Clinical trials offer options for cancer patients
WILKES-BARRE - Geisinger Health System is inviting cancer patients to participate in one of its 128 cancer treatment clinical trials available at its facilities. Geisinger has 114 open cancer treatment...
View ArticleLM arts council concert planned
HERNDON - Line Mountain Council for the Arts and Humanities will hold its annual concert, "Christmas Everywhere," a concert with a multicultural theme, at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9, at the Line Mountain...
View ArticleDistrict Court: Friday, November 23, 2012
SHAMOKIN - The following hearings took place Tuesday before Magisterial District Judge John Gembic III. Defendants ordered to appear for hearings on Monday, Dec. 31 in Northumberland County Court,...
View ArticleMount Carmel Township seeks solutions for constable costs
ATLAS - Mount Carmel Township is seeking solutions to lessen the impact of township police officers transporting prisoners to arraignments and preliminary hearings. Supervisors aren't too happy about...
View ArticleRelay for 2013 kicks off in Mount Carmel
ATLAS - The Mount Carmel Relay For Life held its kickoff event Thursday, Nov. 15, at Village Towne, Route 61.Attendees included cancer survivors, past Relay participants and many new faces. Survivors...
View ArticleNoteworthy: Friday, November 23, 2012
Santa parade on SaturdayASHLAND - The annual Santa parade and Ashland community Christmas tree lighting will be held Saturday. The parade will begin at 6 p.m. at 21st and Centre streets, move east on...
View ArticleCounty arts council to sponsor 'The Roads Family Christmas'
SHAMOKIN - Audiences will learn that 'all you need is love' when you are trying to find your place in the world, as young Abbey will do in "The Roads Family Christmas," premiering this weekend at the...
View ArticleUPCOMING OPPORTUNITIES: Coal Region Community
'An Ornamental Ordeal' SHAMOKIN - Coal City Revitalization will present "An Ornamental Ordeal" from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dec. 8 at the Shamokin-Coal Township Public Library. Children are invited to help...
View ArticleShamokin, Kulpmont churches offer free Thanksgiving meals
by justin strawser KULPMONT - Eighty-nine-year-old Leo Laurnaitis was the first in line to get a plate of turkey and trimmings at the third annual Thanksgiving Day meal at Holy Angels Church Thursday,...
View ArticlePrices go drop in the night
by justin strawser COAL TOWNSHIP Â- It was another hectic start to Black Friday shopping Thursday night at Wal-Mart Supercenter along Route 61 with a parking lot full of cars and store full of...
View Article'Small Business Saturday' spotlights 'little guy' retailers
COAL TOWNSHIP - Small businesses can get lost in the Black Friday frenzy and the price hacking of retail giants, which is why American Express is sponsoring Small Business Saturday across the nation...
View ArticleSaturday Spirit: Saturday, November 24, 2012
It's a good thing that there is no time limit when it comes to following in someone's footsteps. I was a quarter century into a journalism career before I switched to teaching nearly two decades after...
View ArticleNoteworthy: Saturday, November 24, 2012
Diabetes symposium setKULPMONT - LIFE Geisinger-Kulpmont and Geisinger-Shamokin Area Community Hospital will team up to sponsor a Diabetes Awareness Symposium from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday at the...
View ArticleAshland woman dies after car crashes into house
GILBERTON - A woman died after the car she was driving crashed into a house on Main Street, Route 4030, Friday afternoon. Denise M. Blashock, 58, of Ashland, was pronounced dead at the scene of the...
View ArticleSenior Citizen Action Centers Activities: Week of Nov. 26 to 30
Shamokin-Coal TownshipMonday - Morning cards and puzzles, 8:30 a.m.; yoga, 9:30 a.m.; walk a mile 10:30 a.m.; Wii bowling, and treadmill for those with doctor's slip.Tuesday - Morning cards, 8:30 a.m.;...
View ArticleMount Carmel Santa parade on new route
MOUNT CARMEL - The annual Santa Claus Parade - sponsored by the Mount Carmel Lions Club, the Mount Carmel Business Association and now the Mount Carmel Volunteer Fire Department - will be held at 5...
View ArticleFor the Record: Sunday, November 25, 2012
MarriagesPhillip James Kline to Kelani Jo Walter, both of 230 S. Second St., Shamokin. Issued Nov. 23, 2012.DivorcesMarjorie Ann Shuman, 50 Avery St., Springville, from Seth Shuman, 811 W. Walnut St.,...
View Article'The Roads' are 'weird,' and fun
SHAMOKIN - To borrow an adjective from the performance itself, "The Roads Family Christmas Musical Comedy" was, well, "weird."Not that weird is a bad thing. In fact, to quote Dad Roads, played by...
View Article38 county employees top $50,000 in salary
Salaries for 38 Northumberland County employees top $50,000 in 2012. Some rates, such as the district attorney, are set by state law.County common pleas court judges Robert B. Sacavage, William H....
View ArticleHealth care, raises boost budget $2M 11% tax increase set to keep county in...
SUNBURY - Northumberland County commissioners expect to stick to a long-range financial plan laid out earlier this year that would raise property taxes by 11 percent in 2013 to keep pace with...
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