Lykens News

Details are sketchy of his service in the Civil War, but Edward G. Savage served in Company B of the 9 Pennsylvania.

Musical group Re-Creation will perform at Lykens Valley Campmeeting on Monday, July 13 at 7 p.m. In the early years of the 20th Century, John B. Kuntzelman prayed, sang and listened to a variety of Christian ministers each July at the Lykens Valley Campmeeting near this upper Dauphin County community.

State police say a woman was killed in a motorcycle crash in northern Dauphin County late Thursday.

State police used Tasers on four people to break up a fight early Sunday morning outside the Liberty Hose Company in Lykens.

An ambulance crew member talks to a woman as firefighters check out the damage to an SUV after it drove through a yard, crashed through a wrought-iron fence and hit the porch at 199 E. Main St., Newmanstown, at 1:41 p.m. yesterday.

The 3rd Annual Remington Ryde Bluegrass Festival will be held July 10 and 11 at the Mifflin County Youth Park in Reedsville This year the event will feature Grand Ole Opry star Rhonda Vincent & The Rage.

The Humane Society of Harrisburg Area has filed animal cruelty charges against a Dauphin County man who admits he put five newborn puppies in a trash can.

Two of the five beagle puppies who were found in a trash bag Tuesday morning in Lykens.

Another puppy that was abandoned in Northern Dauphin County has died. On Tuesday, trash collectors found five newborn puppies in a garbage can in Lykens.

Treated like trash. That's what the humane society says happened to four newborn puppies.

State police are investigating a report of an attempted child abduction in northern Dauphin County over the weekend.

At Monday's school board meeting, Cindy Naddeo presented the board with a plan developed by the teachers that would allow them to collaborate more to improve the implementation of the district's curriculum as well as give the students 15 additional minutes of instruction per day in reading and literacy.

LYKENS, Pa. -- Pennsylvania State Police are looking for a man they say sweet-talked a shop owner into accepting a fake $20 coin as payment for ice cream.

Larry "Rex" Welker, of Lykens, received the award for his years of work with his "scrap ministry." Welker has raised over $3,000 for local charities through aluminum can collections. He also founded the Lykens United Methodist Emergency Food Pantry.

The following reports were taken from information provided by area law enforcement agencies.

A special ceremony held Friday night at the Pennylsvania Farm Show Complex honored the men and women who make up the 2-104th General Support Aviation Battalion, set to deploy for Iraq.

Police say a Molotov cocktail attack in north-central Pennsylvania began with a dispute over a gold chain.

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.

More Pennsylvania municipalities are handing over police protection to state troopers to relieve their straining budgets.

A couple of new bands, at least to me, are out and about this week. On Saturday night, classic rockers Faded Daze will be at The Grove, 537 S. Market St., Selinsgrove, from 10-1. If the address sounds familiar, ...