News from Berwick

 | By The Press Enterprise Staff
Mon, 03/26/2018 - 00:00

BERWICK — A Berwick woman who was planning to sell salt as meth was arrested for possession of a counterfeit controlled substance and drug paraphernalia, according to court documents.

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 | By The Press Enterprise Staff
Mon, 03/26/2018 - 00:00

BERWICK — A Berwick woman who allegedly punched another woman in the face while attempting to gain entrance to a home on East Second Street is charged with attempted criminal trespass and...


Sun, 03/25/2018 - 00:00

BERWICK — Defender Fire Co. trustees quietly rewrote the company bylaws in March 2016, removing a safeguard designed to protect its finances, records show.

At the same time, they also...


 | By Susan Schwartz
Sun, 03/25/2018 - 00:00

BERWICK — A father accused of allowing a child to find a notebook with writings expressing the desire to produce child pornography became upset recently when a judge refused to lower his bail...


 | By Susan Schwartz
Sun, 03/25/2018 - 00:00

BERWICK — As treasurer of Defender Fire Co., the late Dennis Slusser wrote numerous checks to himself, a letter from an accounting firm says.

And the fire company doesn’t appear to have...


Sun, 03/25/2018 - 00:00

BERWICK — The 1951 Mack truck that Defender’s Fire Co. donated to the National Fire Museum in Harrisburg is scheduled to return to the Berwick area.

Council members agreed to pay $3,172...


 | By Susan Schwartz
Sat, 03/24/2018 - 00:00

BERWICK — Vandals have defaced the mausoleum holding the bones of William Hartman Woodin, one of Berwick’s most famous natives.

Woodin was the U.S. Secretary of Treasury under President...


Sat, 03/24/2018 - 00:00

BERWICK — A Berwick woman whose vehicle struck the front bumper of a police car during a traffic stop had marijuana inside her car, according to court documents.

Maranda...


Fri, 03/23/2018 - 00:00

BERWICK — The owner of a restaurant and bar quietly agreed to forego her preliminary hearing on her second drunken driving charge.

Julie Hess Rishkofski, 46, of 112 D...


 | By Susan Schwartz
Fri, 03/23/2018 - 00:00

BERWICK — A man who allegedly threatened his neighbor because he thought the LED light bulbs in her apartment were heating up his floor until it burned his feet saw the most serious charges...