Noteworthy 8/7/12
MC Twp. plans National Night OutATLAS - Neighbors throughout Mount Carmel Township are invited to join forces with thousands of communities nationwide for the 29th annual National Night Out and Mount...
View Article3rd class city overhaul in the works
HARRISBURG - Modernization and not fiscal relief is the goal of a massive rewrite of state law governing Pennsylvania's third-class cities. Legislation moving through the Senate would overhaul the...
View ArticleClosure of Leck Kill may come this year Enrollment, teacher changes could...
MANDATA - Line Mountain School Board is set to decide the fate of Leck Kill and Dalmatia elementary schools later this month. They would close starting with the 2013-14 school year if a consolidation...
View ArticleDecember trial likely in bulldog case
SUNBURY - A tentative trial date has been set in the latest round of a lengthy legal battle over a champion French bulldog.Karen Robertson, of Paxinos RR 1, who filed a civil suit in Northumberland...
View ArticleAmerican Red Cross releases hurricane app
LEWISBURG - The American Red Cross and its SUN Area Chapter have launched their official Hurricane App, putting lifesaving information right in the hands of people who live in or who visit hurricane...
View ArticleC.T. fearing 'next flood' Creek walls, bridges in urgent need of repairs
COAL TOWNSHIP - It's been 11 months since the immediate coal region and a large swath of the East Coast were overwhelmed with record rainfall and subsequent flooding.The waters have long since receded,...
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NoteworthyCulver to host town hallSUNBURY - State Rep. Lynda Schlegel Culver, R-108, will host a town hall meeting Thursday at Degenstein Public Library, 40 S. Fifth St.Call Culver's Sunbury office at...
View ArticleResidents talk dirt, noise from Shamokin Filler
COAL TOWNSHIP - The coal business can be a dirty one, naturally, but several residents of Bear Valley Road say they are fed up with dirt and noise created at nearby Shamokin Filler Co. A co-owner of...
View ArticleWelch Art Studios, artists of all ages present Summer Student Art Exhibit
SHAMOKIN - Welch Art Studios is presenting its annual Summer Student Art Exhibit at the gallery inside the Northumberland County Career and Arts Center, Eighth and Arch streets, at no cost, now...
View ArticleCawley tours Bloom fairgrounds
BLOOMSURG - Lt. Gov. Jim Cawley reached to a sign posted at the high water mark of the wall of a restroom at the Bloomsburg Fair."I can barely touch it," Cawley said.The last time he toured the...
View ArticleDistrict Court: Friday August 10, 2012
MOUNT CARMEL - The following hearings took place Wednesday before Magisterial District Judge Hugh Jones. Defendants ordered to appear for plea court Sept. 24 at Northumberland County Court, Sunbury,...
View ArticleCookbook set for release
ELYSBURG - The Save the Ambulance Cookbook Committee, working to raise funds for the Elysburg Fire Company MICU, has announced its cookbook should be available by the end of August, just in time for...
View Article10 get raises, one declines
SUNBURY - Ten supervisors in the Northumberland County court system were granted between $2,000 and $3,000 salary increases, while one administrator declined an approximate $2,000 pay hike Thursday...
View ArticleSewer delinquency policy eased
WEIGH SCALES - There's a new collections policy in place for customers of the Shamokin-Coal Township Joint Sewer Authority, one the authority's newly hired general manager said was enacted to allow...
View ArticleDivine Redeemer
The following Memorials/donations have been presented to Divine Redeemer Church, Mount Carmel for July.Memorials/ donationsEdith and Reno Purin from daughters.Mary R. Kovach from Helen Pavis; Frank and...
View ArticleNoteworthy: Friday August 10, 2012
Movie in the park to be held Saturday ATLAS - The Atlas Fire Company Ladies Auxillary will host the second annual "Movie in the Park" at 8:30 p.m. Saturday at the Atlas Fire Company gazebo. Everyone...
View ArticleHEMAP revived after one year
HARRISBURG - Pennsylvania's program to help homeowners avert foreclosure is reopening after a year's hiatus, thanks to a deposit last week of millions of dollars from a multi-state legal...
View ArticlePipeline aimed at Northumberland County
A $1 billion pipeline transporting Marcellus and Utica shale gas may cut through Northumberland County. Inergy MidStreat L.P., UGI Energy Services Inc. and Capitol Energy Ventures Corp. are jointly...
View ArticleClarification: Woman not involved in incident
To clarify a story from Thursday's edition, headlined "Shamokin woman back in jail after allegedly trying to bite officer after chase": The story said that a second woman involved but not charged...
View ArticleShamokin slows Gilligbauer on plans for carports
SHAMOKIN - Robert Gilligbauer's plans to build a pair of enclosed carports on a lot outside his automotive repair garage are on indefinite hold by order of the city. Rick Bozza, code enforcement...
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