house and used pepper spray and a Taser to end a four-hour long standoff with a Marion Heights man that began around 8:30 p.m. Monday. The man, who...
View ArticleNoteworthy: Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014
Chamber 'after hours' event tonightCOAL TOWNSHIP - The Brush Valley Regional Chamber of Commerce and its newest member, Cigar Box, invite chamber members to a Business After Hours event from 5 to 7...
View ArticleMan who threatened to jump from bridge found alive
RIVERSIDE - A Danville man who threatened on social media to jump from the Danville-Riverside bridge into the Susquehanna River was found alive. State police at Milton issued a press release shortly...
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