Kistler News

School achievement rates are down for the 2007-2008 school year in both local and state levels.

Dr. Kistler Elementary School of the Wilkes-Barre Area School District had its annual sixth-grade academic awards program.

Monroe County Crime Stoppers is offering a cash reward for information that leads to the arrest of Edwin David Kistler.

Dr. Kistler Elementary School of the Wilkes-Barre Area School District had its annual sixth-grade academic awards program.

According to 4-H program assistant Sheena Haas, the objective of the activities is to get youth involved in 4-H. "The biggest hit is cake decorating, just because they get a snack at the end," she said.

They are America's greatest generation...World World II veterans, many of whom are now in their 80s and 90s.

A Mifflin County jury deliberated for twenty minutes on Thursday before convicting a Cumberland man of assault related charges stemming from two incidents with a female juvenile seven years ago.

“Why would she lie? Why would a 13-year-old girl make this up?”

' A Mifflin County jury deliberated for twenty minutes on Thursday before convicting a Cumberland man of assault related charges stemming from two incidents with a female juvenile seven years ago. via The Sentinel

“It's very exciting and I'm looking forward to seeing who's going to win.”

Luzerne County voters lined up early and ready to use the counties electronic voting systems. via PAHomepage.com

“The defendant argues that this bears directly on the credibility of the witness”

Prosecutors in the rape trial against former Penn State tailback Austin Scott have appealed the trial judge's rulings allowing evidence of the alleged victim's involvement in a separate sexual assault case to ... via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“July 2nd, 1863. Mr. Yankee: Your house is not torn up at all, compared with the way your Soldier did at Fredericksburg. I only killed one goose + took one pair stocking. Rebel.”

History buffs will want to check out every detail in the new Gettysburg Military Park Museum and Visitor Center. via The York Daily Record

“Certainly we wouldn't mind if he were doing more than that, but we're satisfied with the sentence.”

A New York gang member and Mill Hall resident alleged to have brought more than $2 million in cocaine and heroin into the region was sentenced to spend 10 to 20 years in state prison Tuesday.

Orlando 'OD' Diaz Jr. was given an aggregate sentence of 10 to 20 years by Centre County Judge Thomas King Kistler after the admitted drug dealer expressed his regret for the choices he'd made.

Diaz told the judge he is not the drug kingpin as portrayed by the media, but that he was a dealer and would rehabilitate himself. Read more

ALLENTOWN will conduct street sweeping in the following areas: Monday -- Club Avenue to Maxwell Street north of and including Union Boulevard; and Tuesday -- Maxwell Street to Catasauqua Avenue and north ... via The Morning Call

Custody center to get director soon A center designed to eliminate contact between parents during custody exchanges is expected to have a director by the end of this month. via Centre Daily Times

Bids for new visitors' side bleachers at Memorial Stadium and a pedestrian guide rail at Kistler Elementary were approved by the Wilkes-Barre Area School Board on Wednesday. via Times Leader

“Thanks to Will Taylor, an area businessman who donated over half the value of a property in Lewistown, we now have a home office.”

Dave Shenk of Newport doesn't just talk about the things he believes in, he does something about them. via Perry County Times

Lehigh County Commissioners have approved a measure that would create a bi-county health department for Lehigh and Northampton Counties. via WFMZ

“At this time of the year, we now have a tremendous number of people going into the doughnut hole”

When Maryann Shaw of Limerick was choosing a new Medicare drug plan, she was startled by the different prices that the official Medicare Web site gave her. via Philly.com

“The sentencing court failed to consider alternatives and failed to articulate proper reasons in support of its sentence of confinement for such and excessive period”

BELLEFONTE -- The new attorney for convicted murderer Josephy Ventura has filed an appeal in Centre County Court asking for a new trial and a reduction of his 20- to 40-year state prison sentence.

Ventura was convicted by a jury in September of killing 22-year-old Penn State student Michael Donahue, of Drums. Witnesses said Donahue was trying to break up an altercation in the former Club Love, in State College, when Ventura stabbed him in the early morning hours Feb. 17, 2006. Donahue died of the single stab wound two days later. Read more

Allentown's four-year-old Volunteer Medical Reserve Corps ran out of grant money a couple of months ago, but its members continue to donate their time to keep community members well and prepared for ... via The Morning Call