News from Berwick

BERWICK — Tractor-trailer owners who want to park in this borough for more time than it takes to pick up or drop off deliveries will have to live in the borough and pay $100 per year.

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BERWICK — Students will be able to have free breakfast even when there is a 2-hour delay, officials said during Monday night’s school board meeting here.

Business Manager Renee...

BERWICK — School directors here narrowly voted Tuesday to appoint Joseph DeMelfi to fill a vacant seat at their table, passing over Dann McGann, who resigned...

BERWICK — Some retired teachers who had been teaching as emergency substitutes in the school district came to Monday’s school board meeting to demand to know why directors suddenly slashed...

BERWICK — The president of the Berwick school board and its longest serving member both resigned Monday night.

President Donald Butz turned in his resignation Monday, apologizing for...

BERWICK — A 54-year-old man forced a mentally challenged teenager to have sex with him at knifepoint over the course of two months, police said.

Charles W. Weaver Jr., 205 E. Seventh...

BERWICK — Commonwealth Health Berwick Hospital Center has earned its certification as stroke-ready, meaning its staff can recognize and treat acute symptoms of stroke victims quickly.

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BERWICK — Two men face drug-related charges after one of them was caught on surveillance video snorting heroin from a table of the McBride Memorial Library, police said.

Just before...

BERWICK — A judge dismissed the case Thursday against one of two half-brothers accused of beating a woman to death, while the other will face homicide and related charges in county court.

BERWICK — The Kmart here is on a list of 96 Kmart and Sears stores that the owner plans to shut down in the new year.

Transformco, the company that now owns Sears Holding Corp. put out...

BERWICK — Tenants Brian Long and Geraldine Beitz were ordered in district court here to pay landlord Rhodes Street Mobile Home Park $2,165 in...

BERWICK — Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts in Troop and Pack 88 will be collecting non-perishable food items Saturday for the Hope Center’s food cupboard.

The Scouts put door knockers on...

BERWICK — Winterfest and the Santa Parade will be held this year, but on a different day and under different management, organizers said.

The Berwick Area United Way, which oversaw the...

BERWICK — Police dropped drug charges against one man after another man took the rap for crystal meth and drug paraphernalia found in a 2008 Chevy van during a July 11 traffic stop.

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BERWICK — It appears Scott Bower will move from the audience to the council table.

The long-time council watcher will serve with Jay Jarrett and...

BERWICK — Councilman Andrew Shecktor has been cited again for failing to fix his broken sidewalk by the end of a 30-day extension the rest of council gave him.

The Oct. 17 citation was...

BERWICK — Four candidates’ names will appear on the ballot for Berwick Borough Council, but one says he is no longer running.

Raymond Bores, 79, of 1626 Brittain St., said he was...

BERWICK — It’s too late to get Raymond Bores ’ name off the ballot, which means he could still be elected to Berwick Borough Council, even though he told a reporter he is...

BERWICK — The “Live On-Alumni Basketball Game” in Remembrance of Steve Mark Nastelli will be held at 6 p.m. Nov. 9 in the Berwick Varsity Gym.

Any former Berwick girls basketball player...

BERWICK — A Berwick man who hit his pregnant girlfriend in the face several times because he didn’t like the way she was folding baby clothes is facing assault charges, police said.

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