POTTSVILLE — The ongoing county reassessment project will conclude by mid-November, project director Tim Barr said Wednesday. Barr, representing Vision Government Solutions, the company hired to do a county-wide reassessment project, provided an update on reassessment at the latest weekly meeting of the county commissioners. The final property values were mailed to residents by July…
SCHUYLKILL HAVEN — A ‘Welcome Back’ sign over the entrance greeted customers Friday, opening day of the new Sheetz convenience store on Route 61 and Manheim Road. Customers flocked to get a glimpse of the new 6,130-square-foot store, about 13% larger than the previous store at the same location. Sheetz demolished the old store in…
POTTSVILLE — When Tom Hartz was a young lad in the 1950s, dragline power shovels had pretty much replaced the hardy miners that harvested coal hundreds of feet beneath the earth’s surface. Still, growing up in the coal fields of Luzerne County, the young Hartz developed a deep respect for miners who toiled amid darkness…