Gratz News

Some road projects in Dauphin County funded with federal stimulus money have started.

CHEERS to HACC for giving free tuition to unemployed area residents who want to take classes and learn new skills.

The economy has forced Gratz College in Melrose Park to make some budget cuts. With the job market looking grim and showing few signs of turning around, now might not be such a bad time to be in college or graduate school -- preferably in a multiyear program, or at least until the unemployment rate declines and economists stop using the "R" word.

A masked man armed with a silver handgun held up a gas station Tuesday evening, hopped in his vehicle and drove 8.5 miles to Elizabethville, where he robbed a sandwich shop 15 minutes later.

A white male in his late teens or early 20s, 5-7 to 5-8, with a thin to average build and light colored hair robbed the Lisi's Convenience Store in the 200 block of W. Market St., Gratz, around 8:12 p.m. ...

Hundreds of people in Monroe County will soon be out of work. The Liz Claiborne Distribution Center near Mount Pocono will close in March, leaving 350 workers out of a job.

It was fair and cold in the area, where state police announced still another crackdown on illegal one-armed bandit slot machines.

St. Louis - Brooklyn Gratzer walked into the hospital meeting room Tuesday with her family.

A father and daughter from St. Clair who are both deaf have surgically implanted devices activated at Saint Louis University doctors' offices to allow them to hear.