Sugarloaf News

Font size: [A] [A] [A] A project to improve traffic-light performance and technology is a great example of how hard-pressed local governments can innovate to cut costs while maintaining vital services as the economy struggles to find firm footing for recovery.

Shenandoah bar burglary probed Someone broke into the M&T Bar in Shenandoah at 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, stealing the cash register and bottles of alcohol, state police at Frackville said.

Dec. 31--Hazleton City Authority board members will implore the help of its ratepayers to halt the potential sale of the area's largest public water authority.

Sugarloaf Township supervisors unanimously approved the 2010 budget Wednesday morning.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] Enrollment at Hazleton Area schools could increase by 1,800 to 2,900 students over the next eight years, and district officials plan to meet with architects and discuss local population trends as early as January, according to a report released by the school board.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] share this An H1N1 vaccine clinic for students in the Crestwood School District will be held Monday from 5 to 8 p.m. in the cafeteria of the high school on Route 309 in Wright Township.

No injuries in Interstate 80 crash No injuries were reported in a two-vehicle accident involving a tractor trailer and a car Friday morning on Interstate 80 in Sugarloaf Township.

ELLEN O'CONNELL/Staff Photographer Friends and family attend Tuesday's fundraiser for Cindy Corra at the Sugarloaf Township home of Albert and Jackie Wolk.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] share this An article in Wednesday's edition that mentioned the Eckley Players listed an incorrect date for the Conyngham Valley Historical Society's 2009 Christmas Home Tour.

ERIC CONOVER/Staff Photographer Workmen from Lloyd Construction and Remodeling make repairs Thursday to a home at 134 Rhedwood Ave.

A Sugarloaf Township man used his computer to collect images and videos of children engaged in sexual acts, police allege in arrest papers.

Ray Kapes fought the heat as he dragged his doe out of the woods near Nescopeck State Park on Monday morning.

A Christmas tree shaped as a Victorian woman donning a wide-brim hat and parasol is dotted by twinkling white lights, poinsettias and beads.

Warrant issued for McAdoo man McAdoo police said a warrant has been issued for James Doyle, 34, of East Blaine Street, on charges he beat Kristiann Gallagher, 40, his live-in girlfriend, during a domestic incident at midnight Nov.

A burglary at Penn State Hazleton may have put the identity of nearly 350 staff and faculty at risk.

HARRISBURG Gov. Edward G. Rendell has announced the awarding of $2.2 million in sewage facilities enforcement grants to 281 local agencies to reimburse costs associated with permitting on-lot sewage systems during 2008.

Lewis E. Crawley had been the subject of a protection-from-abuse order and probation, records show.

Three people who contested a convenience store chain's application to deviate from the Sugarloaf Township zoning ordinance have filed an appeal.

Relieved adults soothed screaming, crying children getting the H1N1 vaccination at a clinic at the Laurel Mall on Friday.

BUTLER TWP. Township police reported the following: Thomas Alfred Price, 52, of Hazleton, was charged with driving a motorcycle at a high rate of speed and having no insurance.