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Published on January 14, 2025 - Page 1
SOUTH CENTRE TWP. -- The driver of a car that ended up in a ditch here Monday evening claimed he was brake-checked, police said.
According to South...
Published on January 14, 2025 - Page 1
SHICKSHINNY — After a century of hiding behind a World War I-era poster, a mysterious, hand-drawn 1916 portrait of Bloomsburg resident Hazel Hack has...
Published on January 14, 2025 - Page 3
History Buffs, a group of local history enthusiasts, is going into hibernation through the cold winter months up north due to unpredictable travel...
Published on January 14, 2025 - Page 3
BLOOMSBURG -- Nine years ago today, Steven Whitenight Jr. went missing.
He parked his car near the East Bloomsburg Bridge early on a Thursday...
Published on January 14, 2025 - Page 4
Friends of Beverley Hunsinger are asked to send her get-well cards.
They will reach her at 485 Country Lane West, Orangeville, PA 17859. EDITOR'S...
Published on January 14, 2025 - Page 8
"With January nearly halfway over, we can expect more frigid air on the horizon.
"Today it is going to be cloudy, and windy. There might be some...
Published on January 14, 2025 - Page 14
LEWISBURG -- The spring 2025 season at the Weis Center for the Performing Arts includes 10 professional performances -- including world music,...
Published on January 13, 2025 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- The town police chief said this week it appears Block Party -- the annual, unsanctioned student bash -- will coincide with Renaissance...
Published on January 13, 2025 - Page 1
RUPERT -- Montour Township will take the first step to rebuilding its police department by advertising for new officers, supervisors decided Thursday...
Published on January 13, 2025 - Page 1
CATAWISSA TWP. -- Settlement of litigation concerning a badly paved roadway bolsters Catawissa Township's finances this year, along with a state...
Published on January 13, 2025 - Page 3
During a meeting Jan. 6, Bloomsburg Fire Chief Scott McBride presented Town Council with Bloomsburg Fire Department's year-end summary.
Members...
Published on January 13, 2025 - Page 3
Lynn chairman, Whelan vice chairman
Bill Lynn was unanimously elected chairman for the Mahoning Township board of supervisors and John Whelan was...
Published on January 13, 2025 - Page 8
"Enjoy today's weather, which is expected to peak at 39 degrees. It's the warmest it's expected to get all week. Tomorrow will be sharply colder, and...
Published on January 12, 2025 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- The town's Administrative and Finance Committee Wednesday gave Town Manager Lisa Dooley approval to internally seek candidates for the...
Published on January 12, 2025 - Page 1
MAHONING TWP. -- The township supervisors unanimously approved a pay increase Monday but they will have to first be reelected to receive it.
On Dec....
Published on January 12, 2025 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- The Bloomsburg Fair will have someone new overseeing its grandstand -- and auto racetrack -- this year.
Newcomer Jonathan Wolfe, 41,...
Published on January 12, 2025 - Page 8
"Today should be warmer than it's been in a while, with temperatures expected to top out at 37 degrees, and stay above freezing from late morning to...
Published on January 11, 2025 - Page 1
BERWICK -- Berwick is getting its ice skating rink -- now it just needs the weather to cooperate.
Council members at Monday night's meeting...
Published on January 11, 2025 - Page 1
BERWICK -- As of 9 p.m. Friday, three people had signed in to spend the night at the new emergency homeless shelter here, and another was on the way...
Published on January 11, 2025 - Page 1
BUCKHORN -- A woman has been hospitalized after her SUV jumped the curb and crashed into a steel pole off Route 42 near its intersection with Route...
Published on January 11, 2025 - Page 3
Press Enterprise Editor
DANVILLE -- Richard "Dick" Gearhart, 94, of Catawissa, died Friday.
He was a social studies and history teacher in the...
Published on January 11, 2025 - Page 8
"You may be waking up to a light coating of snow. Forecasts had anywhere from a coating to an inch falling across the area early this morning.
"It's...
Published on January 10, 2025 - Page 1
LIME RIDGE -- Central Columbia may start school a week earlier in August if a calendar proposed by the superintendent is approved by the school board...
Published on January 10, 2025 - Page 1
ESPY -- A dog is dead, a cat missing and three people are displaced after an apartment building caught fire here late Thursday afternoon.
Tenant...
Published on January 10, 2025 - Page 1
WILBURTON NO. 2 -- A shouting match over an open seat on the sewer board marked the new year's first meeting of the Conyngham Township supervisors....
Published on January 10, 2025 - Page 1
BUCKHORN -- Hemlock Township supervisors Monday decided to keep the board's leadership the same for this year.
Mark Morrow will remain chairman and...
Published on January 10, 2025 - Page 3
A notable millionaire geneticist with local ties passed away over the Christmas holiday. William Thilly, 79, who grew up in Rush Township, was a...
Published on January 10, 2025 - Page 3
BERWICK -- Borough Manager Damien Scoblink has declared this borough's first Code Blue, allowing homeless people to spend the night in the new...
Published on January 10, 2025 - Page 3
HEMLOCK TWP. -- Both drivers were left with minor injuries in a two-vehicle collision Wednesday night along Millville Road at Ebner Drive here,...
Published on January 10, 2025 - Page 8
"The images coming from the wildfires raging around Los Angeles are apocalyptic, but it's hard to appreciate their scale. Here's one way of imagining...