Impact fee collections during 2024 were down by $15 million from where they were the year prior, according to the latest information released by the PA Independent Fiscal Office (IFO). In 2024, the ...

Play continued in the District 15 Little League playoffs for four Roosevelt Trail League (RTL) teams and the Elk Lake Major Baseball squad. Major Baseball RTL concluded Mid-East pool play with a ...

As I sit down to this sturdy old keyboard, my faithful companion, Maizie the Magnificent, is sprawled full length on the floor beside my chair. She is a nine-year-old Sheltie who has spent her ...

Pope Leo IV addressed fellow Americans through a prerecorded video message at Rate Field, the home of his favorite baseball team, the Chicago White Sox. In addressing young people especially... We're ...

Have you ever been to Engagement, Ohio? I have to go to a wedding there but don’t know much about the place. —TOWANDA TRAVELER DEAR TOW: Engagement is between Dayton and Marion. —ALICE *... We're ...

When you want to get the straight story from the news, which news outlet do you read? Some are obviously more reliable than others, and all are biased at some level, but if you want to know what ...

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Photo by Mary Gabriel An annual tradition in Noxen continued on Thursday, June 19 through Sunday, June 22 as the Noxen Volunteer Fire Co. held its annual rattlesnake roundup. The four-day festival ...

BaldwinWallace University Rose Bolt of LeRaysville, a graduate of Horseheads High School majoring in history, has been named to the Dean’s List for the spring 2025 semester at Baldwin Wallace ...

Commonwealth University congratulates more than 1,550 students who graduated during the Spring 2025 semester. Among those graduating in the Rocket-Courier coverage area were: Bloomsburg Campus Daisy ...

Photo by David Keeler Gas Up at The Friedy Here’s a look back at the Friedenshutten mini mart and gas station shortly after it opened in June of 1989. The business’s unusual name comes from the ...

The thermometer Monday afternoon outside the Church Street office of Wyalusing’s PS Bank confirms what many people already knew—it was hotter than blazes. The record-breaking heat wave walloped ...