Stories from Friday, January 21, 2022
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Council waiting on permission to keep bar buzz down
BERWICK — A public hearing about whether to let Berwick continue enforcing its own noise ordinance for bars instead of...
Wapwallopen man, 65, is charged
BRIAR CREEK TWP. — Police say the Wapwallopen man who caused a nearly head-on collision on the Berwick-Nescopeck Bridge...
Developers promise to protect Scott Township safety, appearance
SCOTT TWP. — A hearing on a proposed solar energy farm on 146 acres of farmland near Fowlersville Road drew a crowd of...
School amends its health and safety plan amid pandemic
SOUTH CENTRE TWP. — While masks will remain optional at Columbia-Montour Vo-Tech, officials tweaked the school’s COVID-...
Danville police: Drugs found during robbery probe
DANVILLE — A judge upheld an arrest by borough police last fall. While investigating a convenience store robbery,...
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Columbia County Food Pantry: Drive-through, 9 a.m. to noon, Agape, 19 E. Seventh St., Bloomsburg. BTE’s “The...
1950: Former State Department official Alger Hiss, accused of being part of a Communist spy ring, was found guilty in...
• Singer Emma Bunton (Spice Girls), 46. • Basketball Hall of Famer Hakeem Olajuwon, 59. • Actor Geena Davis, 66...
Panel asks for Ivanka Trump WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection sent a...
• On or about Feb. 8, Bloomsburg will submit a request to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for...
Farm show attendance falls HARRISBURG (AP) — The Pennsylvania Farm Show returned as an in-person event this month, but...
TREASURE HUNT: 10-20-26-29-30 MIDDAY PICK TWO: 0-4; WILD: 5 MIDDAY PICK THREE: 2-6-6; WILD: 5 MIDDAY PICK FOUR: 4-9-...
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Danville is getting ready for its 36th annual Spring Fling to be held on May 7. “Last year we pushed it from May to...
NEW YORK (AP) — From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the top U.S. public health agency has been criticized as...
MIFFLIN TWP. — A Danville man’s pickup drifted off Interstate 80 and hit a cable barrier, badly damaging it, State...
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BU Dean, model railroader, distance runner
Howard Kane Macauley, Ph.D., 89, of Bloomsburg passed away peacefully on Jan. 18, 2022. Born in Philadelphia to...
32-year Central teacher and church volunteer
Shirley Krum Thomas, 88, of Bloomsburg passed away on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022, a patient of Brookdale Assisted Living...
Veteran retired from Wise Foods after 42 years
Michael J. “Mick” Sharkuski Sr., 79, of Benton Township died Wednesday evening, Jan. 19, 2022, at his home. Born Oct....
Dedicated homemaker deeply loved animals
Rosemary Ann Tobias, 74, of Danville passed away peacefully Thursday morning, Jan. 20, 2022, at Geisinger Medical...
Homemaker enjoyed gardening, mystery novels
Carole A. Kishbaugh, 82, of Berwick passed away on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022, at Geisinger Medical Center, Danville....
Enjoyed volunteering, gardening, traveling
Jeannette J. Abraczinskas, 85, of Edgewater, Fla., died Jan. 11, 2022, at Wickshire Nursing Center, Port Orange, Fla....
Private services to be held for nonagenarian
Caroline E. (Young) Fulmer, 96, of Fishing Creek Township died Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022, at Geisinger Medical Center,...
BERWICK — The following civil lawsuits were filed in the office of District Judge Richard W. Knecht. Such actions are...
Longtime Berwick resident was truck driver
Hayes D. Horner Jr., 66, of 53 Main St., Berwick (Beach Haven), passed away on Friday, Jan. 14, 2022, at the Geisinger-...
Brayden R. Mensch Maranda Grasley and Colton Mensch, Berwick, are the parents of a son, Brayden Ray, born Wednesday,...
DANVILLE — A Mifflinburg man was sentenced Tuesday to probation after admitting he used bank information of a former...
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ALBUQUERQUE (AP) —A proposal to overhaul New Mexico’s social studies standards has stirred debate over how race should...
Earth simmered to the sixth hottest year on record in 2021, according to several newly released temperature...
BLOOMSBURG — A Bloomsburg man stopped for driving erratically on Dec. 4, had a suspended license, police said. Mark...
MIFFLIN TWP. — A Tioga County man was arrested for driving under the influence of drugs on Interstate 80 after a state...
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Way to be dramatic Jeff Sutton, “we’ve received not one, but two letters from the previous board stating that they were...
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DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a healthy 79-year-old female who recently underwent a right total knee arthroplasty. In a routine...
DEAR ABBY: During my teenage years, I was repeatedly raped by my brother. The emotional and physical damage has left my...
IF YOU WERE BORN TODAY You’re rational and down-to-earth, but you’re creative and resourceful too. You have a knack...
