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- Local
Blue Mountain Fails to Reinstitute Class Rank System After Strange Votes
Schuylkill Commissioners Approve Preliminary Budget with 3.5-Mill Increase in Property Taxes
Police Seek Info on Alleged Road Rage Incident with Shots Fired on Route 61 Tuesday Evening
Fourth Minersville Armed Robbery Suspect Turns Himself In
Rivers Gets 12½ to 38 Years for Role in Fatal Cass Township Crash
- News
Blue Mountain Fails to Reinstitute Class Rank System After Strange Votes
Schuylkill Commissioners Approve Preliminary Budget with 3.5-Mill Increase in Property Taxes
Police Seek Info on Alleged Road Rage Incident with Shots Fired on Route 61 Tuesday Evening
Fourth Minersville Armed Robbery Suspect Turns Himself In
Rivers Gets 12½ to 38 Years for Role in Fatal Cass Township Crash
- 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
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Local Weather
National Weather Service has issued an Excessive Heat Warning for Schuylkill County on Thursday. The warning lasts from Noon until 7 p.m. on Thursday....
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An Ashland man says someone recently stole, among other things, his medicinal marijuana right from his home. According to State Police in Frackville, at...
Coronavirus in Pennsylvania
A total of 10 Schuylkill County businesses were recently cited by Pennsylvania Liquor Control Enforcement for COVID violations Many of these violations won’t even...
Schuylkill County Obituaries
Bernadette L. Moran, 65, Ashland passed away peacefully Sunday, January 10th at her home surrounded by her loving family. Born in Ashland, she was...
Schuylkill County Obituaries
Robert “Punchy” Leinenbach, 90, of West Centre St., Ashland, passed away January 8, 2021, at his residence. Born in Ashland, January 5, 1931, he...
Schuylkill County News
Get ready for a whopper of a snowstorm on Wednesday. Unless these forecasts fall apart completely over the next 24 hours – it’s happened...
Schuylkill County News
A Schuylkill County woman was recently cited with a disorderly conduct charge after she refused to come down off a roof. According to information...
Schuylkill County Obituaries
Wesley Litchko, 83, of Ashland, passed away on Saturday, October 24, 2020 at Lehigh Valley, Allentown. Born in Catawissa, PA February 22, 1937 the...
Schuylkill County Obituaries
Paul A. Diefenderfer Jr., 71 of Ashland, passed away suddenly on Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020, in Mt. Carmel Twp. Born in Ashland March 4,1949 the...
Schuylkill County Obituaries
Ralph F. Buchspics, Sr. of Ashland, passed away Wednesday morning, October 21, 2020 at Seton Manor Nursing Home, Orwigsburg. Born in Ashland, September 26,...
Schuylkill County Obituaries
John W. Latsko, Sr., 78, of Walnut St., Ashland, passed away October 16th at the Geisinger Shamokin Community Hospital, Coal Township. Born in Big...
Schuylkill County Obituaries
Jean A. Carl Lenker, 83, of Main Street, Ashland, passed away Friday, October 16th, at the home of her granddaughter and care giver in...
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Allen M. Lucas, 67, of Deep Creek Road, Ashland, passed away at the Lehigh Valley Hospital, Cedar Crest, Allentown. Visit www.Fritzfuneralhome.com. The Richard W....
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Pennsylvania State Police are looking for a missing Shenandoah man after they say he fled from a vehicle in Centralia over the weekend. According...
Schuylkill County Obituaries
Grace Fago, 92, of Mount Carmel, formerly of Ashland passed away Saturday, September 19th, at Geisinger Medical Center, Danville. Born in Ashland on Sept....
Coal Region Consumer
An Ashland man purportedly was bilked out of $3,500 in an increasingly common scam involving gift cards. According to State Police in Bloomsburg, an...
Schuylkill County Obituaries
Warren R. Harter, 73, of Walnut St., Ashland, passed away Monday, September 7th, at the Shamokin Geisinger Community Hospital, Shamokin. Born in Ashland, February...
Schuylkill County Obituaries
Mary T. Donahoe, 93, of Ashland, passed away Friday, August 14th, at Artman Lutheran Home, Ambler, PA. Born in Ashland, PA Dec.12,1926 the...
Schuylkill County Obituaries
Dante Newman, 18, of Centre St., Ashland, passed away Aug. 5 at his residence. Born in Long Branch, NJ, November 15, 2001, he is...
Schuylkill County Obituaries
Emma A. “Nan” Fetterolf, 86, of Ringtown and former Ashland resident, passed away Wednesday, July 22, at her home with her family by her...
Schuylkill County Obituaries
Susan Shoup, 56, of Ashland, passed away Sunday, July 12, 2020 at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest, Allentown. Born in Shenandoah, on December 30, 1963,...
Schuylkill County Obituaries
Joanne Maloney, 88, of Ashland, passed away Sunday June 21st, at the Broad Mountain Nursing Center, Frackville, where the staff lovingly called her Fudgie...
Schuylkill County Obituaries
Ray Kevin Rockwell, 63 of Oakland Ave., Ashland, passed away Thursday, June 11, 2020, at Lehigh Valley Hospital, Pottsville. Born in Ashland January 23,...
Schuylkill County News
State Police have obtained an arrest warrant for an Ashland man following a violent baseball bat attack Saturday morning. Ashland Man Wanted Following Baseball...
