Marion Heights News

MIKE STAUGAITIS/Staff Photo Mount Carmel Area High School's Field Day Queen will be crowned before the home track meet against Montoursville today.

A preliminary hearing for a former substitute teacher at Shamokin Area Middle/High School charged with sending numerous sexually graphic test messages to four female high school students last year has been continued for a third time.

Mount Carmel Area School Board passed a motion Thursday night to eliminate the kindergarten program next school year before later agreeing to operate the program with federal Title I funds so it won't be a financial burden on the district.

Dale P. Reigle to Carol Frances Hickman, both of 607 W. Spruce St., Shamokin. To be issued April 16, 2012.

Eric Scicchitano/Staff Photo Robert Martynowych of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources forestry division works to direct a controlled back burn initiated by firefighters to cut off the path of a brush fire Sunday afternoon in Mount Carmel Township Eric Scicchitano/Staff Photo James Hornberger Jr., left, and Jim Reed, both of ... (more)