Orwigsburg News

Recent meetings of the Schuylkill County Commissioners that have featured clashes between the Commissioner Chair Mantura Gallagher and County Adminsitrator Darlene Dolzania on one side and Controller Melinda ...

It may seem a bit drastic, but more and more people are taking what is perhaps the ultimate step in cutting gas prices: They're moving.

A bomb squad from Fort Drum, N.Y., removed a Civil War-era artillery Saturday from the Historical Society of Schuylkill County.

After researching the feasibility of Tamaqua operating its own trash hauling business, Borough Council has decided to keep contracting it out.

Trucking companies are hard hit by the rising cost of diesel fuel. Some Schuylkill County companies tell The Republican & Herald newspaper in Pottsville the cost of fuel now exceeds their personnel costs.

One ticket matched all five numbers drawn in Saturday's - - Cash 5'' game and the holder will receive $125,000. Lottery officials also said 57 players matched four numbers and won $358 each; 2,037 players ...

A man who police said kidnapped his mother from a nursing home in Schuylkill County is now charged in connection with her death. via WNEP

A man who police said kidnapped his elderly mother from a Schuylkill County nursing home last month, leading to her death, was charged Friday with involuntary manslaughter. via The Morning Call

C.H. Briggs Co., one of the largest independently owned distributors of specialty building products in the country, has been named the exclusive distributor of CeeLite LEC Technology within all of Briggs ... via Reading Eagle/Reading Times

A Tamaqua man sits in Schuylkill County Prison after being charged with stabbing a man Tuesday morning during an argument. via Standard Speaker

A 22-year-old Schuylkill County man who complained of being frustrated with his children is in county prison today, accused of shaking his 6-week-old son so hard the baby is hospitalized in critical condition ... via The Morning Call

An Orwigsburg teenager was flown to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest yesterday after being hit by a car driven by another borough teenager. via The Morning Call

“It is obviously a great company, with a management team that is nationally renowned”

The major Coldwell Banker franchise covering Berks County and eight other counties in the region on Tuesday announced it has switched its affiliation to Prudential Real Estate Affiliates Inc. via Reading Eagle/Reading Times

“I don't know why they are asking her. She couldn't do her job, and that is why she was fired from the bank.”

The simmering clash of personalities between two of Schuylkill County's female county officials has boiled over into a law suit and a claim for monetary damages - $1 plus costs. via The Bud Angst Report

"We Feed the World" Three stars Not rated Directed by Erwin Wagenhofer Running time: 96 minutes Distributed by Bullfrog Films, Oley Venue: GoggleWorks Film Theater, Saturday and Sunday at noon. via Reading Eagle/Reading Times

The West Penn Township Planning Board has recommended approval of a 16-lot housing development on Millhead Road. via The Morning Call

Four teenagers -- one of whom is pregnant -- used two-way radios to communicate during a Sunday night break-in at Hometown Farmers Market in Rush Township, police say. They are accused of trying to take hundreds of DVDs and other merchandise.

Police say the radios even helped two of the teens briefly elude capture when the other teens, sitting in a car outside the market, warned the pair inside that officers were coming.

But all four were arrested in nearby Mahanoy City after police found numerous items stashed in duffel bags in the market and broadcast a description of the getaway car. Read more

“DBE fraud harms the integrity of the DBE program and law-abiding contractors, including many small businesses, by defeating efforts to ensure a level playing field in which all firms can compete fairly for contracts”

HARRISBURG, Pa- A guilty plea has been entered in connection with a 21-month multi-agency investigation of fraud involving the government's Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program. via TriStateNews.Com

A high-tech fraud scheme cost a Schuylkill County businessman more than $1,500. A woman phoned the Hess Mart gas station in Orwigsburg about 6 p.m. Jan. via The Morning Call

An elderly Berks County man is in critical condition after his pick-up truck hit two other vehicles on Route 61 in Schuylkill County, smacked a guardrail, struck a utility poll, rolled down an embankment, ... via WFMZ-TV Allentown