Schuylkill County School Delays - 02/10/16

Schuylkill County School Delays and Closings  - 02/10/16

Assumption BVM - 2 Hour Delay

Blue Mountain - 2 Hour Delay

Gillingham Charter - 2 Hour Delay

Mahanoy Area - 2 Hour Delay

Minersville - 2 Hour Delay

Nativity BVM - 2 Hour Delay

North Schuylkill - 2 Hour Delay

Pine Grove - 2 Hour Delay

Pottsville - 2 Hour Delay

Schuylkill Haven - 2 Hour Delay

Schuylkill Maple Ave - 2 Hour Delay

Schuylkill Tech North and South - 2 Hour Delay

Shenandoah Valley - 2 Hour Delay

St. Ambrose / Schuylkill Haven - 2 Hour Delay

St. Jerome / Tamaqua - 2 Hour Delay

St. Clair - 2 Hour Delay

Tamaqua - 2 Hour Delay

Tri-Valley - 2 Hour Delay

Trinity Academy - 2 Hour Delay

Williams Valley - 2 Hour Delay

Wanted Man Turns Himself In

On February 8th, 2016 Frackville Borough Police were summoned to Magisterial District Judge Christina Hale’s office, Frackville, where a wanted person wished to turn himself in.

Schuylkill County Snow Emergencies and Parking Bans - 02/09/2016

Schuylkill County Snow Emergencies and Parking Bans - 02/09/2016

Fifth Man Pleads Guilty To Participating In Heroin Trafficking Conspiracy

SCRANTON—The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 25-year-old Shenandoah resident connected to a large-scale heroin trafficking ring that operated in Schuylkill County during 2012 through September 2015, pleaded guilty today before Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley in Scranton.

Interstate 81 Closed Due to Tractor Trailer Rollover

Around 2:00pm Tuesday afternoon, Interstate 81 both north and southbound between the Hegins and Tower City exits due to a tractor trailer rollover at Milemarker 107-108.

There are reports of multiple accidents in the area.

UPDATE:  The Interstate is reported to be shut down at Northbound Milemarker 104 (Ravine).

UPDATE(9:30PM) - interstate is now open in both directions.

More details when they are available.

The back-up on Interstate 81 South is roughly two miles long. Traffic is completely stopped pic.twitter.com/dPGlwqYpdQ

— Eric Deabill (@ericdeabill) February 9, 2016

LCCC Hosts National Hispanic College Fair

Schnecksville, Pa., Feb. 8, 2016 –Lehigh Carbon Community College (LCCC) will partner with Career Council Inc. as it hosts a national college fair focused on assisting Hispanic and Latino students with college education choices. This event will be held on Thursday, March 3, from 9 a.m. to noon, in Berrier Hall, at main campus in Schnecksville, Pa.

National Hispanic College Fairs Inc.® was founded in 1998 to assist the rapidly growing Hispanic/Latino population in obtaining access to a college education. Today, CC/NHCF serves 125,000 students and 1,800 colleges/universities in over 50 locations across the United States every year.

The college fairs bring admissions representatives from a broad range of colleges/universities and vocational training institutions to high school juniors and seniors, providing them a unique opportunity to become aware of their many options and to compare the offerings of participating institutions. Students are provided with current available scholarship and grant information. Partnership with the Hispanic Scholarship Fund helps minority students gain the widest access to the resources available to them.

For more information on the National Hispanic College Fair, please contact LCCC’s Admissions office at admissions@lccc.edu or 610-799-1575.

Beyoncé to Bring Formation World Tour to Hershey

Beyoncé will bring her highly anticipated The Formation World Tour to HersheyparkStadium on Sunday, June 12 at 6:00 p.m.