Schuylkill County Obituaries
Helene M. Vernosky, 92, of Ashland, former Shenandoah resident, passed away Sunday, May 24th, at her residence. The Richard W. Fritz Funeral Home, Ashland,...
Schuylkill County Obituaries
Helene R. Dwyer, 69, of Ashland, passed away Sunday, April 26, 2020 at Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, after very long years of illnesses. Born...
Schuylkill County Obituaries
Beverly A. Kohlenberg, 83, former Ashland resident, passed away Friday, April 24, at the Shenandoah Manor Senior Living Center. Born in Fountain Springs, March...
Schuylkill County Obituaries
Sarah J Hornberger, 86, of Ashland, passed away Sunday, April 12, 2020 at Schuylkill Center, Pottsville. Sarah was born in Ashland, on February 17,...
Schuylkill County Obituaries
Margaret R. Almeida, 78, of Ashland, passed away Monday, March 30, at her home. Born February 21, 1942 in Philadelphia the daughter of the...
Schuylkill County Obituaries
Joyce Ann Magdeburg, 72, Ashland, passed away peacefully at home on Wednesday morning surrounded by her loving family. Born in Ashland she was a...
Schuylkill County Obituaries
Tammy P. Bowman, 57, former Ashland and Valley View resident, passed away Wednesday, March 11, in Carlisle. Born in Pottsville, January 21, 1963, she...
Schuylkill County Obituaries
Eva “Toot” Fegley, 88, of Lavelle, passed away Friday, March 6, 2020, at Serenity Gardens, Kulpmont. Born in Lavelle on July 16, 1931, the...
Schuylkill County Obituaries
Michael C. “Mickey” Matukaitis, 46, Mount Carmel, passed away on Wednesday, March 4, at Geisinger Medical Center, Danville. Born in Ashland, he was the...
Schuylkill County News
Schuylkill County Commissioner Frank Staudenmeier will be laid to rest on Saturday, March 7, in his hometown of Ashland. Staudenmeier passed away unexpectedly on...
Schuylkill County Obituaries
Frank Staudenmeier, age 69, a lifelong resident of Ashland, passed away unexpectedly on Saturday afternoon at Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Sarasota, FL with his wife...
Local Politics
Schuylkill County Commissioner Frank Staudenmeier has died. According to a Times News report, Staudenmeier passed away while on vacation in Florida. He was 69...
Schuylkill County Obituaries
C. Robert Yarnell, 72, of Ashland, passed away on Friday, February 21, 2020 at his home. Born in Shenandoah, May 22, 1947 the son...
Schuylkill County Obituaries
Reverend Edmund J. Brennan, 66, Girardville, passed away peacefully at Saint Luke’s Hospital, Bethlehem on Wednesday, February 12. Born in Ashland, Father Brennan is...
Schuylkill County Obituaries
John “Jack” Grosser, 74 of Ashland, passed away Friday, January 31, 2020, at Broad Mt. Manor Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, Frackville. Born in Gordon...
Schuylkill County Obituaries
Catherine Schu, 100, of Haymarket, Virginia, formerly of Ashland, passed away Friday, January 24, in Virginia. Born in Ashland, March 8, 1919, she was...
Local Politics
John Leshko, the former mayor of Middleport borough in Schuylkill County, announced his candidacy for the State House of Representatives. Leshko’s seeking the Republican...
Local Politics
The Canary can confirm former Ateeco Inc. owner and executive Tim Twardzik is running for Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives. Twardzik will seek the Republican...
Local Weather Alerts
The snowstorm predicted didn’t materialize as we’d hoped but Saturday promises to be a tricky travel day across Schuylkill County. According to our analysis...
Canary Announcements
With a big snowstorm in the forecast, you’re bound to see some fantastic photos of the Coal Region covered in a wintry white blanket....
Schuylkill County Obituaries
Leah Heckman, 94 formerly of Ashland, passed away Monday, January 6, 2020 at St. John’s Specialty Care Center in the Village of Mars, PA....
Schuylkill County Obituaries
Nancy Mohrbach, 90, of Tamaqua and formerly of Ashland died on Tuesday, January 7, 2020 in Hometown. She was the wife of the late...
Schuylkill County Obituaries
Richard “Popeye” Fishburn, 89, of Ashland, former Locustdale resident, passed away Sunday, December 29, at the Schuylkill Center Nursing Home, Pottsville. Visit www.Fritzfuneralhome.com. The...
Local Business News
You’ve probably been heading to the Yuengling.com site to see where you can get a taste of this new Yuengling Hershey’s Chocolate Porter Beer. And...
Local Community News
The Ashland Trunk or Treat event is a prime example of what happens when you let government take too much control. They’re going to...
Local Business News
Want some food from your favorite restaurant in Schuylkill County but don’t feel like leaving the house? Check out DoorDash. There’s an increasing chance...
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UPDATE: This alert was canceled at 4:48 p.m. National Weather Service has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Schuylkill County until 5 p.m., April...
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UPDATE: No cause for the fire has been determined. An investigation into the blaze continues. A dramatic three-alarm fire in Ashland overnight resulted in...
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Firefighters spent much of Thursday battling a massive fire that destroyed an Ashland neighborhood. Right now, there are more than 20 people homeless from...