News from Berwick

 | By Susan Schwartz
Wed, 04/13/2016 - 00:00

BERWICK — School directors here are planning to cut taxes next year — a move almost unheard of, especially this year, when state funding is in doubt and required pension payments are rising....


 | By Julye Wemple
Wed, 04/13/2016 - 00:00

BERWICK — Naomi Kaiser says she was “shocked” to hear her son had been arrested for threatening to cut the baby out of his pregnant wife during an argument in late March....


Wed, 04/13/2016 - 00:00

BERWICK — Borough Police responded to these calls from April 3-9:

April 3

• 2:58 a.m. — 100 block South Vine Street, domestic

• 3:17 a.m. — 300 block...


 | By Julye Wemple
Wed, 04/13/2016 - 00:00

BERWICK — A man accused of holding a steak knife to his wife’s throat told a judge Monday that jail “is not very fun.”

Barry Augustine, 37, has been in Columbia County...


 | By Susan Schwartz
Wed, 04/13/2016 - 00:00

BERWICK — School directors here are planning to cut taxes next year — a move almost unheard of, especially this year, when state funding is in doubt and required pension payments are rising....


 | By Julye Wemple
Wed, 04/13/2016 - 00:00

BERWICK — Naomi Kaiser says she was “shocked” to hear her son had been arrested for threatening to cut the baby out of his pregnant wife during an argument in late March....


Wed, 04/13/2016 - 00:00

BERWICK — Borough Police responded to these calls from April 3-9:

April 3

• 2:58 a.m. — 100 block South Vine Street, domestic

• 3:17 a.m. — 300 block...


 | By Julye Wemple
Wed, 04/13/2016 - 00:00

BERWICK — A man accused of holding a steak knife to his wife’s throat told a judge Monday that jail “is not very fun.”

Barry Augustine, 37, has been in Columbia County...


 | By Julye Wemple
Tue, 04/12/2016 - 00:00

BERWICK — A Berwick man accused of creating a homemade arsenal that included exploding arrow bombs saw his most serious charge — possessing weapons of mass destruction — dropped Monday.

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 | By Julye Wemple
Tue, 04/12/2016 - 00:00

BERWICK — A 75-year-old borough man sexually abused a little girl eight years ago, telling police he would “play around with her vagina,” arrest papers say.

Jack Wall, 216 S. Warren St...