Orwigsburg News

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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