AUBURN — The Schuylkill County Conservancy’s first maintenance project on the Schuylkill River Trail came with a pleasant surprise on Saturday, an official said. Read moreSchuylkill County Conservancy completes cleanup on Schuylkill River Trail 💬
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Blue Mountain High School has received national recognition for excellence in global education from EF High School Exchange Year. Read moreBlue Mountain High School receives recognition for efforts in student exchange program 💬
Geisinger St. Luke’s Wound Care Center in Orwigsburg is now open. The Center specializes in treating difficult to heal wounds caused by diabet… Read moreGeisinger St. Luke’s opens wound care center in Orwigsburg 💬
SUMMIT STATION — Smore Seager wore a hat of many colors Saturday at Schuylkill PrideFest on the Schuylkill County Fairgrounds. Read moreSchuylkill PrideFest: A place to be accepted for who you are 💬
A hitchhiking, sap-sucking menace many in Pennsylvania learned to loathe and squash in recent years won't appear in its winged adult form for … Read more'Keep them contained:' Spotted lanternflies returning with much of Pennsylvania under quarantine 💬
POTTSVILLE — Got an idea for an arts or entertainment venue? Read moreLaunch Pottsville offers $50,000 in start-up funds to new arts and entertainment venues 💬
Is "Bad Boys: Ride or Die" worth the ride? Rebecca Kivak and Joe Baress review the latest installment in the action-comedy franchise. 💬
Most of us are all too familiar with someone in our family or workplace who can be described as a hyperactive or high-energy person. I am sure… 💬
D-Day, June 6, 1944, couldn’t have come soon enough for Americans and their allies in Europe. 💬
According to the World Health Organization, about half of the world’s adult population has had a headache at least once in the past year. Prol… 💬
We’ve come to associate witches with the infamous trials in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692-93 — 332 years ago. 💬
How does "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga" measure up to its acclaimed predecessor? Rebecca Kivak and Joe Baress review the long-awaited prequel to "M… 💬
We’ve all heard it before: You should exercise to trim your waistline. Exercise to speed up your metabolism. Exercise to ... well, a lot of ph… 💬
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Time to be a Spanish explorer just by going to the wine store. 💬
At this time of year it's not an uncommon scene: Little League baseball players wheeze as they cross home plate and try to catch their breath.… 💬
Hawk Mountain Sanctuary celebrated its 90th anniversary last weekend with a reunion of wildlife conservationists from around the world — all g… 💬
Gardening has seen significant growth these past handful of years. There are people who strictly garden with outdoor plants and there are othe… 💬
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Affidavit: Branch talked about homicides to cellmate, on phone from prison
Hunter Biden’s lawyers have rested their defense case in the criminal trial of the president’s son, who’s accused of lying about his drug use … 💬
Schuylkill Haven Area High School juniors Allie Benulis and Anna Schaeffer were announced as recent winners of the PA Society for Biomedical R… 💬
A four-day election has shaken the European Union's parliament to its foundations. Hard right parties rocked ruling parties in France and Germ… 💬
FRACKVILLE — From atop the cogeneration plant at the John B. Rich Memorial Power Station, Alexander Brush gazes at a panorama of lush, green f… Read moreEND OF COGEN? Gov.'s plan could force closure of refuse plants, lawmakers, trade group say 💬
PINE GROVE — Students from Pottsville Area School District completed a one-of-a-kind program Friday, making the last of several trips in which… Read morePottsville Area students complete after-school nature, food program 💬
SUMMIT STATION — Smore Seager wore a hat of many colors Saturday at Schuylkill PrideFest on the Schuylkill County Fairgrounds. Read moreSchuylkill PrideFest: A place to be accepted for who you are 💬
POTTSVILLE — While Lamour C. Branch is in Schuylkill County Prison charged with the murders of Hunter Mock and Angelito Caraballo, the chargin… Read moreAffidavit: Branch talked about homicides to cellmate, on phone from prison 💬
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HERSHEY — Tri-Valley's Braedon Doyle knew serving up three runs to Delone Catholic to tie the game in the second inning of a PIAA Class AA qua… Read moreTri-Valley gets behind Doyle, advances to PIAA Class AA semifinal game 💬
SCHUYLKILL HAVEN — With the start of this year’s Schuylkill River Sojourn six days away, 200 paddlers have registered for the trip from Island… Read moreOUTDOORS: “The Living River” is theme of this year’s Schuylkill River Sojourn 💬
ALLENTOWN — The ball popped Talia Piragas' mitt as the final Tri-Valley batter swung and missed. Read moreOld Forge edges Tri-Valley in Class A softball quarterfinal 💬
ALLENTOWN — When it comes to the ‘student’ part of student-athlete, Marla Freiwald and her fellow Blue Mountain softball seniors have already … Read moreBlue Mountain dominates Pope John Paul II in PIAA Class 4A quarterfinal 💬
BLOOMSBURG — Williams Valley ran into a hot-hitting team Thursday in a PIAA softball Class AA second-round game at Bloomsburg University's Ken… Read moreWilliams Valley falls to hot-hitting BEA in AA softball quarterfinal 💬
SUNBURY — From its beginnings in Otsego Lake, New York, to Havre de Grace, Maryland, where it empties into the Chesapeake Bay, the longest riv… Read moreOUTDOORS: A world-class bass fishery is to be had on the Susquehanna River 💬
Republicans appear to be of two minds about mail voting as we approach the November General Election. Read moreRemember when voting by mail was uncontroversial?
In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, writing on behalf of the Continental Congress, proclaimed that all people have an inalie… Read moreEditorial: Americans are unhappier than ever. Two officials want to address that
Normally, a trial in the federal courthouse in Wilmington, Delaware, for lying about not being a drug addict on a form to buy a Colt Cobra .38… Read moreError and trial: Hunter Biden’s trial is not about his father
Pundits keep chirping about how voters want President Joe Biden to do something to bring prices down, particularly at the grocery store. Read moreEditorial: When it comes to taming inflation, the consumer — not the president — is king
Amazon sells its premier membership program with the slogan: “There’s more to Prime. A truckload more.” Read moreElected officials, regulators must protect the public interest in Amazon deal
The resegregation of America’s public schools has led to the same inequitable public education funding that prompted the 1954 U.S. Supreme Cou… Read more70 years after ‘Brown v. Board of Education,’ fair school funding is the only way to counter ongoing segregation
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