Pine Grove News

Over the Octoraro Creek in Little Britain Township, something old is becoming something new.

The Pine Grove Area Democratic Club will host their annual Roast Pig and Turkey picnic with all the fixings on Saturday July 19, 2008 .

A Maryland man was injured in a crash Saturday night at a Heidelberg Township racetrack.

A fire that destroyed a shed Monday night in South Lebanon Township remains under investigation.

The Actors Guild of Schuylkill County will present dramatic presentations of four short works by John O'Hara in a theatre-dinner production Thursday, July 17, and Friday, July 18, at Sweet Arrow Lake Park, Pine ...

A dog breeder at the center of an I-Team Investigation has closed. But it's critics don't believe that's the end of Bulldog Ravine.

HARASSMENT: Julian David Burgos, 35, Jonestown, was charged after an incident at 4:55 a.m. Sunday at his home, state police in Jonestown said.

By Bud Angst A Schuylkill County jury - ' six men, six women - ' took two hours last Thursday to acquit a Pine Grove man who exercised control of his girl friend by wrapping her up head-to-toe "like a mummy" in ...

A state police trooper walks by the wreckage of a head-on crash between a pickup truck and a van at Route 22 onto Interstate 78 in Bethel Township Monday afternoon.

The Lowndes County Board of Education heard updates for architectural plans of the new Pine Grove Elementary School during its regular board meeting Monday.

A Schuylkill County coal miner who once said he drew strength from the danger of working underground was killed Monday in an explosion at a small shaft in the western end of the county where four miners were hurt in a 2004 blast.

It was Pennsylvania's first underground anthracite mine fatality in 71/2 years, officials said. Five other miners escaped injury.

Dale Russell Reightler, 43, of Donaldson, who had been a miner since his teens, died of massive chest and head injuries in the explosion, which happened at 10 a.m. about 2,300 feet underground at Buck Mountain Slope of R&D Coal Co. mine in Tremont Township, officials said.

A district judge today dismissed conspiracy charges against two owners of a Schuylkill County coal mine where a 2006 explosion killed a miner, but ordered them and another miner to face county court action on ...

Firefighters wait as their colleagues check the inside of Sniegocki & Associates, 103 W. Main St., Palmyra, after a fire broke out in the building about 2 p.m. Monday.

John G. Rozanski Jr., 50, of President Township, Venango County, Tionesta, Pa., due to injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident on Sunday, June 1st, 2008 at 5:50 p.m. in Hickory Township, Forest County, Pa.

On Sunday, June 22, 2008, Schuylkill County Building Trades will be hosting a "Building Trades Style Pig Roast Picnic" at the Buck Fever Rod & Gun Club, Pottsville on behalf of State Representative Tim Seip.

Tom Mayes, 76 of Burgard Apts., died at 1:20 a.m., Saturday, May 24, 2008, at the Golden Living Center-William Penn.

There will be a 50/50 drawing, Chinese auction, raffle, music and food. Antique appraisal by experienced antique dealer Ron Tamber owner of Country Connection Antiques.

" State Rep. Tim Seip will host a public meeting June 4 for area hunters and owners of sporting dogs to hear about proposed changes to Pennsylvania's Dog Law.

Pine Grove Beautification Committee met April 22 to plan for spring. Flag banners will be put up in time for Memorial Day.

Trucking companies are hard hit by the rising cost of diesel fuel. Some Schuylkill County companies tell The Republican & Herald newspaper in Pottsville the cost of fuel now exceeds their personnel costs.