Shamokin Area, OLOL lead after Week 4 of Stock Market Game
Shamokin Area keeps lead in Week 4 in high school division: OLOL takes the lead in middle school division Shamokin Area still holds the lead in the high school division, while Our Lady of Lourdes...
View ArticleCrashing pickup wakes Coal Run
COAL RUN - A resident of this tiny Coal Township village said her family was awakened Saturday morning by the sound of squealing tires and three "horrible" noises. The scene described by Prena Kolovic...
View ArticleHusband succumbs, marking third victim of Friday's crash
POINT TOWNSHIP - Police here said a third person has died as a result of Friday's three-vehicle crash along Route 11 near the intersection with Ridge Road. Derl Kieffer, 83, of Dornsife, died at 11...
View ArticleWhat are region's health care needs?
DANVILLE - Three key needs were identified in a Community Health Needs Assessment that covered a five-county area, including that served by Geisinger-Shamokin Area Community Hospital (G-SACH).A...
View Article$52M lab under way at Danville campus
DANVILLE - Ground was broken Thursday for a 115,000-square-foot, five-level Laboratory Medicine Building at Geisinger Medical Center (GMC). It will replace the current medical testing laboratories at...
View ArticleG-SACH one year after merger: With higher price, Geisinger strives for better...
Second of two parts COAL TOWNSHIP - Tom Harlow seemed to have taken a dose of bad medicine himself when asked if he had read Time magazine's recent special report, "Bitter Pill. Why Medical Bills Are...
View ArticleNoteworthy: Sunday, March 24, 2013
Candle pickup is TuesdayCOAL TOWNSHIP - The Shamokin Area Middle/High School PTSA Yankee Candle Fundraiser pickup will be from 2:30 to 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Shamokin Area High School Cafeteria.Legion...
View ArticleHeaviest area snow expected to fall this morning, afternoon
The sun was shining brightly Sunday morning and temperatures climbed into the mid-40s by early afternoon. But that could certainly be called the calm before the storm.The National Weather Service (NWS)...
View ArticleDistrict Court: March 25, 2013
The following landlord/tenant claims and judgments were filed in Magisterial District Court last week:Office of John Gembic III, Shamokin- Home Rentals Inc., of Shamokin, against Cynthia Hayes, of Coal...
View ArticleMemorials
Shamokin-Coal Township Public LibrarySHAMOKIN - The Shamokin Coal Township Public Library has announced that memorials for the period of Feb. 26 to March 18 have been presented for the following...
View ArticleNos'Trovia hosts dinner to benefit children's mission
COAL TOWNSHIP - Nos'Trovia will host a "murder mystery dinner" on April 6 to benefit Door of Hope, a children's mission group that tends to the needs of abandoned, abused and orphaned children in South...
View ArticleLiquor outcome could end a legacy MASSER RESPONDS TO VOTE
HARRISBURG - A groundbreaking vote in the House last week that approved a bill privatizing the state-run liquor system poses the greatest threat yet to the long-running experiment of a Pennsylvania...
View ArticleCigarette sparks Shamokin Twp. blaze
SHAMOKIN TOWNSHIP - A cigarette is to blame for causing extensive fire damage to the basement of an Irish Valley home near Cherry Street early Sunday morning, according to Stonington Fire Chief Kerry...
View ArticleSparking interest
BY LARRY DEKLINSKI SHAMOKIN - Gerald Bogetti told a room of local residential contractors and electricians Thursday evening that many homes in the area have substandard wiring and are at the risk of...
View ArticleNoteworthy: March 25, 2013
Patients will have room serviceDANVILLE - Patients at Geisinger Medical Center will be able to order what they want when they want it for meals. Beginning Tuesday, room service meals will be offered...
View ArticleCity police: Woman asks cop for dope
SHAMOKIN - A city woman was arrested Saturday morning after she stopped a police officer and asked for help in getting a fix of heroin.Arlina Alves, 49, of 142 E. Lincoln St., flagged down Patrolman...
View ArticleNoteworthy: Tuesday, March 26, 2013
No parking on Chestnut Street todayKULPMONT - There will be no parking from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. today on Chestnut Street because PennDOT is scheduled to sweep the street. Violators will be...
View ArticleOlympic gold medalist Gabby Douglas to speak at Bucknell
LEWISBURG - Olympic gold medalist Gabrielle "Gabby" Douglas will speak at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 2, in the Weis Center at Bucknell University.The event format will be a question-and-answer session,...
View ArticleInmate gets three to six years for assaulting guards
SUNBURY - A 22-year-old inmate, who was found not guilty by a jury last month of five of the six charges filed against him in connection with a 2010 assault of two correctional officers at SCI-Coal...
View ArticleDEP wants to intensify river study
HARRISBURG - The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has released a work plan outlining what it says are "intensive efforts" to continue studying and sampling dozens of locations in the...
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