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Coal Region Canary
- Local
Walmart Spark Driver Busted for Allegedly Stealing Apple Watches
Hannon Gets 17½-35 Years for Kelayres Bombing
Conflicting Policies Causes Blue Mountain to Reverse Decision on Class Rank
Power Outages Reported Following Snowstorm in Schuylkill County
Pottsville, Black Rock Brewing Seemingly and Unexpectedly Reach Accord
- News
Walmart Spark Driver Busted for Allegedly Stealing Apple Watches
Hannon Gets 17½-35 Years for Kelayres Bombing
Conflicting Policies Causes Blue Mountain to Reverse Decision on Class Rank
Power Outages Reported Following Snowstorm in Schuylkill County
Pottsville, Black Rock Brewing Seemingly and Unexpectedly Reach Accord
- Business
Saint Clair Walmart Celebrates Grand Reopening
Ethereal Hair Studio Opens in Pottsville
Burrito Cut to Celebrate Opening of Onvo Travel Plaza at Highridge Business Park
The Farm Store Wins Ignite Schuylkill Business Competition, $100K in Startup Capital
Pottsville Pizzeria Ready for 75th Anniversary Celebration
- Crime
- Weather
- Obituaries
Michael W. Brennan Jr., 53 – Social Club Manager at Tower City Fire Co.
Carolyn Carroll, 82 – Went to High School with Chubby Checker
🇺🇸 Stanley P. Brozana Jr., 72 – Served 37 Years as Orwigsburg Police Chief
Alberta “Dolly” Eye, 100 – Active in Girardville Community
🇺🇸 Robert Donton, 75 – Awarded Bronze Star for Heroism
- State
Trump Shot at Pennsylvania Rally: 2 Dead (including the shooter) and 2 Critically Injured
Members of Deadly “Fentanyl Robbery Gang” Indicted by Federal Grand July
Roman’s Law for Autistic Students Passes PA Senate
State Senate Bill Would Limit “Vexatious” Right-to-Know Requests
It’s Now Illegal to Use Hand-held Devices While Driving in Pennsylvania
- Sports
Nahas Gets 2 Wins in Consecutive Outings; Blankenhorn Drives in Run vs. Phillies
Evitts Has Big Night in Rattlers Romp Over Strike Force
Source: Blankenhorn Being Promoted to Nationals
Blankenhorn Cracks 5 Homers in Series Against Lehigh Valley; Nahas Earns Second Win
Schuylkill Haven Grad Kicking for Playoff-bound Arizona Rattlers in IFL
Local Weather
A Walmart Spark driver is facing a felony retail theft charge after she allegedly stole a pair of Apple Watch devices recently. According to...
Schuylkill County Court News
Victim: "I don't forgive you and never will."
Schuylkill County News
Two policies required different results to adopt, amend, or repeal policy, the board says.
Schuylkill County News
Tremont and West Mahanoy Township reporting the most outages.
Local Community News
Schuylkill Reach, an overdose awareness and support group, is hosting a Walk for Recovery this Saturday in Schuylkill Haven. The event starts with registration...
Schuylkill County News
A Port Carbon man was seriously injured in a motorcycle crash in the borough late last week. According to information from State Police in...
2020 Election
Pennsylvania State Sen. Dave Argall says Acting Secretary of the Commonwealth Veronica Degraffenreid ducked a key committee hearing he presided over regarding election reform. He...
Local Community News
The history of immigration at Ellis Island will be the focus of a discussion at Schuylkill County Historical Society tonight. Historical researcher and writer...
PA News
A Democrat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives wants men to undergo mandatory vasectomies at age 40 or after they’ve had 3 children. Rep....
Obituaries Index
Here are the latest coal region obituaries. Obituaries are collected from funeral homes around Schuylkill County. Follow the links to see the full obituaries...
Schuylkill County News
A homeless Minersville man is accused of having sexual encounters with a 15-year-old girl. According to court papers filed Tuesday, police picked up 20-year-old...
Schuylkill County News
From the beginning of the COVID pandemic, Democrats at the federal, state, and local levels have screamed against politicizing the virus. Of course, it’s usually...
Schuylkill County News
A Schuylkill County woman is in prison after a rowdy incident in late September. According to information from State Police in Schuylkill Haven, they...
Obituaries Index
Here are the latest coal region obituaries. Obituaries are collected from funeral homes around Schuylkill County. Follow the links to see the full obituaries...
