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Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Marines get helping hand from members of Humanitarian Club

Gail Maholick/TIMES NEWS Members of the Humanitarian Club at the Lehighton Area Middle School collected 267 toys for the Schuylkill-Carbon Marine Corps League Detachment 626. From left are, front row, Haley Haggerty, Aubrie Rhoades and Susan Cook; second row, Emily Snyder, Kayla Strubeck, Cera Gaston, Janessa Marsh, Angelica Kercsmar and Julie Benning; and back row, Joe Sweeney, Samantha Parsons, Brianna Karpowicz, Jonathan Ropell, Kaitlynne Franklin and Brian Snyder.

A 10-year-old girl's enthusiasm helped the Lehighton Area Middle School's newly formed Humanitarian Club meet its goals of collecting more than 250 toys for the annual Toys for Tots toy drive.

Cera Gaston was the girl who took her role seriously as a club member.

Each day during the toy drive, Gaston read a story she wrote during morning announcements to spark her classmate's to bring in a toy. She also dressed up as a reindeer during a school assembly.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Annual subscription drive begins by Penn-Mahoning Ambulance

Penn-Mahoning Ambulance Association has begun its 2010 subscription drive.

Persons living in West Penn Township will be receiving an information packet in the mail.

Included are individual and family rates.

The subscription drive expires on Jan. 31. Anyone not receiving a packet by Dec. 19 should contact Frank Baker II at 570-386-2475 or the ambulance station at 570-386-2233.

Membership entitles subscribers to unlimited emergency transport to area hospitals.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Tamaqua man admits to sexual assault

A Tamaqua man pleaded guilty to a sex assault charge recently in the Schuylkill Court and a Nesquehoning man to a driviing under the influence (DUI) count and both were sentenced by Judge D. Michael Stine along with six others who entered guilty pleas to criminal charges.

Zachary S. Trevorah, 24, of 326 N. Railroad St., Tamaqua, on a charge of statutory sexual assault was sentenced to serve six to 23 months in the county prison, pay a fine of $150 plus court costs and $50 to the Criminal Justice Enhancement Account (CJEA) fund.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Coaldale officials say water authority officers make too much money

Coaldale Borough officials agree with a Lansford Borough Councilman that Lansford-Coaldale Joint Water Authority officers make too much money and benefits for the hours they put in.

But water authority members who attended a special meeting held Monday to discuss the matter say the salaries, health care, pension and workers' compensation benefits are justified.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Sobriety checkpoint in Tamaqua

ANDREW LEIBENGUTH/SPECIAL TO THE TIMES NEWS

A six-department Schuylkill County police sobriety and safety checkpoint was held late Friday into Saturday near the All American Jeep dealership on SR309 north of Tamaqua. Grants are used to pay for county checkpoints. The police departments working the checkpoint were Tamaqua (host), Coaldale, Shenandoah, New Castle Township, Saint Clair, and the Schuylkill County Sheriff's Police Department. Tamaqua Chief Dave Mattson and Alcoholic Enforcement Coordinator John Morgan organized the sobriety checkpoint.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Window to the past

DONALD R. SERFASS/TIMES NEWS Genealogist Samantha Gibbons, Tamaqua, explains some of the highlights of a family lineage display she created for the 75th anniversary of the Tamaqua Public Library. The two-part exhibit at the South Railroad Street facility encompasses a lobby display window and an interior display case, and is free to the public.

A new exhibit at the Tamaqua pays tribute to the 75th anniversary of the library by saluting the rich genealogical heritage of local families, many of whom were loyal library supporters over the years.

The exhibit, entitled 'Window to the past,' utilizes the lobby display window and an interior display case and includes a wide variety of unusual old family photos, birth and baptismal certificates, old documents, a genuine Victorian photo album, books devoted to genealogical research and rare memorabilia from Tamaqua's past.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Strong winter storm system to invade this area tonight

Residents and students in the TIMES NEWS coverage area may wake up to a wintry mess Wednesday due to a strong storm system that will reach the area this evening.

According to the National Weather Service, which has issued a winter weather advisory until 10 a.m. tomorrow, "a wintry mix is on the way for parts of Northeast Pennsylvania and Northern New Jersey."

The National Weather Service is calling for snow, sleet and freezing rain during the upcoming storm, which will develop in the area late this evening.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

W. Penn taxes to hold line

JOE PLASKO/TIMES NEWS Michael Warivonchik presents the West Penn Township Board of Supervisors with a petition to request that a traffic study be done on the intersection of Routes 309 and 895 in Snyders.

West Penn Township residents won't have to face any tax increases from the township next year.

The township's board of supervisors adopted a tentative budget for 2010 Monday night that holds the line against a property tax hike.

The budget is balanced at $1,829,751 in anticipated revenue and expenditures.

The real estate tax rate remains the same at 4.75 mills, with 4.25 mills for the general fund and a one-half mill fire tax. One mill generates $112,954 in revenue for the township, said Treasurer Karen Wittig.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Tamaqua HS Holiday Music Program to be held Thursday

The Tamaqua Area High School Music Department will present its annual "Holiday Music Program" on Thursday, Dec. 10 at 7:30 p.m. in the Tamaqua Area Auditorium.

The concert will feature the best in holiday selections presented by students in the Concert Choir, Jazz Chorale, Sr. High Wind Ensemble, and the 'Raider' Concert Band.

The Wind Ensemble will open the program with "Christmas Declarations" by Robert W. Smith. They will follow that with "Greensleeves." They close their portion of the program with "A Canadian Brass Christmas Suite" by Calvin Custer.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Penn Forest to buy trash compactor

Sealed bids for a new compactor were opened Monday night at the regular meeting of the Penn Forest Township Board of Supervisors. The township already has two compactors operating at its transfer station, but anticipating future growth in the township's population, supervisors have been planning to add a third machine for some time.

In fact, earlier this year when the township paved the ground around the existing compactors and installed the new recycling bins, they arranged for an electrician to wire the facility for a third machine.

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