Schuylkill County To Raise Taxes

The Republican Herald is reporting that Schuylkill County will have it's first tax hike in over a decade.

The board of commissioners met Wednesday morning and approve a budget that raises taxes over $2 million.

Read more about it below
http://republicanherald.com/schuylkill-county-to-raise-taxes-by-2-mills-1.1585008

What's your thoughts on this?

Juveniles To Be Charged For Ringtown Vandalism

It's being reported that several juveniles are expected to be charged sometime this week for the vandalism at the Ringtown Elementary School.  Although the number of juveniles were not given, it's being said that they were not all from the Ringtown borough.

The juveniles spray painted the exterior walls of the former Ringtown Elementary School.

Schuylkill County Weather 11/13/13

Wow. Tuesday sure felt like the depths of winter, huh?

Wednesday won't feel much better, but the good news is that Wednesday is it with the cold until about NEXT Wednesday.

Temperatures rebound to the 50s for Thursday thru Sunday and I wouldn't be surprised to see a renegade 60 degree reading or two by Monday! Will feel good. Some rain showers may accompany that milder spell, however. More details as we get closer. Until then, bundle up for one more day!

SKOOK SPOTLIGHT: New and Old Yuengling Logos

And Then There Was Five

Friday and Saturday evenings took our list of 9 Schuylkill County teams and shortened it down to 5.

It was inevitable that we would lose some teams because of them playing against each other but two losses of our biggest teams really hurt us.

Pottsville and Pine Grove really showed some promise in the playoffs, especially with Pine Grove going undefeated the entire regular season.  Although Pine Grove put up a good fight, they were unable to get that extra touchdown just to put them over Palisades.

Pottsville really struggled and Palisades was able to keep them to just a field goal the whole game.

Nativity and Tri-Valley are unfortunately the two on the losing end of playing against another Schuylkill County team.

To our winners, Mahanoy Area and North Schuylkill got their spark back when they finished off Nativity and North Penn.  They've been struggling the past couple weeks but this looked like the teams we started out the season with.

Marian is keeping up with their winning ways after starting out the season with 3 straight losses.

Williams Valley wasn't able to rest easy during their game against Pius X.  One touchdown could have changed the whole game.

Schuylkill Haven dominated Tri-Valley.  Tri-Valley being the smaller school just couldn't keep up with Haven.

This week we only have 3 games to watch since 4 Schuylkill County Teams play each other.

11/15/13 - 7pm

Marian @ Mahanoy Area - (Eastern Conference Class A Championship)
North Schuylkill @ Northwestern Lehigh
Schuylkill Haven @ Williams Valley

Mahanoy City/Schuylkill County Native Elected to Lead Conference of Catholic Bishops

We reported last week that the Mahanoy City Native, Joseph Kurtz, was in the running to be elected to lead the United State Conference of Catholic Bishops.

The Morning Call is reported that he has won that election.

Kurtz is also a former Allentown Diocese Pastor.

Read more about it here
http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-catholic-bishop-conference-kurtz-20131112,0,2148940.story

Car Rear ends School Bus In Pottsville Tuesday Morning

This morning at the intersection of East Norwegian Street and North George street, a man with a reported medical condition rear ended a school bus.  Although a number wasn't given, there were students on the bus, but none were injured.

Along with hitting the bus, the man driving the car hit numerous vehicles along Norwegian street.