Northampton News

Saturday morning Northampton residents awoke to a winter scene out their windows.

No one was hurt in an industrial fire this morning on Smith Lane in Northampton , borough fire Capt.

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A review and update to the document that guides future policies and land uses of the Northampton County for the next 20 years has begun, and input is being sought.

It's the last day of January and there still hasn't been much snow this winter. Forecasts have temperatures in the mid 50s today and not dropping significantly until the weekend.

Four of them were killed in Philadelphia, including a 5-year-old boy and a 23-year-old motorcycle rider.

Officials found gun ammunition and women's underwear in former Northampton building official Mark Cline's county vehicle after he lost his job for lending the car to his mistress.

True to his word , Board of Supervisors Chairman Frank Rothermel held a long public comment session at the beginning of the meeting Wednesday evening.

Only a week remains to earn your angel wings in The Morning Call's Be an Angel campaign.

Skurla was born in Duluth in 1956 and attended Catholic and public schools here before earning a bachelor's degree from Columbia University in New York.

A former Onancock computer store owner who was convicted last year in Northampton County of having illegal contact with a teenage boy was found guilty last week in Accomack Circuit Court of possessing child pornography.

Ahavia Lavana's Facebook page states: "I am the Mother of all things and all things should wear a sweater in winter and sunscreen in summer." She's a Jewish Quaker lesbian mother with musical tastes that run from folk-duo Trout Fishing in America to rapper Eminem, with a life story that could be a best-selling book.

For many years both Accomack and Northampton counties paid their citizens to kill the pesky animals that preyed on the crops and livestock of the rural Eastern Shore.

At their January 7 banquet in State College, the National Wild Turkey Federation and its local chapter honored Northampton resident Katrina Skrapits for her work and dedication in preserving wild turkeys, their habitat and for her involvement with the local Women in the Outdoors program.