News from Berwick

Sat, 05/06/2017 - 00:00

BERWICK — The Ber-Vaughn pool is offering adaptive swim times and swimming lessons, as well as a chance to become a deputy lifeguard, to people with handicaps this summer.

“It’s...


 | By Susan Schwartz
Sat, 05/06/2017 - 00:00

BERWICK — A lawyer tried but failed Monday to win dismissal of a drunken driving charge for his client, whose license is suspended because of a previous DUI in which he struck and killed a...


 | By Susan Schwartz
Fri, 05/05/2017 - 00:00

BERWICK — A partnership between the attorney general’s office and Berwick that led to the arrests of 475 people on narcotics charges abruptly ended at the beginning of this year, the police...


Fri, 05/05/2017 - 00:00

BERWICK — Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro said he plans to take on large pharmaceutical companies for their role in the opioid epidemic sweeping the state.

“They are...


 | By Leon Bogdan
Fri, 05/05/2017 - 00:00

BERWICK — It took “substantial force” for police to arrest a man who they caught breaking into Bob’s Philly Style Subs early Thursday, charges say.

By the end of officers’ scuffle with...


Thu, 05/04/2017 - 00:00

BERWICK — A Berwick man is accused of brutally kicking his girlfriend after a fight last month.

Dorothy McGovern told police she and Robert K. Staab...


 | By Julye Wemple
Wed, 05/03/2017 - 00:00

BERWICK — For four years, Dorothy Koscelnick has been letting garbage pile up in the yard of her Brittain Street home, court papers say. And for just as long, the codes office has been citing...


Wed, 05/03/2017 - 00:00

BERWICK — McBride Memorial Library is marking the unofficial punny Star Wars holiday Thursday, May the 4th — as in, “May the 4th be with you.”

Teens can bring their choices of light-...


 | By The Press Enterprise Staff
Tue, 05/02/2017 - 00:00

BERWICK — A couple accused of selling cigarettes tax-free will face the charges in county court.

Roxanne D. and Blaise William Olah, both 53, of 3808 Ridge Road,...


Tue, 05/02/2017 - 00:00

BERWICK — When police served an arrest warrant for Perry Daniel Harmon, 26, of Berwick, April 19 at 341 Pearl St., they found a Crown Royal bag in his sweatshirt pocket...