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Borough residents will have to dig deeper in their wallets in 2009 to wash dishes, take showers and flush their toilets due to a $15 hike in their quarterly sewer bills.

For many people in the developing world, clean water and adequate food are not easy to come by.

Every year Elmer Lazar of Frackville usually remarks that it will be the last DARE Mile he will participate in.

Condition update HEGINS - Two teenagers injured in a violent one-car crash in Hegins Township Wednesday afternoon remained hospitalized Thursday and police said charges may be filed against the driver at the ...

Stephanie Tarapchak, 39, of 1239 W. Centre St., Ashland, was charged by borough police with two counts of harassment for allegedly spitting in the faces of Rick White and Thomas Minnig at 1110 Centre St.

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Sponsored by Girardville PRIDE as part of the Upper Schuylkill Homecoming Weekend, the gathering officially ended the Labor Day celebration that included the ABA Mummers Parade in Ashland, "Savor the Flavors of ...

Three area residents completed the pre-deployment exercise Mojave Viper at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, while assigned to Company E, 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine ...

Charges are pending against a 17-year-old Trevorton male who allegedly drove a vehicle with a trailer to Comfort Brothers Auto Wreckers, 670 Comfort Road, and attempted to steal 1,200 pounds of copper wire ...

Ashland Good Shepherd news The 19th Sunday after Sunday worship service will be celebrated at 9 a.m. at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Ashland.

A Shenandoah woman was charged early Wednesday in the kidnapping and beating of a Hispanic man in the borough over the weekend, just two months after an illegal immigrant from Mexico was beaten to death in what ...

The big story was a ring of three young bandits who were terrorizing motorists on back roads.

Two-vehicle crash LOWER MAHANOY TOWNSHIP - No injuries were reported in a two-vehicle crash that occurred at 12:40 p.m. Saturday on Route 147, 344 feet west of Route 225 in Lower Mahanoy Township, according to ...

DUI charge STONINGTON - Trooper Marc Yemzow of state police at Stonington charged Michelle Marie Kent, 27, of 1635 W. Lynn St., Coal Township, with driving under the influence of alcohol and traffic violations ...

Ashland Spaghetti dinner A spaghetti and meatball dinner will be held from 3 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept.

Even though the waters were fast, the volunteers holding fishing nets at the finish line of the Ashland Recreation Committee's "Rec Regatta" had to wait a bit Sunday afternoon before the first rubber duckie ...

John Usalis, The News-Item's Ashland bureau chief and editor of Schuylkill Saturday, a weekly newspaper based in Ashland, was honored with this year's Schuylkill Conservation District 2008 Media Conservation ...

As Mayor Dennis Kane walked in Saturday's ABA Mummers Parade, he looked at reporter and shouted, "I love a parade! You can quote me on it!" Kane received no disagreement from the large number of people who ...

Bethany EC news Bethany Evangelical Congregational Church in Ashland announced the following Sunday service schedule: 9 a.m. - Sunday school.

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