News from Berwick

BERWICK — A woman who drove wildly over a curb through a grassy area and onto a property was charged with drunken driving and accidents involving property damage, arrest papers say.

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BERWICK — After announcing the grant recipients of the first Disaster Relief Fund grant round earlier this week, the Central Susquehanna Community Foundation is preparing more efforts to...

BERWICK — A Berwick man already facing charges of brandishing a knife and threatening two women is accused of fabricating a story to police about a woman being raped and stabbed, according to...

BERWICK — A man allegedly high on drugs began to hit himself and throw himself against a refrigerator at a home, according to police.

Berwick Police said that when arrived at 124...

BERWICK —The Central Susquehanna Community Foundation announced the first round of grants awarded from the Disaster Relief Fund in response to the new coronavirus pandemic. Grants totaling $207...

BERWICK — A driver pulled over for tossing a lit cigarette out of his car has been charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, according to court papers.

Richard A. Welch...

BERWICK — A man confronted by police and asked whether he had anything illegal pulled a digital scale with white residue on it from a pocket, police say.

Police said they stopped...

BERWICK — Columbia County lost its first person outside a nursing home to the new coronavirus Saturday, coroners say.

Meanwhile, three more residents at Berwick Retirement Village have...

BERWICK — Even though there are no games tonight, the lights of Crispin Field and Ironmen Stadium will shine — in honor of the high school students whose senior year was cut short by the new...

BERWICK — Parents have been lining up an hour early to pick up packets of school work at the middle school here, the school’s principal says.

“It’s like a sold-out concert,” Principal...

BERWICK — A local restaurant is closing its regular kitchen tonight to give a free takeout meal to anyone who seeks it from 5 to 7 p.m.

Michael Monico, owner of Forge...

BERWICK — The school year for Berwick Area School District students will end June 5, and graduation is set for June 12 —although what form graduation ceremonies will take is very much up in the...

BERWICK — A Berwick man who ran his estranged wife off the road Tuesday originally claimed he was swerving to avoid hitting an animal, police said.

Carlos Pereira, 52, of 1145 Seventh...

BERWICK — School officials here are working to get computers into the hands of every middle school student before the end of this year, and hope to have all elementary students connected...

BERWICK — A fifth resident of Berwick Retirement Village has died of the new coronavirus, according to two county coroners.

So far, all the deaths attributed to the virus in Columbia...

BERWICK — Coronavirus has claimed the lives of two more Berwick Retirement Village residents, bringing Columbia County’s pandemic death toll to four.

All four who have died from the...

BERWICK — A man allegedly spit on a woman, twisted her wrist and threatened to punch her while she held her 2-month-old daughter, according to police.

When an elderly woman and her son...

BERWICK — It took just three days for a pair of Berwick businesses to join forces and launch a face-mask manufacturing enterprise that already has shipped 1,000 masks to customers in cities...

BERWICK — A mother and son confined to their small apartment for days by the statewide coronavirus shutdown got into a brawl over toilet paper, leading to assault charges against one, police...

BERWICK — A nursing home resident who was admitted to the Berwick Hospital with coronavirus has died, according to the Columbia County coroner.

It’s the first death from the virus to...