State: No record of tool cleaning by Shamokin dentist since June 2013
By Eric Scicchitano HARRISBURG - State investigators said there are no records to show if any dental tools had been sterilized after June 2013 at the office of a Shamokin dentist whose license was...
View ArticleNoteworthy: Tuesday, June 17, 2014
MCA free lunch program under wayMOUNT CARMEL - Mount Carmel Area School District will provide free lunch through July 25 to all children through its Summer Food Program. Lunch is held 11 a.m. to 12:30...
View ArticleAOAA has sold 1,125 passes, earned $46,775 so far this season
BURNSIDE - A total of 1,125 passes have been sold so far for access to Anthracite Outdoor Adventure Area, according to authority members at their meeting Monday night. The value of passes sold is...
View ArticlePolice: Northwestern worker was high on bath salts when crash occurred
SHAMOKIN — Police said a Mount Carmel man employed by Northwestern Human Services was high on a synthetic drug when he crashed along Route 54 in March, injuring two company clients. Chemical testing...
View ArticleLightning strike chases Danville area family
DANVILLE - Firefighters form four communities responded to a report of a lightning strike during the height of Monday night’s thunderstorms that rumbled across Northumberland and Montour counties. The...
View ArticleBarletta not for impeachment
U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta said Tuesday he doesn't favor impeaching President Barack Obama and isn't proposing or advocating the idea, even though he thinks the president has violated the Constitution...
View ArticleLightning damages fridge
DANVILLE - Firefighters form four communities responded to a report of a lightning strike during the height of Monday night's thunderstorms that rumbled across Northumberland and Montour counties.The...
View ArticleNoteworthy: Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Get Fresh Market debuts ThursdayDANVILLE - Geisinger-Shamokin Area Community Hospital will debut the Get Fresh Market, monthly, beginning Thursday, in the hospital cafeteria. The public is invited to...
View ArticleMilton man killed in motorcycle crash
HARTLEY TOWNSHIP - A Lamar motorcyclist was killed in a one-vehicle crash Monday evening on Route 192 near the RB Winter State Park.State police at Milton say Terry L. Stover, 67, was flown to Hershey...
View Article183 call department of health after Shamokin dentist suspended
SHAMOKIN - A city dentist's failure to follow procedures to sterilize dental tools used at his office has elicited 183 calls Monday and Tuesday to the Pennsylvania Department of Health, according to...
View ArticleDeadline passes for SCA to change its health plan
CATAWISSA R.R. - Southern Columbia Area School Board member Charlie Porter called the last negotiation session between the board and district teachers "disappointing.""We had tried very hard to...
View ArticleAnnual church festival set for this weekend
MOUNT CARMEL - Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, 47 S. Market St., will hold its annual festival at Fourth and Market streets from 6 to 11 p.m. Friday, featuring the Shoreliners, and from 5 to 10:30...
View ArticleSplit vote gives split roles for Northumberland County's new chief clerks
SUNBURY - A split vote of the Northumberland County Salary Board has split the job of the chief clerk, dividing the duties among two full-time employees in the commissioners' office until the end of...
View ArticlePolice: Northwestern Human Services employee was high when car crashed
SHAMOKIN - Police said a Mount Carmel man employed by Northwestern Human Services was high on a synthetic drug when he crashed along Route 54 in March, injuring two company clients.Chemical testing...
View ArticleMaryland teen who escaped from Northwestern waives charges
SHAMOKIN - The last man apprehended in relation to an August escape from Northwestern Academy waived his preliminary hearing in district court Tuesday.Sean D. Watson, 19, of Bowie, Md., waived charges...
View ArticleFriday deadline for vet tributes, parade registration for city's 150th...
SHAMOKIN - The deadline for veterans tributes and parade registration for Shamokin's 150th Anniversary celebration is Friday.Anyone interested in entering the parade - be it a float, marching unit,...
View ArticleMan pleads in call of nature crash
POTTSVILLE - Raymond S. Moyer III stopped to answer the call of nature in August in West Brunswick Township, and he admitted Wednesday in Schuylkill County Court that three crimes resulted from...
View ArticleYouth suicide prevention bill awaits gov's signature
HARRISBURG - A bill giving educators a greater role in preventing youth suicides has won final legislative approval.A key provision in Rep. Frank Farina's bill would require educators working with...
View ArticleNorthumberland Co. Prison warden: Staff was quick to react to suicide victim
SUNBURY - The county prison warden said Wednesday he doesn't expect protocol to change in the wake of Sunday night's inmate suicide. Prison staff acted quickly and properly before and after Cyrus...
View ArticleResident questions Mount Carmel Twp. supervisors
ATLAS - Should a township have to follow its own rules, when it comes to the ordinances it passes? That was the question that resident Rich Mychak asked the Mount Carmel Township Board of Supervisors...
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