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The best cigars and Red Skelton at the Colony By Tim Colliver - tcolliver@aimmediamidwest.com Editor’s note — We’re continuing our tradition of taking a look back each Saturday at some of the important, interesting or even odd events as they were reported during the same week throughout the years, along with interesting advertising features from back in the day. This week in 1886, the Hillsborough Gazette reported that J.M. Jones had a small tobacco shop at 28 S. High St. in Hillsboro, an...

Share this article Share this article SINKING SPRING, Pa., Jan. 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Caliber Ophthalmics, a Surgical Specialties Corporation company, is pleased to announce the opening of a state of the art ophthalmology design and manufacturing Center of Excellence in Sinking Spring, PA. The newly renovated 23,000 square foot facility has a clean room for precision manufacturing of medical devices, an engineering design center, and advanced blade manufacturing capabilities. The site combin...

Read / Add Comments Pennsylvania officials announced three dozen more restaurants that have closed following defiance of the state’s COVID-19 mitigation measures. The Department of Agriculture earlier this week said the 36 restaurants violated an indoor dining ban -- which was lifted Jan. 4 -- following unannounced inspections from Dec. 28 through Jan. 3. Gov. Wolfs temporary COVID-19 mitigation order mandated the closure of indoor dining, gyms and limiting indoor gatherings to...

Jan 7, 2021 >>COVID-19 Cases Continue To Spike In Pennsylvania (Harrisburg, PA) -- Positive COVID-19 cases are increasing in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Department of Health announced almost 9,500 new positive cases yesterday. The statewide total number of cases is now over 683,000 since the pandemic started. There are currently more than 5,600 people in the state who are hospitalized with the coronavirus. >>Harrisburg Man Pleads Guilty To Williamsport Shooting Case (Harrisburg, PA) --...

Jan 7, 2021 >>COVID-19 Cases Continue To Spike In Pennsylvania (Harrisburg, PA) -- Positive COVID-19 cases are increasing in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Department of Health announced almost 9,500 new positive cases yesterday. The statewide total number of cases is now over 683,000 since the pandemic started. There are currently more than 5,600 people in the state who are hospitalized with the coronavirus. >>Harrisburg Man Pleads Guilty To Williamsport Shooting Case (Harrisburg, PA) --...

Six Lancaster County restaurants were among 36 businesses the state ordered to close for defying COVID-19 restrictions during Gov. Tom Wolf’s indoor dining ban which ended Monday. One closure notice was issued by Lancaster city, which conducts its own inspections.  The “closed by notice” orders from the state Department of Agriculture were issued for the week ending Jan. 3, the day before the temporary order banning indoor dining expired. With six restaurants ordered to close,...

The Appalachian Highway, long shots and sluggings By Tim Colliver - tcolliver@aimmediamidwest.com Editor’s note — We’re continuing our tradition of taking a look back each Saturday at some of the important, interesting or even odd events as they were reported during the same week throughout the years, along with interesting advertising features from back in the day. This week in 1948, an article appearing in what was then The News Herald under the headline, “Youth captured after sluggin...

The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture keeps records of food safety inspections at restaurants and food vendors. Berks County is divided into three jurisdictions: Reading, Muhlenberg Township and the rest of the county. Reading and Muhlenberg Township have their own inspectors and the rest of the county is inspected by Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture inspectors. The results will be posted every other week. All food vendors are inspected at least once a year. Other inspections c...

SINKING SPRING, Pa. - Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf announced Wednesday that he will not be extending the targeted coronavirus mitigation efforts he put in place on Dec. 12. "This is during the heaviest part of the Christmas, New Years, Kwanzaa celebration season, and the hope is that by next Monday, that well have had the effect of actually flattening the curve," the governor told reporters during a news briefing. "The fight against this dangerous disease is not over. We all need to stay the cour...

The proposed 2021 tax rate remains at 4.6 mills. “This Council has made some moves to save costs for some people in the Borough during our economic downturn this summer going into the fall this year,” said Council Vice President Derek Mace. “I think we’ve asked the Borough staff to some things to help residents and to protect themselves and still the budget has managed to come out to be a fairly good situation. We’re a little behind it but it’s a good budget and we...