Middleburg News

Valley has donated $1.2M in 22 years By Marcia Moore SUNBURY - Seven years after Melvin and Florine Beachel took their infant niece into their home, they're still hoping to adopt the now 8-year-old child they call "daughter." But over the years, the Beachels, of Mifflinburg, have fallen on hard times and they've been unable to come up with the $700 ...

A Selinsgrove man was arrested Nov. 20 by Middleburg Police, and charged with stealing more than $9,000 from his employer, Troutman's Meat Market, in Middleburg.

A fire destroyed a mobile home late Tuesday, leaving two people homeless, but unharmed.

A New Columbia man, who pleaded guilty in September to vehicular homicide while driving under the influence, will spend 3A1 2 to 10 years in prison.

To Vice President Joe Biden, a Middleburg-grown Fraser Fir will be the perfect Christmas tree for his home this holiday season.

A New Columbia man, who pleaded guilty in September to vehicular homicide while driving under the influence, will spend 3A1 2 to 10 years in prison.

The operator of a no-kill animal shelter near Sunbury is furious after receiving two mistreated dogs that had been dumped in the country.

After two decades presiding on the bench in Snyder County Court, President Judge Harold F. Woelfel Jr.

A surge in troop strength in Afghanistan would have the same positive effect as the surge in Iraq, a 21-year-old Middleburg soldier said Tuesday from Forward Operating Base Sharanah in eastern Afghanistan.

Often one of the last companies to be called on in an emergency occurring only a mile or two down the road from their station, members of the Richfield Fire Company approached the Snyder County commissioners on Tuesday to express their frustration with what they believe to be inefficient dispatch practices at the county 911 center.

Fire destroyed a Richfield barn and its contents Monday. No one was hurt in the 7:25 a.m. blaze at 314 Main St., according to Kevin Gearhart, assistant chief of the Richfield Fire Company.

A cemetery at the south end of the village has served as a sacred reminder of those living in the area for the past couple of hundred years.

ThereA A s plenty of good live music out in the Valley this weekend, from Danville to Lewisburg to Middleburg and Selinsgrove.

It was an interesting weekend in Middleburg where a 1,300 pound bull ran loose for hours right through neighborhoods.

A convicted sex offender on Pennsylvania's Megan's Law list has been accused of molesting four girls, ages 5-10, over a two-year-period. John Garman Shirk, 61, of 25 Pine Ridge Lane, Center Township, told police he took two 5-year-old girls on a tractor ride in a field at 6 p.m. Sept.

Despite a spat of unseasonably cold and wet weather last week, representatives from Community Partnerships RC&D said the 2009 Arts Awards Ceremony was well attended.

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BETTLEYON, KENNETH G. "BEETLE," 78, of Westport. Visitation from 7 to 9 p.m. today and noon to 1 Wednesday at Joseph W. Epler Funeral Home, 210 King St., Northumberland, followed by funeral at 1. Burial with military honors in Riverview Cemetery, Northumberland.

While doses of the swine flu vaccine began arriving at health care providers around the country Monday, some Valley parents may have a difficult time convincing their children to get the shots.

Dazed and seriously injured, a Union County teen tried to use a cell phone to summon help to the scene of a crash in the Bald Eagle State Forest that killed his father, his father's fiance and her 9-year-old son.