News from Berwick
Mon, 01/04/2021 - 00:00
BERWICK — The police department and other union workers will get 2.5% raises each of the next three years, but new police officers, sergeants and detectives will get extra boosts under new...
Mon, 01/04/2021 - 00:00
BERWICK — A pair of homeless brothers who’d been warned to stay away from their mother’s home returned and smashed a window, police say.
Matthew John Brown and Michael James Brown, both...
Sun, 01/03/2021 - 00:00
BERWICK — A law firm is seeking people who worked at Berwick Forge & Fabrication Corp. before 1981 who have been diagnosed with various cancers, saying they are entitled to special benefits...
Sat, 01/02/2021 - 00:00
BERWICK — Borough Council will meet at 7 p.m. on the first and third Mondays of every month in 2021, council unanimously voted at its December meeting.
Those meetings, however, will be...
Thu, 12/31/2020 - 00:00
BERWICK — Workers at Wise Foods teamed up with police Wednesday to capture a fugitive on the lam.
The vagrant in question was a wayward sheep. As of press time Wednesday, police still...
Tue, 12/29/2020 - 00:00
BERWICK — A two-week search for a man accused of raping and choking a woman ended Monday when a borough police patrolman chased him down.
Anthony Michael Maisey, 32, of 1147 Ferris Ave...
Tue, 12/29/2020 - 00:00
BERWICK — A Berwick man hit his ex-girlfriend in the face and threatened to damage her car, despite a court order forbidding him to contact her, police say.
Robert Joseph...
Mon, 12/28/2020 - 00:00
BERWICK — A 71-year-old woman is charged with assaulting her roommate, who had recently had hip surgery, by pushing and kicking her, police said.
Patricia Marie Slusser, 1151 Ferris...
Sun, 12/27/2020 - 00:00
BERWICK — A driver reportedly high on Fentanyl tried smoking an unlit cigarette, rolled the rear window down to speak to police, and told officers, “I agree,” when they suggested he was under...
Sun, 12/27/2020 - 00:00
BERWICK — The new owner of Berwick Hospital Center says she plans to grow all parts of the hospital, and has already invested in new services, including a COVID-19 testing system.
“...