Snyder County News

The position of special assistant to the warden of the Snyder County Jail was revived Thursday by the salary board, which set the annual wage at $35,000 to $40,000. Majority Commissioners Malcolm Derk and Joe Kantz and Treasurer Gale Jones were in favor of reviving the position and the salary.

Officials and volunteers put the final touches on a stream restoration project in Mount Pleasant Mills on Wednesday.

An official from SEDA-Council of Governments approached the Snyder County commissioners Tuesday to request their support for a study regarding the proposed Lake Augusta Gateway Project.

The SEDA-Council of Governments wants to create a river sports park in an area off the Veterans Memorial Bridge in Shamokin Dam as part of a broader riverfront development project.

Liz Rohde/The Daily ItemPre-school and school-age children play Thursday at the Children-s Discovery Center in Penn Township, Snyder County.

A girl hit by a sport utility vehicle in Snyder County is recovering. She was run over on Saturday after falling off of her bike.

Snyder County's largest employer could be affected as a class-action lawsuit alleges residents of five state-operated institutions, including Selinsgrove Center, have not been offered the opportunity to move to community settings.

Farm implements with attitude compete near Selinsgrove By Craig Urey SELINSGROVE -- What pulls people to tractor pulls? In one word, it's "power." There was plenty of that power on display Saturday at the Snyder County Tractor Pullers Association event near Selinsgrove, and some of it came in unlikely packages.

Brian Dobbs, of Juniata Township in Perry County, greets a customer Tuesday at his stand at the farmers market at the Pennsylvania State Farm Show Complex.

A couple accused of using a dedit card they found in a lost wallet to buy cigarettes and medicine were arrested after dozens of people, including their parents, recognized them from a surveillance photo published in The Daily Item and called police.

Sterling Fisher, right, and Brandon Fisher stand at attention with other members of the American Legion Post 52 and Boy Scout Troop 415 after placing the first two flags on the fire at a flag disposal ceremony for the Middleburg community at Fireman's Field Sunday.

Fourteen people and a lottery ball may have determined who will be the next mayor of Selinsgrove, a community of 5,300 people.

A security camera image shows a young couple -- later identified as Nicholas Lewis Keister, 19, of Penns Creek, and Dominica Marie McCarthy-Keister, 22, of Middleburg, -- entering the Giant grocery store in Monroe Township.

Snyder County commissioners on Tuesday signed an agreement with the borough of Selinsgrove to submit a grant application for more than $43,000 to support local police enforcement programs.

A 20-year-old Snyder County jail inmate serving time for burglary is in more trouble for allegedly assaulting three correction officers.

State police are looking for a young couple, one of whom may have a toothache, who allegedly picked up a wallet outside a movie theater Sunday night and later used a credit card to make purchases at a grocery store.

Incumbent Selinsgrove Mayor Pete Carroll drew the winning numbered ball from a small wicker basket Friday to garner the Republican nomination, ending a 14-vote tie between himself and former Mayor Garry Beaver.

Regional unemployment improved in April, but was still worse than the state and national averages, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry.

A 42-year-old Middleburg man is being held at Snyder County Jail on $50,000 bail after allegedly accusing his wife of having an affair and pointing a loaded .25-caliber automatic pistol at her, their son and his wife's friend.

Recognizing that advanced technology would help Snyder County operate more efficiently, commissioners Tuesday decided to hire an information technology technician.