News from Berwick

 | By Susan Schwartz
Thu, 11/14/2019 - 00:00

BERWICK — Tractor-trailer owners who want to park in this borough for more time than it takes to pick up or drop off deliveries will have to live in the borough and pay $100 per year.

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 | By Susan Schwartz
Wed, 11/13/2019 - 00:00

BERWICK — Some retired teachers who had been teaching as emergency substitutes in the school district came to Monday’s school board meeting to demand to know why directors suddenly slashed...


 | By Susan Schwartz
Wed, 11/13/2019 - 00:00

BERWICK — School directors here narrowly voted Tuesday to appoint Joseph DeMelfi to fill a vacant seat at their table, passing over Dann McGann, who resigned...


 | By Susan Schwartz
Wed, 11/13/2019 - 00:00

BERWICK — Students will be able to have free breakfast even when there is a 2-hour delay, officials said during Monday night’s school board meeting here.

Business Manager Renee...


 | By Susan Schwartz
Tue, 11/12/2019 - 00:00

BERWICK — Commonwealth Health Berwick Hospital Center has earned its certification as stroke-ready, meaning its staff can recognize and treat acute symptoms of stroke victims quickly.

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 | By The Press Enterprise Staff
Tue, 11/12/2019 - 00:00

BERWICK — A 54-year-old man forced a mentally challenged teenager to have sex with him at knifepoint over the course of two months, police said.

Charles W. Weaver Jr., 205 E. Seventh...


 | By Susan Schwartz
Tue, 11/12/2019 - 00:00

BERWICK — The president of the Berwick school board and its longest serving member both resigned Monday night.

President Donald Butz turned in his resignation Monday, apologizing for...


 | By The Press Enterprise Staff
Mon, 11/11/2019 - 00:00

BERWICK — Two men face drug-related charges after one of them was caught on surveillance video snorting heroin from a table of the McBride Memorial Library, police said.

Just before...


 | By The Press Enterprise Staff
Fri, 11/08/2019 - 00:00

BERWICK — The Kmart here is on a list of 96 Kmart and Sears stores that the owner plans to shut down in the new year.

Transformco, the company that now owns Sears Holding Corp. put out...


 | By Susan Schwartz
Fri, 11/08/2019 - 00:00

BERWICK — A judge dismissed the case Thursday against one of two half-brothers accused of beating a woman to death, while the other will face homicide and related charges in county court.

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