Kulpmont News

The Mount Carmel Area Board of Education Merit Award winners for April were announced at the May 17 school board meeting.

Two Shamokin area men have been charged with breaking into a home on South Vine Street early Monday morning and assaulting two of the occupants.

Larry Deklinski/Staff Photo Members of the Nolan's 10-and-under Mount Carmel Area softball team waive American flags during the Kulpmont Memorial Day parade Monday.

Tyler M. Gidaro, of Kulpmont, was named to the dean's list at Penn State University Campus in State College during the Spring 2012 semester with a 3.60 grade point average and a cumulative 3.64 GPA.

Dobson's will showcase Smartstrand Silk, a new product from Mohawk. It will roll out a 12-by-20-foot piece of the carpet in the street during the festival for people to walk on all day to demonstrate the durability and stain resistance of the product.

The president of Mount Carmel Area School Board and former mayor of Kulpmont was appointed by Northumberland County commissioners Tuesday to serve on the SEDA-COG Board of Directors.

Rob Wheary/Staff Photo The bar in the new social hall of the East End Fire Company No.

Participants are asked to meet at American Legion Post 231, 856 Ash St., at 9 a.m. A King Coal Tours motorcoach will transport the group to the Veterans of Foreign Wars post home at 823 Chestnut St., for initial pickup and then proceed to St.

Fifteen customers were without natural gas service Friday when a contractor working on a waterline project along Route 61 in front of DaVita Dialysis hit a line and dislodged it from a main service line that feeds much of the area.

A dozen local students of the practical nursing program at Central Susquehanna LPN Career Center achieved academic honors for the spring semester.

Mount Carmel Township Board of Supervisors appointed another attorney to advise police in a lawsuit involving a neighboring borough to avoid a conflict of interest for the township's solicitor, who is the plaintiff's attorney.

The following hearings took place Wednesday before Magisterial District Judge Hugh Jones.

Senior Student of the month is Tyler Hodge, a son of Donna and Marlin Hodge, of Kulpmont.

Charges unrelated to arson are expected to be filed against a tenant who police believe may have provided false reports about the three-alarm fire that heavily damaged an apartment building at Sunbury and Washington streets early Thursday.

Rob Wheary/Staff Photo Steve Motyka, left, takes the oath of office Tuesday, becoming the newest member of Kulpmont Borough Council.