Schuylkill County News
A Schuylkill County woman is currently in prison after police say she stabbed her boyfriend in the leg with a steak knife. According to...
Local Community News
Good Intent Fire Co. in Pottsville celebrated its 175th anniversary on Saturday with a raucous and circuitous lights and sirens parade all over the...
Schuylkill County News
A Mount Carmel doctor recently pleaded guilty to operating deadly pill mills out of his offices there and in Shamokin. Raymond Kraynak, 64, admitted...
Obituaries Index
Here are the latest coal region obituaries. Obituaries are collected from funeral homes around Schuylkill County. Follow the links to see the full...
Schuylkill County News
Schools in Schuylkill County apparently aren’t immune to the Devious Licks Challenge. It’s the latest stupid trend on TikTok featuring short videos of kids...
Obituaries Index
Here are the latest coal region obituaries. Obituaries are collected from funeral homes around Schuylkill County. Follow the links to see the full obituaries...
Local Community News
Feels like it was just blazing hot from the summer sun but the peak of Fall foliage season is only about 3 weeks away....
Coronavirus in Pennsylvania
We’re coming up on a month of the state’s face mask mandate being enforced at most Schuylkill County schools. The mandate went into effect...
Schuylkill County Me Too
If you’re anxiously awaiting the civil trial to begin in the Schuylkill County sexual harassment case, you’re likely to be disappointed in this news....
Schuylkill County News
Police have identified the man who died in a motorcycle crash on Route 901 last week in Schuylkill County. They say 20-year-old Gregory Calkins,...
Schuylkill County News
The GIANT supermarket at the Cressona Mall is once again restricting how many rolls of toilet paper and paper towels customers can buy. If...
Schuylkill County News
A flasher is apparently on the loose in Norwegian Township. According to a report from Pennsylvania Crime Stoppers, State Police in Schuylkill Haven are...
Schuylkill County Man
A Schuylkill County man was arrested last week for allegedly trying to run down a family in a Walmart parking lot in a dispute...
Patrick Murphy Murder Case - The Latest
Megan Hall, the woman accused of killing Pottsville businessman Pat Murphy back in 2019, is now starring in a new Netflix series called...
Coal Region Consumer
A Girardville man is out more than $4,000 in a gift card scam where he thought he was giving money to his boss. According...
Schuylkill County News
UPDATE: Pottsville Man Died in Motorcycle Crash Last Week on Route 901 A motorcyclist died Thursday evening in a collision with a tractor-trailer along Route...
Schuylkill County News
State Police say they’re looking for a vehicle in connection with a rash of mail fishing thefts in Schuylkill, Berks, and other counties. According...
Coal Region Consumer
The employee shortage facing many businesses nationwide has affected some popular local businesses. Bowers Donuts Inc., which owns several Dunkin’ franchises in Pottsville and...
Coal Region Recipes
September 23rd is recognized as National Pot Pie Day. Depending on where you’re from, pot pie could mean something that it doesn’t mean to...
Schuylkill County Me Too
Two of the Jane Doe plaintiffs in a sexual harassment lawsuit against Schuylkill County government officials have been suspended from their jobs indefinitely and...
Local Weather
Between 2-4 inches of rain is expected to fall on Schuylkill County Thursday and National Weather Service has issued a Flash Flood Watch for...
Schuylkill County News
A Frackville man is locked up in Schuylkill County Prison and facing multiple felony charges after being charged with rape of a 15-year-old girl...
Coronavirus in Pennsylvania
Tuesday’s Tamaqua Area school board meeting ended with a lot of shouting and some members of the public telling board members that they weren’t...
Coal Region Op-Ed
EDITORIAL Over the last week or so, we’ve heard about two school boards in the area chickening out when they’re faced with the proverbial...
Schuylkill County News
Police are asking for the public’s help in piecing together what exactly happened to a charter bus that crashed off Interstate 81 in Schuylkill...
Schuylkill County News
UPDATED FROM AN EARLIER VERSION … UPDATED AS NEW DETAILS ARE RELEASED … More than two dozen people were injured in a charter bus...
Schuylkill County News
Someone held up a small business in the Pine Grove area early Sunday morning and police are looking for information on who may have...
Schuylkill County Man
A Schuylkill County man says someone robbed him through a hole in the wall of his apartment. Police need your help finding the...
Schuylkill County News
An Indiana man died Saturday evening in a tractor-trailer crash on Interstate 81 in Schuylkill County Saturday evening. According to State Police in Frackville,...
