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Published on January 24, 2025 - Page 1
BERWICK -- School directors here are considering a multi-million-dollar heating and air conditioning replacement for East Berwick Elementary after...
Published on January 24, 2025 - Page 1
ALMEDIA -- Central Columbia Middle School students were evacuated into the cold for about 10 minutes Wednesday after a leaking sprinkler caused the...
Published on January 24, 2025 - Page 1
The ice skating rink at Ber-Vaughn Park is open!
Berwick's newest -- and free -- attraction became available for the public around 9 a.m. Thursday...
Published on January 24, 2025 - Page 3
One of Danville's very own is competing in Hershey's Pennsylvania Fair Queen competition this week. Alyssa Bergenstock, 17, Danville, started with...
Published on January 24, 2025 - Page 3
SUGARLOAF -- An ex-state trooper fatally shot his former girlfriend's new boyfriend in an attack Tuesday night near the Conyngham/Nescopeck exit of...
Published on January 24, 2025 - Page 7
BERWICK -- The District 8 Band, made up of the top band students from Columbia, Montour, Bradford, Lycoming, Northumberland, Snyder, Sullivan, Tioga...
Published on January 24, 2025 - Page 8
"It's a winter wonderland in our region today. The Berwick ice rink is open, and in Eagles Mere, the fire company is starting construction on its...
Published on January 23, 2025 - Page 1
BRIAR CREEK TWP. -- Columbia-Montour Vo-Tech's principal quit without giving notice after working in the position for just 13 days, according to...
Published on January 23, 2025 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- Timothy Freeman transformed an unused cubicle into a makeshift bedroom after settling in for the night at AGAPE's Code Blue emergency...
Published on January 23, 2025 - Page 1
( EDITOR'S NOTE: Local historian Mark Fritz appeared on these pages in September 2023, when he told us the history of the Bloomsburg Sanitarium....
Published on January 23, 2025 - Page 1
DERRY TWP. -- State Police identified a Danville-area Amish couple and the driver of a car that struck their horse-drawn buggy, in which seven...
Published on January 23, 2025 - Page 3
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A day that began with the outgoing president's pardon of lawmakers and his own family ended with the incoming president's pardon...
Published on January 23, 2025 - Page 3
Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church in Slabtown will be putting on its Fifth Annual Frost Bite Festival on Saturday, Feb. 1 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m....
Published on January 23, 2025 - Page 3
Winter storms and wildfires have forced the American Red Cross to cancel hundreds of blood drives nationwide, leaving it behind on donations, the...
Published on January 23, 2025 - Page 4
BERWICK -- At least one coyote has been roaming in Berwick near Martzville Road for two nights, a borough official says.
A resident reported seeing a...
Published on January 23, 2025 - Page 4
Leena Reedy
Adam and Stephanie (Flexer) Reedy, Bloomsburg, are the parents of a daughter, Leena, born Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, at Geisinger-Bloomsburg...
Published on January 23, 2025 - Page 4
Commonwealth University Workforce Development has announced its spring 2025 training schedule with classes being held online or at an on-site...
Published on January 23, 2025 - Page 4
Police: Pedestrian hit vehicle's mirror
A pedestrian crossing Route 11 ran into the passenger mirror of a car on Dec. 13, according to a police...
Published on January 23, 2025 - Page 4
BLOOMSBURG -- Bingo will be held to support the Bloomsburg Lady Panthers softball team Sunday, Jan. 26, at the Bloomsburg Fire Hall.
The doors open...
Published on January 23, 2025 - Page 10
"The Siberian Express hit us hard on Wednesday. Temperatures around the area hit as low as -4 in Bloomsburg, -10 in Berwick and Benton, and -17 in...
Published on January 23, 2025 - Page 10
BLOOMSBURG -- On Sunday, Feb. 2, from 1-4 p.m., the Columbia-Montour Vo-Tech will be holding an open house for interested students and families.
The...
Published on January 22, 2025 - Page 1
CLEARFIELD -- Commonwealth University announced Tuesday it will close a branch of its Lock Haven campus in 2027.
The Clearfield branch, founded in...
Published on January 22, 2025 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- A Bloomsburg woman's idea for recycling a leftover Christmas tree is for the birds -- literally.
Lisa Ziller teamed up with neighbor...
Published on January 22, 2025 - Page 3
Sunday marks the anniversary of the death of one of Berwick's own as he tried to liberate Italy during World War II. Andrew Joseph Fraind was just...
Published on January 22, 2025 - Page 3
MADISON TOWNSHIP -- A man lost control of his pickup here Tuesday morning and went off Route 44 striking a utility pole, police said.
Hemlock...
Published on January 22, 2025 - Page 3
HEMLOCK TWP. -- A small fire broke out here Tuesday afternoon when a livestock water heater malfunctioned.
Buckhorn Community Fire Company was...
Published on January 22, 2025 - Page 3
MILLVILLE - Emmanuel Baptist Church, 1314 Route 254, is having a free movie night, Friday, at 7 p.m., showing "Courageous."
Published on January 22, 2025 - Page 3
BLOOMSBURG -- Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble will have two "pay what you decide" preview performances of "Misery" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday.
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Published on January 22, 2025 - Page 4
FRANKLIN TWP. -- Southern Columbia and Columbia-Montour Vo-Tech students aboard Bus 11 endured a cold ride to school Tuesday because six windows...
Published on January 22, 2025 - Page 8
"The Arctic's frigid air is continuing its unwelcome southern vacation today, pushing temperatures locally below zero last night. It's expected to...