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COUPLE RESCUED IN COAL TOWNSHIP FIRE
Photo: N/A, License: N/A, Created: 2013:05:23 03:13:45 COAL TOWNSHIP - A state police fire marshal is unable to determine the cause of a three-alarm fire that gutted one West Arch Street home and caused severe damage to two others early Thursday morning. Two people who initially could not be roused were aler (read more)
Shamokin Area to fix AC after end of school year
Photo: N/A, License: N/A, Created: 2013:05:23 16:22:52 COAL TOWNSHIP - The heat is on the administrators of Shamokin Area School District to have the air conditioning repaired at the middle/high school after temperatures hit the mid-80s inside the school building this week. Administrators would like nothing (read more)
Origin of F&S Beer dates to mid-19th century; company endured for decades
Photo: N/A, License: N/A SHAMOKIN - Many businesses have come and gone since Shamokin was incorporated in 1864, though only a few are as memorable as Fuhrmann and Schmidt Brewing Company. Founded in 1896 by German immigrants Max Schmidt and P.H. Fuhrmann, the origin of F&S beer (read more)
F&S billboard revived; memorabilia of beer company still popular
Photo: N/A, License: N/A, Created: 2013:05:20 15:19:20 Phil Thompson, whose grandfather founded Thompson Advertising, has graciously donated three of the firm's most popular retired billboards to the people of Shamokin. Northumberland County Council for the Arts and Humanities (NCCAH) accepted Monday an 8-by (read more)

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Sound Off: Friday, may 24, 2013
No Pandora Remember, four boxes keep us free: The soap box, the ballot box, the cartridge box and the jewelry box. Trashed It sounds like everyone is condemning Shamokin. Why don't they take a look at everyone dumping garbage out the mountains? We were r (read more)
Sound Off: Thursday, May 24, 2013
Can of worms "Zerbe ruling will open a can of worms." If Mr. Bronokoski would have just left the guy alone with the boat, not on his property, across the street, this can of worms wouldn't have been opened. You opened the can of worms, now you have to su (read more)
Sound Off: Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Retry it again If O.J. Simpson is given a new trial, so should the Goldmans be allowed to retry the murder case, even though it is against the laws on the book presently. Counting donkeys I always check who wrote a news story and when I see AP news I kn (read more)