BERWICK — Frank Sheptock, Berwick’s head football coach and athletic director, is resigning to take a new job with King’s College, the superintendent says.

Superintendent Wayne Brookhart said Sheptock pulled the team together Monday morning to tell them he was leaving for the new full-time job.

The district has not yet received a formal letter of resignation from the coach, but expects to have it and accept it by the March 18 school board meeting, he said.

It’s not clear yet when Sheptock’s last day working in the district would be, Brookhart said.

MONTOUR TWP. — A woman was rescued from a frigid Susquehanna River after she jumped from the Catawissa river bridge here Tuesday evening.
Police say the woman is in critical condition. They did not release her name as of press time.
Bloomsburg Fire Chief Scott McBride said once he and fire department members John Mahon, Todd Thomas and Tom Snyder reached the woman by boat shortly before 5 p.m., the only part of her body that was visible was her face.
“She was lifeless and unresponsive,” McBride said. “There were no respirations.”

ASHLAND — A fire has leveled five row homes and damaged three other structures in this borough, just under Columbia County's southern tip.

The fire, which started before 3 p.m. on the 1100 block of Brock Street in the borough tore through a series of row homes, and it appeared embers from that fire started another structure on the block on fire, firefighters said. We'll have more on the blaze as information is available.

LIGHTSTREET — A Berwick man driving a service repair truck slammed into the rear of an oversize tractor trailer along I-80 Wednesday morning after the big rig lost engine power and began drifting off the eastbound lanes about a half mile from the Lightstreet exit, State Police at Bloomsburg said.

The wreck left John Ehmer, 48, a driver for Tom Bowman Trucking Co. of Orangeville, in critical condition after  emergency surgery at Geisinger Medical Center.

The crash happened around 7 a.m.