Your dream date to the prom stands you up at the last moment, and a girl you’ve barely thought of agrees to go. It might not have been what you thought you wanted, but darned if you don’t have a good time — and who knows, maybe a better time.
That was the story Wednesday, when Pat Benatar pulled out of her show at Bloomsburg Fair grandstand, only to be replaced by 1980s Jefferson Airplane legacy band Starship.
Pat Benatar, the 1980s hitmaker who was to headline Bloomsburg Fair grandstand tonight, has canceled, citing “an upper respiratory illness unrelated to COVID,” according to a statement from Benatar’s management.
Replacing Benatar will be Starship, the 1980s Jefferson Airplane offshoot band with singer Mickey Thomas, best known for the No. 1 gold hits “We Built This City” and “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us.”
The show starts at 8 p.m. There is no opening act.
Tickets for Starship are $22-$40, available at www.bloomsburgfair.com.
Christian roots-rocker Crowder’s show headlining Bloomsburg Fair’s grandstand Tuesday was outstanding because of the music he played — from booming, forceful rock to the intricate, subtle, bluegrass-tinged music for which he may be best known.
But what made his show even better was that, in a too-short 18-song, 90-minute set, Crowder and his excellent four-man band seemed to capture the virtual essence of every stage of a believer’s journey.
BLOOMSBURG —A tractor trailer driver who told police he was misled by GPS tried to turn from East Street onto College Hill Tuesday morning, taking out the traffic light at East Street’s intersection with Main Street at Lightstreet Road.
The traffic light that controls traffic heading north onto Route 487 and South on Route 11 from East Street was knocked over. It still functioned, changing color as the pole leaned against the truck.
BLOOMSBURG — Since winning “America’s Got Talent” in 2017, teen ventriloquist Darci Lynne has been giving voice to her puppets for the past four years.
But the not-so-secret element to Lynne’s success is her own voice — her singing voice, that is; a surprisingly strong talent that shone through her performance Monday headlining Bloomsburg Fair’s grandstand.
It should be no surprise that Lynn, who in two weeks turns 17, has made music part of her stage act: It was her “singing” puppets that helped win her “America’s Got Talent.”
County music hitmaker Jon Pardi frequently trades on his name being a homonym of “party.”
And his concert to open the grandstand shows at Bloomsburg Fair on Friday certainly had enough attendees to make the night a celebration (fair Grandstand Superintendent Brian Wawroski said the audience of 4,997 was the most ever for a first-Friday show at the fair).
But the party — and the Pardi — could have used more life.
Backed by a seven-member band, Pardi did many things right in his 19-song, 90-minute show.
A Danville Area Schools bus was hit head-on by a Dodge caravan along Rhoades Hill Road in Derry Township this afternoon, sending the van's drive to the hospital, state police said.
The bus was carrying 14 middle school students, but none was seriously injured, police said.
The van was driving westbound when it swerved into the bus' lane and collided head on with it, police said. The driver's identity wasn't immediately available.
After the crash, a passenger in the van fled into a cornfield and was being sought, police said.
SHICKSHINNY- Residents in the area woke to water woes Saturday morning as American Water began work on what they described as “Emergency Repairs.”
About 300 customers are affected according to Susan Turcmanovich, external affairs manager for American Water.
There is a water tanker set up outside Thomas Markets in Shickshinny, Turcmanovich said.
A 12-inch break in a line along Route 11 caused the problem, she said.
The issue affects Shickshinny Borough, Union, Plymouth and Hunlock Townships.
FOUNDRYVILLE — A home where firefighters had been repeatedly sent for alleged false alarms actually caught fire early Tuesday morning.
The blaze at 136 Foundryville Road appears to have been accidentally started, said Summerhill Assistant Fire Chief Harold Kern.
An alleged serial killer awaiting trial in the brutal murders of two Columbia County women now faces a third set of homicide charges.
Harold David Haulman III, 42, is the subject of an arrest warrant filed Monday by the Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office in Michigan, online court records show.
Haulman, 42, a long-haul truck driver, is in Luzerne County Prison without bail while awaiting trials for allegedly killing Erica Shultz, 26, of Bloomsburg and Tianna Ann Phillips, 25 of Berwick.
Haulman previously served time for bludgeoning a man to death in Germany.