Paxinos News

The Bavarian Polka Band performed to round out the events at the Anthracite Heritage Festival of the Arts.

Route 487 in Paxinos, in Northumberland County, has been re-opened to traffic after being closed last night due to a police incident.

An 8-year-old boy playing with a lighter accidentally caused a fire Saturday that destroyed a barn, according to state police at Milton.

"I really wanted to ride horses and have fun with them so I asked my friend and came and just started vaulting," said Abigail Fobia of Paxinos.

Employees of State Correctional Institution-Coal Township will remember a colleague and friend through this year's Big House Benefit Run.

Gov. Tom Corbett, in defending his education funding proposal last spring, asked public school administrators and teachers statewide to consider taking a pay freeze, a move he said could save $400 million.

The state Department of Education spells out the numbers in making its case that it is the loss of federal stimulus money - not Gov.