The News-Item wins print quality award
HERSHEY - The News-Item has won first place in the under 25,000 circulation division for the America East 2013 Print Quality Contest.Judging involves the print quality of newspapers in six different...
View ArticleWhat is sequestration? What will it affect?
Days away, sequestration - the dramatic federal spending cuts - may seem like the crisis du jour for the gridlocked U.S. Congress, but the impact would be far-reaching, impacting everything from food...
View ArticleSession provides info on helping elderly, disabled
SUNBURY -Northumberland County Link to Aging and Disability Resources hosted a training session Feb. 7 at the Northumberland County Area Agency on Aging. Christina Clausi, Northumberland County's Link...
View ArticleFranklin & Marshall College
LANCASTER - Ian Fucci, of Gordon, made the dean's list for Franklin & Marshall College's fall 2012 semester. Fucci is a son of Paul and Elaine Fucci and is a graduate of North Schuykill...
View ArticleVNA to host hypnotist at dinner show
SHAMOKIN - VNA Health System will host a dinner show featuring master hypnotist Michael Blaine, Saturday, March 23, at Masser's Banquet Hall, Paxinos.The dinner show kicks off an important celebration...
View ArticleCollege News: Lauryn Leach
WINCHESTER, Va. - Lauryn Nicole Leach, a 2012 graduate of Our Lady of Lourdes Regional School, achieved dean's list status with a 3.75 grade point average for the 2012 fall semester at Shenadoah...
View ArticleNOTEWORTHY: Monday, February 25, 2013
Group Cares home repairsSHAMOKIN - Representatives of CSO Inc. will go door to door in the city Tuesday and place phone calls through March 11 seeking applications for free home repairs to be performed...
View ArticleLocal districts take action to ensure safety
Local school districts have all taken action of some sort in response to the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14.- Southern Columbia Area administration met with...
View ArticleSalvation Army had busy, successful Christmas season
COAL TOWNSHIP - This past holiday season was one of the busiest and most successful for the local Salvation Army.Judy Orner, social services director for the Army, gave her Christmas report during a...
View ArticleEye on expansion
THARPTOWN - Geisinger Health System saw a need to expand its Shamokin campus, and with a large elderly population in lower Northumberland County an ophthalmology clinic made sense. A retina specialist...
View ArticleEmpty Bowl fundraiser full of heart
CATIWISSA RR - Despite the name of the event at Southern Columbia Area High School Sunday, bowls were indeed filled to the brim with soup. And, with the students raising money for Manna for the Many,...
View ArticleWoman gets house arrest for conspiring to sell heroin
SUNBURY - "Choose your friends carefully."That was the advice offered by Northumberland County Judge Charles H. Saylor to Jordan Leigh Derck prior to sentencing the 24-year-old Shamokin woman Monday...
View ArticleBloom U. coach speaker at St. John's UCC men's club breakfast
SHAMOKIN - Eighty people attended the men's club breakfast on Saturday in the fellowship hall at St. John's United Church of Christ to hear guest speaker Danny Hale, head football coach of the...
View ArticleWoman to bear witness against co-defendant
SUNBURY - A Mount Carmel woman, who has agreed to testify against a co-defendant charged in an October strong-arm robbery of a Marion Heights woman, was sentenced Monday to 9 to 23 months in...
View ArticleNomination petitions filed
Nomination petitions filedSUNBURY - Nomination petitions for the following candidates in the primary election have been filed with the Northumberland County Board of Elections:Janice Hixson,...
View ArticleFormer Shamokin Area sub gets house arrest in sexting case
SUNBURY - A former substitute teacher at Shamokin Area School District charged almost a year ago with sending several sexually graphic text messages to four girls under the age of 18 was sentenced...
View ArticleWoman who robbed her grandfather gets jail time
SUNBURY - Melanie J. Guinther, who was originally charged with 36 criminal counts involving nine separate incidents, including a June robbery of her grandfather, was sentenced Monday to 8 to 23 months...
View ArticleSlavic performing arts heritage festival enters its fifth year in March
SHAMOKIN - Vincent Chesney will host the fifth annual Slavic performing arts heritage festival at 5 p.m. Monday, March 11, in the auditorium in Luzerne County Community College's Northumberland Center...
View ArticlePolice: Coal Township man victim of shooting in Hazleton
COAL TOWNSHIP - An unidentified township man, who was the victim of a non-lethal shooting in Hazleton Monday, was escorted by police from a Webster Street home and returned to the Luzerne County city,...
View ArticleSteppin' Out is starting up again March 19
ELYSBURG - A new season of Steppin' Out will begin Tuesday, March 19.Steppin' Out is a walk/jog/run program initiated in 2010 to engage women and girls 12 and older to become more fit and motivated to...
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