Schuylkill County News
There have been a number of assaults and fights reported around Schuylkill County lately. Most notably comes a report from back on Sept. 7...
Schuylkill County News
A Port Clinton man sustained injuries in a crash along Interstate 81 in Lebanon County Friday evening. According to State Police in Jonestown, the...
Coal Region Consumer
A liquor shortage in Pennsylvania has caused the state’s Liquor Control Board to ration sales on some bottles. This rationing is now in effect....
Local Community News
A new sign has been added to the Butterfly Garden at Canal Park in Pine Grove. South Schuylkill Garden Club says the sign was...
Local Sports
Here are the scores from Week 4 of the 2021 Schuylkill League high school football season. SCHUYLKILL-COLONIAL LEAGUE – GOLD DIVISION Pottsville 47, Blue...
Coronavirus in Pennsylvania
Blue Mountain School District released data on Thursday obviously trying to show that mandatory face masks on students and staff work. In reality, it...
PA News
A New York man died on Interstate 81 near Schuylkill County on Thursday when he crashed his motorcycle. The crash happened at Mile Marker...
Schuylkill County News
State Police say they’re still investigating an ATV crash late last month in Schuylkill County. A York man was seriously injured in the crash...
Local Weather
National Weather Service confirmed Thursday a “downburst wind event” on Monday near Hometown. The downburst happened when a line of severe thunderstorms blew through...
Schuylkill County News
When the Schuylkill County Commissioners voted to basically blow up the Tax Claims and Tax Assessors offices at the Courthouse earlier this year, you’d...
Schuylkill County News
A Shenandoah man walking along Ringtown Blvd. (aka Route 924) was taken to Reading Hospital Tuesday morning after he was struck by a vehicle....
Schuylkill County News
A Schuylkill County woman says her engagement ring is missing after she attempted to send it to the maker for maintenance. According to information...
Schuylkill County News
Since pandemic unemployment pay has dried up, it looks like catalytic converter thieves are back to work, too. State Police in Schuylkill County have...
Local Weather
More than 8,000 PPL Electric customers were without power Monday night and into Tuesday morning following a reportedly strong storm swept through the Tamaqua...
2020 Election
A liberal activist group is planning a protest this afternoon in front of State Sen. Dave Argall’s office in Pottsville. And a counter-protest could...
Coronavirus in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania’s Education Secretary recently sent a threatening letter to board members at Tamaqua Area School District over their decision to defy the state’s indoor...
Schuylkill County News
A Pottsville man died early Sunday morning in a crash involving a city police vehicle. According to limited information available from State Police in...
Local Community News
Cemeteries tell a lot of stories. And when you have one as large as the Charles Baber Cemetery in Pottsville, there are plenty of...
Schuylkill County News
On the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, it’s clear that the people of Schuylkill County never forget. For the...
District XI News
Here are the high school football scores involving Schuylkill League teams in Week 3 of the 2021 season. GOLD DIVISION BANGOR (2-1) AT BLUE...
Schuylkill County News
Things got a little dicey at the planned Williams Valley school board meeting Thursday night. The school says the planned meeting – a special...
Schuylkill County News
Over the summer, Mahanoy Area School District knew it was going to have an issue with a lack of bus drivers. And earlier this...
Local Sports
Week 2 was a much better week for our in-house prognosticator. After just cracking the .500 mark on the opening week of the 2021...
Local Sports
We’re already at Week 3 of the high school football season. And it’s finally time for the Colonial-Schuylkill League to make its debut,...
Schuylkill County News
On a very special episode of 227 … Police in Minersville say they netted a bulk stash of heroin during a raid on a...
Coronavirus in Pennsylvania
After a prolonged and at times heated debate Wednesday night, school board members at Blue Mountain School District voted to allow parental exemptions from...
Coronavirus in Pennsylvania
Blue Mountain school board members met Wednesday night specifically to discuss exemptions to the mandatory indoor face mask mandate. But masks weren’t required for...
Schuylkill County News
A federal judge for the Third Circuit Appeals Court recently vacated a ruling from a lower District Court that denied overtime pay to 3...
PA News
A Wiconisco man has been charged with criminal homicide after police say he shot his roommate Monday afternoon. According to State Police in Lykens,...
Coronavirus in Pennsylvania
Masks will be mandatory at Hamburg Area schools starting Wednesday … WINK 😉. School board members there voted Tuesday night, 5-3, to approve a...
Local Community News
Schuylkill County is holding a Fall Cleanup and Recycling event in several communities starting this week. The Fall Cleanup is a great time to...
