Schaefferstown News

The Batdorf Restaurant, 245 W. Main St., Annville, was cited with r a loud speaker violation, operating in a noisy or disorderly manner, and selling, furnishing or giving alcoholic beverages to a visibly intoxicated patron, police said.

"He's seen his shadow," Grundsau Lodsch 17 hauptman, or president, Robert Schoener announced at 8:13 a.m. Thursday, just moments after the lodge's lovable, though stiff, groundhog mascot Uni, standing at attention and holding an American flag in his canal boat, was hoisted out of the rapids of Tulpehocken Creek by his handlers.

Sgt. Paul Gaspich spoke to the Heidelberg Township supervisors on Tuesday night, announcing that troopers stationed at the Jonestown barracks had arrested a record 287 impaired drivers during the year.

The Elco school board on Monday night heard pleas from a packed house of former students to save the Emergency Medical Technician certification class at Elco High School.

Contractors building the Route 501bypass in Heidelberg Township will stay busy this winter so the project doesn't "bog" down.