COAL TOWNSHIP - The Shamokin Area School Board cast split votes in agreeing to take over the special education program at Northwestern Academy and to ratify an agreement to cut administrative salaries and benefits. Board members also voted unanimously to (read more)

SHAMOKIN - City council will explore the implementation of a nuisance ordinance enforcement program enacted earlier this year by its neighbor, Coal Township. The township targets people who violate codes such as abandoned vehicles, barking dogs and high (read more)

At this point in the spring we are left with three softball teams that will be playing in their respective district playoffs which start next week - Southern Columbia, Lourdes and North Schuylkill. All three played hard and earned it. Speaking of the pla (read more)

- Seven hundred coal miners were out on what was termed a "button strike." The walkout was called to allow union officials to see who was or was not wearing a union button. The two affected collieries were Burnside and Franklin. - On the national scene, (read more)

For sale When is Trevorton having its community yard sale this year? Grandpa chicken Why don't the Coal Township commissioners make a grandfather clause that whoever has chickens or a pet pig can keep them but once they die, that's it? Simple as that. Ju (read more)