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April 8, 2020 THE COAL SPEAKER

Goodbye Graffiti Brick Road: The life and times of Route 61 in Centralia

MAN CAN MAKE NOTHING THAT NATURE CAN’T DESTROY. That was what one of the first ever pieces of graffiti on

March 1, 2020 THE COAL SPEAKER

Frank Staudenmeier, RIP

The death of Schuylkill county commissioner Frank Staudenmeier is starting to sink in..

News began to rumor through mills late Saturday that Staudenmeier passed away while vacationing with family in Florida..

The worst of situations greeting what should have been the most joyful of situations..

Since that moment when the news broke to the local reading area, quiet contemplation and prayer has forced so many who knew and loved the Commissioner to realize that this, really, is real.

February 18, 2020 THE COAL SPEAKER

Old faithful: The geyser erupts from a hole in a drainage pipe that directs storm water and mine water from the mountain, under local streets and into the the nearby Mahanoy Creek .. You may have another name for that body of local water.

January 19, 2020 THE COAL SPEAKER

A taste for the past

The top ten past coal region restaurants that are still missed today

January 12, 2020 THE COAL SPEAKER

We didn’t start the fire! The $40,000 club house

According to the REPUBLICAN, curious onlookers even drove right onto the golf course as they tried to get a look at the burned down Country Club structure… new golf balls were even stolen.. It was quickly decided to rebuild! By October 1970, Draco Development created a new structure.. and from that point a new history..

January 4, 2020 THE COAL SPEAKER

Vacant buildings and what to do about them

These are the big three.. but they don’t end there.. There are countless properties like these..

So what do we do?
Where do we go from here?

Are these eyesores just going to stay where they are? Remain as they were..? relics of a time gone, and no changes coming to change then, reestablish them, or raze them?