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Michael Urban

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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Michael Urban

    Two charged with animal cruelty for abandoning dogs at Hillside SPCA (opens the original)

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    Two Schuylkill County women face animal cruelty charges after leaving two dogs in a crate at Hillside SPCA after hours. The incident occurred Monday night at the shelter along SPCA Road in North Manheim Township, state police said. Rosa Simmons, 49, and Jasmine Sadusky, 23, both of Brockton, have since been charged with animal cruelty and with transporting animals in a cruel manner after investigators used surveillance footage from the shelter to identify them, troopers said. Hillside dog manage

  2. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Michael Urban

    Groundbreaking ceremony held for Starbucks, Texas Roadhouse in North Manheim (opens the original)

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    The days when one will be able to buy caffe lattes from Starbucks and steak dinners from Texas Roadhouse in Schuylkill County moved a step closer Wednesday with a groundbreaking ceremony held where those businesses will locate along Route 61 in North Manheim Township. The property, which had been an unsightly public safety hazard since a hotel there burned down seven years ago, is being transformed into Indian Rock Landing by Miller Bros. Construction of Schuylkill Haven, which owns the site. Th

  3. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Michael Urban

    Demolition of Hillside SPCA’s large dog building underway with new facility to come (opens the original)

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    The bucket of an excavating machine banging through the roof of the building where Hillside SPCA housed large dogs for 40 years signaled the start of an exciting new era for the Schuylkill County shelter, officials there said. The powder blue cinder-block building, so familiar to anyone who has visited the North Manheim Township facility since it opened, was damaged so extensively that state Department of Agriculture inspectors ordered it shut down in July, giving the shelter until early fall to

  4. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Michael Urban

    Schuylkill County faces another sexual misconduct suit related to former commissioner Halcovage (opens the original)

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    A cleaning contractor has filed a federal lawsuit against Schuylkill County which accuses former Commissioner George F. Halcovage Jr. of sexually harassing and assaulting her at work, and which claims three county officials did not properly investigate her complaints. The plaintiff, who was identified in court papers only as “Jane Doe,” filed the suit Friday against the county, Halcovage, County Administrator Gary Bender, Human Resources Director Anthony Kern, and former Human Services Director

  5. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Michael Urban

    Schuylkill County schools preparing for possible measles cases in students (opens the original)

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    With the state this week confirming Schuylkill County’s first measles case in more than two decades, local school districts have been planning for students potentially coming to school with the virus. Until Monday, there had been no verified cases of measles in Schuylkill since at least 2003, when the state began keeping electronic disease records. Schuylkill was the 39th county where measles was confirmed this year in Pennsylvania. The Keystone State has had 835 cases and four measles-attribute

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