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)

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)

Kulpmont Football/Baseball Association Meetings, first Wednesday of each month at 7:30 p.m. Coal Runnings Running club, meets at 5:30 p.m. each Monday at Shamokin Area's Kemp Memorial Stadium parking lot. Open to runners of all ages. More on Facebook at (read more)

Extra-distance, higher-paying races are slated for this weekend's racing action in celebration of Memorial Day. Plenty of tracks will have remembrances of our fallen war heroes and also honor the lives of racing competitors who have passed on. Numidia Dr (read more)

- There was a red-hot race for Shamokin City Council on the Republican side. When the smoke cleared, R. Fred Graznow edged out Claude Redly Jr. by a count of 1,757 to 1,755. Both candidates were members of council at the time of the election. Dan Strauss (read more)

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)