VALLEY VIEW - The possibility of Redner's Warehouse Markets moving into the former Midway Supermarket is getting a little closer to reality.
A special meeting of the Hegins Township Planning Commission will be held Thursday, May 17, at 6 p.m. at the Hegins Township Building, located at 421 Gap Street, to consider subdivision plans and all other matters that come before the board.
"We are aggressively pursuing that store and negotiations and lease agreements are on-going," Eric B. White, Consumer Communications Specialist for Redner's, said in an April 27 phone interview with The Citizen-Standard.
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HEGINS - The Tri-Valley Community Pool, located on South Goodspring Road, received some freshening up in anticipation of the season opener on Saturday, May 26.
Last week a crew from the Schuylkill County Court of Common Pleas Work Release Program worked at the pool by painting the fence, light posts, railings, cleaning out and repainting the concession stand, pressure washing benches and decking, all for no cost to the Tri-Valley community.
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TREMONT - Tremont Borough Council hired another part-time officer May 8, staffing its police department again with four officers.
Christopher Taylor, Palo Alto, will fill the position left vacant by the resignation of John Stanton who resigned due to a change in his full-time work requirements before he could even begin his duties. Other part-time officers include Greg Pijar, Pine Grove, and Beau Yarmush, Hegins. Police Chief Michael Conway is the borough's only full-time officer.
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LAVELLE - The Schuylkill County coroner on Friday released the name of the victim in a fatal car crash in Barry Township on Thursday afternoon, May 10, and the state police identified the driver.
Schuylkill County Coroner Dr. David Moylan identified the deceased as Kevin Holmes, 17, of Airport Road, Ashland, and said he was a student at Tri-Valley High School.
Trooper Caleb Huber said Dillon K. Doyle, 18, of Hegins, was driving the 2004 Dodge Neon that crashed on Deep Creek Road about 5:30 p.m., ejecting and killing Holmes.
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TOWER CITY - Reducing the full-time janitorial staff for the second and third shifts are among the cost-saving measures Williams Valley School Board members will consider as part of the $14.1 million proposed preliminary budget unanimously approved May 10. The proposed 2012-13 spending plan also includes a slight real estate tax hike.
Under the preliminary budget, expenditures total $14,108,840 and revenues total $13,620,283. Business Manager Homer Knox said the revenue figures changed slightly from those presented during the April 26 board meeting, and as reported in the May 3 edition of The Citizen-Standard. The revenues were slightly increased upward, based on an adjustment made for anticipated real estate taxes, according to Knox.
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