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Tuesday Dec 8 | Standard Speaker

Freeland property taxes will increase in 2010

Property taxes in Freeland Borough will increase under the municipality's proposed 2010 budget.

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Thu Dec 03, 2009

Reading Eagle/Reading Times

Boyer's closing Shoemakersville store

Boyer's Food Markets said Tuesday that it plans to close its store in Shoemakersville by the beginning of 2010.

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Tue Dec 01, 2009

Reading Eagle/Reading Times

Muhlenberg woman follows mother's, grandparents' leads, starts own business

Jennifer A. Werner makes intimate apparel under the Cookie brand. Her mother and grandparents started their own firm 25 years earlier.

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Mon Nov 23, 2009

WNEP

Book Store to Close in Schuylkill County

The only full-service book store in Schuylkill County will close sometime in January, leaving many readers in the Pottsville area out of luck.

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Sat Nov 21, 2009

Standard Speaker

2 execs charged in DOT scheme

Two top executives of the former Schuylkill Products Inc., Cressona, face federal charges after being indicted Thursday by a grand jury on 32 counts stemming from what prosecutors say was one of the largest frauds in U.S. Department of Transportation history.

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Fri Nov 20, 2009

PennLive.com

U.S. grand jury indicts 2 in $136 million roadwork fraud

The owners of a Schuylkill County road construction business were indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg, accused of what prosecutors called one of the largest fraud cases in U.S. Department of Transportation history.

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Tue Oct 06, 2009

Easton Express-Times

Easton Area High School's Brett Bartek and Jordan Abel of Freedom local District 11 golf qualifiers

Easton's Brett Bartek chips onto the green on the 7th hole at Riverview Country Club earlier this season.

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Sun Oct 04, 2009

MergeDigital

Police Blotter

MANHEIM TOWNSHIP Schuylkill County Police break up burglary ring suspected in 20 break-ins An investigation into 20 burglaries at stores, golf courses, fire companies and other commercial establishments in southern Schuylkill County since early August led to the arrest of three men this week.

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Fri Oct 02, 2009

Reading Eagle/Reading Times

Many of Berks County's unemployed at end of benefits rope

She also never thought she'd exhaust all 79 weeks of her unemployment compensation.

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Wed Sep 30, 2009

WNEP

Three Charged with Schuylkill County Burglaries

Three men suspected in a rash of business burglaries in Schuylkill County have been arrested.

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Department of Defense News

Face of Defense: Once a Medic, Always a Medic

For a flight medic here, notice of a medical evacuation mission starts the wheels turning in her mind, but then instinct takes over.

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Mon Sep 28, 2009

Reading Eagle/Reading Times

Ron Devlin's Kitchen Table: Destiny enriched centenarian's life with warm memories

Reading Eagle: Tim Leedy Among the memories treasured by Laura Kriner Kauffman, 100, a resident of Country Meadows Wyomissing who taught school for 50 years, is teaching in a one-room schoolhouse.

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Sat Sep 26, 2009

WNEP

Schuylkill Horses Surrendered Due to Neglet

On a farm in Schuylkill County, some horses are getting some much needed TLC. Five horses were taken in by the Equine Protection Network, a non-profit horse advocacy group after they were surrendered by their owner to state police.

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Wed Sep 09, 2009

Reading Eagle/Reading Times

Schuylkill County man charged with DUI in Route 222 crash in Spring Township in May

A Schuylkill County man waived a preliminary hearing Tuesday on charges he was under the influence of drugs when he drove his pickup truck the wrong way on Route 222 in Spring Township and caused a crash that injured himself and two other people.

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Thu Sep 03, 2009

MergeDigital

Side Dish

GREEKERS TO BE RAZED The South Bethlehem building that was home to Third Street Chicken and Ribs for more than 20 years, then became Greekers last winter, before recently changing to the Southside Burger Co., will be razed because of damage caused by a fire on Sunday.

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Wed Aug 19, 2009

The Morning Call

Police Blotter

DEER LAKE, Schuylkill County A 21-year-old Deer Lake man assaulted his girlfriend, only to compound the crime by attacking police officers who came to arrest him, according to state police at Schuylkill Haven.

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Mon Aug 17, 2009

Reading Eagle/Reading Times

Orwigsburg man hurt in leap from car in Hamburg, police say

A Schuylkill County man jumped out of a moving car on Route 61 near South Fourth Street in Hamburg and injured his head Saturday night, just hours after he fled the scene of an accident in Perry Township, police said.

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Mon Aug 03, 2009

Reading Eagle/Reading Times

Orwigsburg woman struck, killed by car in Deer Lake

A Schuylkill County woman was killed when she was hit by a car as she tried to walk across Route 61 near Deer Lake, state police said Sunday.

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Sun Aug 02, 2009

WNEP

Pedestrian Killed When Crossing Street

A woman was struck by a car and killed in Schuylkill County Police say it happened Saturday night on Route 61 in Deer Lake Borough.

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Wed Jul 29, 2009

WNEP-TV Moosic

Farmers: Rain is Good News, Bad News

All the rain this year is good news for some farmers but bad news for others. It all depends on what they are growing.

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