Yesterday afternoon around 5 PM, James Gorski, 65, was traveling south on 61, used the left turn lane to turn onto Seven Stars Road and crossed into the path of Thomas Salvadora. Salvadora could not stop and hit the passenger side of Gorski's car.
Salvadora was not injured but Gorski died from his injuries.
Route 61 was shut down for a short time in the area.
Even though this doesn't directly impact Schuylkill County, the issue with the United States getting involved with Syria using chemical weapons has become a hot topic. At some point, our United States Representatives and Senators will be taking a vote on whether the United States should do something about Syria.
Our elected officials are to represent us and our views, so we asked our readers on our Facebook page the other day what we should we do about Syria?
Brad Daub, of Harrisburg, wondered what was pressing down the vegetation of one of his woodland food plots in western Schuylkill County, until his most recent check of the video on his game camera.
There he found clip after clip of a pair of black bear cubs wrestling their way across the food plot, snapping and trampling all vegetation in their path.
"I have almost 30 videos of these two over four days," he explained. "In almost every video they are playing and rolling around like this."
The recent video clips were the first time Daub spotted the cubs and their mother never showed herself in front of the camera.
ROAD NAME: Gordon Mountian Road BETWEEN: Heckscherville Road AND Biddle Street Type of Work: Milling & Paving Work being Done By: PENNDOT Contractor Type of Restriction: Daytime RESTRICTION: Lane restriction with flagging.
START DATE: 09/16/2013 Est. Completion Date: 10/31/2013 Restrictions in Effect (time of day): 7:00 AM To 7:00 PM
***NEW AREA CODE OVERLAY FOR SCHUYLKILL COUNTY AND OTHER COUNTIES IN 570 AREA CODE*** The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) announced today that mandatory ten-digit dialing is set to begin in September 2013 for residential and business customers within the existing 570 area code.
Presently, customers in this area are taking part in a permissive dialing period. However, beginning Sept. 21, 2013, mandatory 10-digit dialing will be required. During the upcoming mandatory dialing period, all calls must be made using the area code plus the seven-digit number. If only the seven-digit telephone number is dialed, customers will reach a recorded announcement stating they must hang up and redial the number using the area code plus the seven-digit number. This recording will be available permanently.
On July 15, 2010, the Commission approved an overlay plan for the 570 code, after consideration of public input and area code relief options. An overlay plan means that once the existing telephone numbers in the 570 area code are exhausted, new telephone services in that geographic region will be assigned telephone numbers out of the new area code, which has been designated as 272.
