Beavertown News

Bryce Shaffer, 5, of Freeburg, eyes his first pork and sauerkraut dinner as his dad, Brad, prepares to serve him at the Freeburg Fire Company on Thursday night.

New York City rings in the new year with a ball drop in Times Square. In Snyder County, one community has a mighty unique way of doing it.

By Tricia Pursell BEAVERTOWN - Lifelong Snyder County resident Nick Herbster will be leaving for a year-long stint in Korea on Friday.

Snyder County and a state trooper have been dismissed from a federal lawsuit that alleges a prisoner did not commit suicide but was murdered by guards and other inmates.

Prior to battle, the main actors, in the front row, observe Confederate troop movements.

The U. S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a five-year sentence imposed on a Lewistown man who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit a bank robbery.

The 12 winners of the Front Porch Country Band's "Christmas Once Upon A Time" album give-away have been announced.

Mifflinburg Area Senior High School on Friday night crowned Janelle Sheesley homecoming queen.

BETTLEYON, KENNETH G. "BEETLE," 78, of Westport. Visitation from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, and noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Joseph W. Epler Funeral Home, 210 King St., Northumberland, followed by funeral at 1. Burial with military honors in Riverview Cemetery, Northumberland.

HEY, HEY, he's a Monkee, and he's married, too. Yep, that's right. The former teen idol, Davy Jones, got married Aug.

Alana Kearns-Green, 24, of Los Angeles, sat with her legs tucked under her on a worn, but comfortable brown couch in her family's home in Beavertown.

Twenty-two young people and five sponsors from Beavertown God's Missionary Church loaded up on a 32-passenger coach and embarked on an eight-day mission experience to the Rosebud Indian Reservation in Mission, S.D., on July 12.

Not only was former state Rep. Reno H. Thomas a good politician, but he was an all-around good man, say local Republican supporters and friends.

Paul "Popeye" Saylor doesn't understand how some people can sit around and watch television all day.

Reliance Hose Company trucks lead the fireman's parade past thousands of spectators Thursday night toward the carnival in Middleburg.

Reliance Hose Company trucks lead the fireman's parade past thousands of spectators Thursday night toward the carnival in Middleburg.

Thelma E. Swab, 85, of Beavertown passed away at 8:30 p.m., Tuesday, July 28, 2009, at Brookline Manor, where she had been a resident since April.

FURMAN, MARGARET R., 63, of Sunbury. Visitation from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday and from 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday followed by funeral at 11, at Emmanuel Bible Fellowship Church, 967 Mile Hill Road, Sunbury.

Residents in the 500 and 600 blocks of East Market Street, from Schrader Street east to the Beavertown Borough line should boil their water, community officials advised Monday.

Bruce Lisle, right, of Bio Fuels explains the finer details of the manure buring boiler installed to William Clouser of the PA State Conservation Commission at Windview Farm in Union Township Monday June 22, 2009.