Wilson News

Eugenio Torres, left, is charged with slashing Shaun Austin in Northampton County Prison.

The New Creation United Church of Christ hopes it has found a new home. After years of consolidation and saying goodbye to former church buildings, the 600-strong congregation wants to establish a new church at 3730 Nicholas St.

A familiar face is now at the helm of a police department in Northampton County.

The Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement has charged a Wilson Borough establishment with violating a liquor law by allowing gambling on the premises.

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A man fired from his job Friday morning armed himself with a box cutter and held Palmer police at bay, prompting the lockdown of an area school, police said.

Ten businesses from Bangor to Walnutport have benefited from low-interest loans totaling $240,900 from the the Rising Tide Community Loan Fund, which offers credit to entrepreneurs in communities where loans are difficult to obtain.

Joey Sklodowsky, 5, left, pulls his brother Michael, 2, in the Easton-Phillipsburg Halloween Parade.

With the H1N1 flu pandemic in full swing, the Wilson Area School Board on Monday approved plans to hold a vaccination clinic for all students who live within the district, but a date has not been set.

Three brothers and their mom ran a $2.5 million marijuana and money laundering ring that operated in Easton and distributed large amounts of the drug on the Kutztown University campus, the state attorney general's office announced this morning.

Two people were seriously hurt in a roll-over accident Sunday on eastbound Route 22 in Wilson, authorities said.

Dean Young said he was alarmed to learn Wilson Borough was abandoning its summer recreation program.

It's no surprise. Public libraries are as strapped for cash as everyone else. That doesn't mean, however, that your local library isn't purchasing new children's books.

Several local small businesses hope a rising tide will lift their economic boats.

Carmen Twillie Ambar pledged to work to make "new again" the quaint idea of a women's liberal arts college as she was officially inaugurated as Cedar Crest College president Friday afternoon.

Literally painted emerald green, Wilson Borough native Dee Roscioli is living her dream nightly as the high-flying star of the Tony Award -winning Broadway musical '' Wicked .'' Roscioli plays Elphaba, a young woman from the land of Oz who becomes the Wicked Witch of the West, in the wildly successful musical based on the novel by Gregory Maguire ...

Matthew Alercia becomes the 14th conductor in the band's 120-year history. A music director in the Wilson Area School District is the new conductor of the Pioneer Band of Allentown .

Voters in the Nov. 3 election will choose from among four attorneys to fill three Northampton County judgeships: Leonard Zito, a county judge serving an appointed term; Michael Koury, a district judge; Craig Dally, a state representative; and Barbara Hollenbach, a lawyer specializing in civil law.

Retired Bethlehem Area School District Superintendent Joseph Lewis has withdrawn from the Moravian College job he was supposed to start three days ago.

After more than 20 years, borough children won't have a recreation program to keep them busy next summer.