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When we last saw George MacKay running, he was sprinting full-tilt across a World War I battlefield. In “1917,” the...
Once upon a time there was a film that didn’t know what it was. A romantic comedy? Perhaps. A period drama? A fairy...
In “The Royal Treatment,” the chief of staff for the prince of a fictional European country accidentally calls a run-...
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BERWICK — A drunken man who allegedly broke into his neighbors’ home and fought with them spent 11 days in prison on...
On Thursday, researchers reported the latest in a string of experiments to save human lives with organs from...
LONDON (AP) — A British man who held four people hostage in a Texas synagogue ranted against Jews and American wars as...
BERWICK — Two people recently were charged with failing to send students in their care to Berwick Area High School,...
BLOOMSBURG — Bloomsburg High School’s Class of 1954 is to meet at Perkins in Buckhorn on Wednesday at noon....
BLOOMSBURG — The Bloomsburg Class of 1965 is planning a Feb. 7 dinner at 6 p.m. at Applebee’s. Anyone interested in...
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WASHINGTON (AP) —President Joe Biden ends his first year in the White House with a clear majority of Americans...
“Today and tomorrow will be partly sunny, free of storms and very cold. High temperatures will be near 20 degrees....
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — This week, disability rights activists and advocates for Britney Spears backed a California...
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The Olympic Charter runs 112 pages and reads like something Gwyneth Paltrow would have written if she were in charge of...
INDIANAPOLIS — NCAA member schools voted to ratify a new, pared-down constitution Thursday, paving the way for a...
MELBOURNE, Australia — Daniil Medvedev faced a hostile crowd and a full array of Nick Kyrgios’ outbursts and tricks,...
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DALLAS — Devin Booker scored 28 points, Chris Paul had 20 points and 11 assists, and the Phoenix Suns rallied late to...
EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Brooklyn 28 16.636 —
Philadelphia 26 18.591 2 Boston 23 23.500 6...
RALEIGH, N.C. — Diamond Johnson scored 11 of her 16 points in a 41/2-minute stretch of the fourth quarter, and No. 4...
BLOOMINGTON, Ind.—Rob Phinisee scored a season-high 17 points in the first half and then made the decisive 3-pointer...
PHILADELPHIA — Make it 10 again — yes, straight defeats — for the Flyers. Philadelphia has dropped 10 straight games...
EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic GP W L OT Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 41 27 9 5 59 141 117 Florida 39 26 8 5 57 159 116 Toronto...
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CINCINNATI — If Tennessee Titans running back Derrick Henry returns for the playoffs Saturday, he’ll be running into a...
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — Von Miller remembers every detail of each time he has sacked Tom Brady, starting all the way...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. —Doug Pederson lasted five seasons in Philadelphia and Matt Nagy just four in Chicago before they...
Green Bay Packers linebacker De’Vondre Campbell remembers every critical comment he received after fighting through...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Willie Gay was charged with misdemeanor criminal damage to...
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Jan. 21
Jan. 21, 1992 • The San Antonio Spurs fire coach Larry Brown at his own request, ending his 31/2year tenure with the...
Today BASKETBALL High school boys Pittston at Berwick...............7:15 p.m. CCCS at Meadowbrook Chr...7:30 p.m....
COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN'S) 6 p.m. CBSSN — Toledo at Ohio 7 p.m. ESPN2 — St. Bonaventure at Duquesne FS1 — Illinois...
SOUTH CENTRE TWP. — Bloomsburg received falls from Jesse James (160 pounds), Nicholas Wharton (189) and Graden Thomas...
College Basketball
FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG at Ohio 4 Toledo at Manhattan 3 Siena Saint Bonaventure 5 at Duquesne...
Midway Lanes TUESDAY MIXED
Week 22 W L Overlook 19 5 Hell if I know 17 7 Glory Bowls 16 8 6 and Over 14 10...
BASEBALL
National League COLORADO ROCKIES — Named Scott Little manager, Julio Campos bench coach, Ryan Kibler pitching...
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It’s hard to know which is more messed up these days — air transportation, or the Biden Administration. As another case...
THORN: The Bloomsburg Area School Board has decided posting odd videos that reference Nazi World War II situations...
I’m sorry, I can’t sit back and just say nothing. On Jan. 19th, I read the vitriolic letter to the editor from a woman...
InsideSources.com When the envelope arrived in the mail one day in the 1930s and she pulled out the paper card and...
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WASHINGTON (AP) —The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose to the highest level in three months...
NEW YORK (AP) — Antibiotic-resistant germs caused more than 1.2 million deaths globally in one year, according to new...
KEMMERER, Wyoming (AP) — This sleepy town has relied on coal for over a century. Now, a company founded by the man who...