Coronavirus in Pennsylvania
Hamburg Area School District may be joining Tamaqua Area in defying the indoor mask mandate announced by the administration of Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf...
District XI News
The 2021 Schuylkill League high school soccer season got underway over the weekend with several teams in action for non-league play. The highlight of...
Schuylkill County News
An Orwigsburg woman says she’s out more than $42,000 in an apparent computer virus scam. According to information from State Police in Schuylkill Haven,...
Schuylkill County Man
A Schuylkill County man remains in prison this weekend after allegedly making himself at home in another man’s home earlier this week. According to...
Schuylkill County News
Police are investigating the death of a Girardville man discovered floating in a stripping pit Thursday evening. According to State Police in Frackville, the...
Schuylkill County News
Schuylkill County Courthouse will be awash in purple light through the month of September to honor National Recovery Month and Suicide Prevention Awareness. On...
Local Sports
We’re back with another round of predictions for Week 2 of the 2021 Schuylkill League high school football season. After Week 1, we...
District XI News
Here are the high school football scores involving Schuylkill League teams in Week 2 of the 2021 season. Friday, September 3 BLUE MOUNTAIN (1-1)...
Coronavirus in Pennsylvania
Tamaqua Area school board president Larry Wittig said Thursday night he wasn’t looking to “stick a finger in the Governor’s eye” but at the...
Schuylkill County News
More than 1,000 PPL Electric customers are without power Thursday morning following a day of historic rainfall caused by Tropical Depression Ida. At 1...
Local Weather
National Weather Service has issued a Flood Warning for Schuylkill County. A previous Flash Flood Warning for the area has been cancelled. Approximately 3-5...
Schuylkill County News
The storm certainly lived up to the hype. Rain from Tropical Depression Ida deluged Schuylkill County all day Wednesday, dumping at least 5 inches...
Local Weather
This alert was cancelled at 5:45 p.m. by National Weather Service. A Flash Flood Warning has been issued for Schuylkill County until 6 p.m....
Local Community News
Schuylkill County Historical Society is hosting several events in September that’ll interest local history buffs. Here’s a look at what’s coming up on the...
Local Sports
Panther Valley has been forced to cancel its second game of the 2021 Schuylkill League high school football season due to COVID. D11 Sports...
Coronavirus in Pennsylvania
Whenever you hear someone complain that someone “doesn’t believe in science” or they’ll argue “the science is clear” it makes you wonder if they...
Schuylkill County Man
A Schuylkill County man says he’s being victimized by a case of Snapchat extortion. Last week, a 21-year-old man from Washington Township reported to...
Coronavirus in Pennsylvania
Schuylkill Haven Area School District announced Monday afternoon that it’s reinstituting its face mask mandate for students, teachers, and staff inside school buildings. In...
Schuylkill County News
This report has been updated to reflect current information from National Weather Service-State College, as of 4:30 p.m., Aug. 31. National Weather Service has...
Local Weather
While Schuylkill County has never really felt the direct impact of a hurricane, it’s definitely seen its share of hurricane remnants. We’re prone to heavy...
Local Weather
Hurricane Ida is poised to make landfall in Louisiana and Mississippi on Sunday. On the cusp of being categorized as a major hurricane (sustained...
Coronavirus in Pennsylvania
North Schuylkill School District is again mandating face masks be worn inside school buildings. The policy goes into place on Aug. 30 and requires...
Local Sports
Rain and lightning marred the opening night of Schuylkill League high school football Friday. Four games were postponed and rescheduled for this weekend...
Local Sports
A Mount Carmel man died and 3 Schuylkill County residents were injured in a head-on vehicle crash Friday afternoon in Schuylkill County. According to...
Local Sports
High school football season is here once again and after a year of COVID-related postponements, cancellations, condensed schedules, etc., we’ve brought back our...
District XI News
Here are the high school football scores involving Schuylkill League teams in Week 1 of the 2021 season. Friday, August 27 NORTHWESTERN LEHIGH...
Local Sports
The 2021 high school football season kicks off on Aug. 27 here in the coal region. And there’s a big slate of games this...
Schuylkill County News
The death of an infant is currently being investigated in one part of Schuylkill County. According to information from State Police in Schuylkill Haven,...
Schuylkill County Me Too
Talks to settle the Jane Doe lawsuit involving several Schuylkill County government officials – namely Commissioner George Halcovage – have fallen apart. According to...