COVID-19 hospitalizations statewide dropped by more than 200 and reached the lowest level locally since the week of Thanksgiving.
Monroe Township officials continue to work on ways to limit abuse of the municipal recycling and composting facilities while keeping the service available to residents.
TURBOTVILLE — Hundreds of students from 12 school districts gathered at Warrior Run School District on Tuesday to discuss ideas on how to make positive impacts on school culture and climate.
The Greater Susquehanna Valley YMCA’s reach expanded in 2021, even as the organization was limited with some of its programs for the second year in a row due to COVID-19.
The Department of Health registered 10,860 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday while the number of hospitalizations continued to decline statewide.
HARRISBURG —The Pennsylvania Cable Network (PCN) said it is bringing “complete, non-partisan coverage of the candidates and races that will impact” viewers, according to a release.
It’s no secret that public transportation is hard to come by in the Valley.
SHAMOKIN DAM — Old Trail Mercantile antique shop in Shamokin Dam has closed its doors after less than a year.
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MIDDLEBURG — A Port Trevorton man has declined the auditor position he was elected to in November after Snyder County District Attorney Michael Piecuch challenged his eligibility to serve in the role.
While a new report from the Department of Environment Protection says that a third of the state’s rivers and streams are impaired, there are some success stories in the Valley.
Pennsylvania nursing homes are having to turn people away due, in large part, to a staffing shortage and it’s having a widespread impact, health experts say.
At least 80 percent of residents at Valley nursing homes are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, while the vaccination rates for staffers at the facilities lag behind.
Some marchers held signs that read "I am the post-Roe generation," a statement that may never have been more true than it was at the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., on Friday.
While the number of COVID-19 cases among school-aged children dropped statewide this week for the first time since November, the number of cases in the Valley reached a record high.
The Department of Health recorded its largest increase in new COVID-19 cases in five days on Friday and another 269 Pennsylvanians have died due to complications from the coronavirus.
DANVILLE — Redeemer Orthodox Presbyterian Church is working with Samaritan’s Purse to help an Afghan refugee family settle in the local area.
SELINSGROVE — Vito Sanfilippo has filed a complaint in District Court seeking $10,110 he’s owed from Wood-Metal.
MIDDLEBURG — Family and friends of murder victims Heather Sue Campbell and Matthew T. Bowersox spoke emotionally of their loss during a recent plea and sentencing hearing in Snyder County Court for the man who ended their lives.
Many of the participants in the first Community Conversations series said they thought that the Valley was not very diverse, being primarily made up of a white demographic. United Way officials and data provided this week claimed it’s a matter of perspective.
Pennsylvania registered fewer than 20,000 new COVID-19 cases for the fourth consecutive day on Thursday, while also recording 326 deaths linked to the coronavirus.
SELINSGROVE — Snyder County law enforcement and probation officers are now available to assist addicts in seeking treatment without fear of arrest.
Pennsylvania recorded its highest total of new COVID-19 cases in three days on Wednesday while the number of local cases continued to stay at high levels.
The man found dead in Penns Creek on Friday has been identified by state police as Colby Cooper, 25, of Weleetka, Oklahoma.
A quick blast of snow could lead to a tough morning commute on Thursday.
SELINSGROVE — The Community Giving Foundation has added three new board of directors.
Midd-West High School students in Sean Snoddy’s technical education class are building everything from cutting boards to chicken coops.
Dauntless Hook & Ladder Co. is replacing one of its oldest vehicles with a new $1.49 million ladder truck.
PennDOT has plans to replace a 92-year-old deteriorating bridge in southern Snyder County at an estimated price of $3 million.
As final predictions called for, Valley residents woke up Monday morning to anywhere from two to five inches of heavy, wet snow and strong winds that knocked power out across the region.
LEWISBURG — A wintry mix of snow and freezing rain couldn’t stop Susquehanna University from teaching children about Martin Luther King Jr.
NEW BERIN — The New Berlin Borough Council has formed a committee to discuss feral cats in the town.
The Department of Health recorded fewer than 20,000 cases for the first time since late December on Monday, but still recorded 15,744 cases, a total higher than the previous record set in December 2020 before the current surge.
Speed limit restrictions remain in place on Valley highways, but most of the winter storm that swept through the area Sunday is gone and the Winter Weather Advisory expired at 10 a.m.
MIFFLINBURG — In just under two years, DIG Furniture Bank has impacted the lives of hundreds of Valley families.
When a lone gunman shot 10 young girls, killing five, inside an Amish one-room schoolhouse in Lancaster County on Oct. 2, 2006, before killing himself, a group of trained police peers was ready to help their colleagues who responded to the traumatic scene.
SUNBURY — A little luck and a shift in the weather pattern caused a potential major snowstorm to be downgraded heading into Sunday night, according to AccuWeather meteorologist John Gresiak.
The first bids for the southern section of the Central Susquehanna Valley Transportation project are expected to be awarded by April.
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More than 17.5 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in Pennsylvania over the past year and nearly three-quarters of all state residents 18 and older are fully vaccinated.
The Department of Health registered a record 32,381 COVID-19 cases among school-aged children statewide over the past week, a 58 percent increase over the previous record set a week ago. The four Valley counties each recorded their highest one-week totals of positive cases since the state be…
DANVILLE — A $3.2 million expansion of a highspeed internet network is ready for rural underserved residents of Montour, Northumberland, Snyder, Union and Columbia counties.
SELINSGROVE — State police at Selinsgrove are investigating the death of a man whose body was found in Penns Creek near the Green Bridge at Selinsgrove on Friday afternoon.
