Pennsburg News

Marijuana possession charged: Kerry DelGoto, 21, of John Henry Drive in Sinking Springs, Berks County, was charged with possession of narcotics on June 18.

The Bethlehem Area School Board on Monday appointed Thomas E. Persing as a consultant and substitute superintendent.

The Bethlehem Area School Board plans Monday to hire an educator with a long history of helping financially and academically embattled schools as it transitions from Superintendent Joseph Lewis' administration.

Bethlehem Area School District school buses shown lined up in February. Bethlehem Area School Board has an interim plan for replacing Superintendent Joseph Lewis.

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Wilson Area School District officials got their first look Monday at construction bids for renovations to the middle school.

A 14-year-old violinist from Coopersburg won the Allentown Symphony Orchestra 's 54th Annual Voorhees Concerto Competition for young musicians.

Suppose they held an election and nobody showed up. As I predicted a couple of days ago, voter turnout for the May 19 Pennsylvania primary was going to be historically low.

Marcus Lingenfelter, East Stroudsburg University alumnus and vice president for university advancement at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, has been named a recipient of Omicron Delta Kappa's Eldridge W. Roark Jr.

A navy seal from Pennsylvania died while training near Keyport, Washington last week.

A Navy SEAL is dead in training in waters near Keyport, Wash. The Kitsap Sun says Chief Special Warfare Operator Eric F. Shellenberger was on a training dive early Thursday when he had trouble in the water and signaled for an emergency ascent.

T.H. Properties L.P., the Harleysville home builder that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy April 30 after abruptly ending operations, has asked for permission to allow its lenders to finance insurance coverage for its 12 projects in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

PENNSBURG, Pa. - May 6, 2009 - -- Pennsylvania state police say everything appears normal at the Upper Perkiomen High School in Montgomery County after the school was placed on lockdown Wednesday.

Two fire crews from Berks County helped battle flames in Montgomery County tonight.

When De Ann Mensch was laid off last month for the second time in a little over a year, she did not polish her resume.

It's never a good sign when you call your home builder and get a recording that the company's temporarily shutting down operations.

A Montgomery County, Pa. man is headed to trial on charges that he stole scrap metal from his employer last year.

Brody Kleckner, 8, a student at Mercy Special Learning Center, Allentown, holds a two-day old chick in the school's library, Wednesday, March 25, 2009.

LOOKING FOR Toddler bed and lift chair: Norma of Easton is looking for a toddler bed for her grandson.

Liberty Wire & Cable promoted James Blumhardt to vice president of sales for the eastern region, and named Kevin Peterman and Tom O'Hanlon commercial territory managers.