News from Berwick

 | By Susan Schwartz
Tue, 03/21/2017 - 00:00

BERWICK — Residents who want to split from Hazleton Area School District have been sounding out school directors here to see if Berwick Area School District would take them in.

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 | By Julye Wemple
Mon, 03/20/2017 - 00:00

BERWICK — For months, Dawn and Mark Keifer and business partner Mike Digiandomenico walked past the old Weikel’s Restaurant on Walnut Street.

Together, the trio purchased the building...


Sat, 03/18/2017 - 00:00

BERWICK — First Reformed UCC, 301 W. Second St., will not hold services this Sunday because of a lack of parking and for the safety for its parishioners, officials said. Services will resume...


Sat, 03/18/2017 - 00:00

BERWICK — Borough Police responded to the following calls from Feb. 26-March 4.

Feb. 26

• 3:01 a.m. — 400 block East Eighth Street, domestic

• 3:17 a....


 | By Leon Bogdan
Thu, 03/16/2017 - 00:00

BERWICK — Antonio Baratta didn’t hesitate to act when he saw a man running away from Boyer’s Food Market here with a woman’s purse last Saturday.

Baratta stepped on the gas and chased...


Thu, 03/16/2017 - 00:00

BERWICK — Susquehanna Valley Medical Specialties, Bloomsburg, has filed civil complaints in the office of District Judge Richard Knecht against the following...


Thu, 03/16/2017 - 00:00

BERWICK — A 27-year-old man hit a Jeep while he was trying to change lanes in a borrowed car, then fled the scene, police here say.

But the Jeep’s driver followed Stanley...


 | By the Press Enterprise staff
Thu, 03/16/2017 - 00:00

BERWICK — A Berwick man offered a woman heroin in exchange for sex, then wrecked his car when he became paranoid and tried to drive off with her in the car, arrest papers say.

He ran...


 | By Susan Schwartz
Thu, 03/16/2017 - 00:00

BERWICK — A couple was chased out of bed and into the freezing predawn Wednesday after their central vacuuming system caught fire.

Brielle Concini, 35, and her boyfriend, Jeff Ashworth...


 | By Julye Wemple
Wed, 03/15/2017 - 00:00

BERWICK — Crews were working 12-hour shifts throughout the day and night to keep Berwick’s roads open, but the battering winter storm still left them “in horrible condition” as of Tuesday...