Yuengling Brewery is thinking about leaving Pennsylvania.. Again, I don’t want to get into it much, nor do I want to give a personal opinion, besides this: I want Yuengling to stay in Pennsylvania and don’t see a reason why it wouldn’t. The coal region is filled with hard working folks that will do what … Read moreI don’t want to get into this issue too much except to link this…
I suppose only it’s in the coal region during summer that a Saturday night out means you come home with your clothes reeking of butter and onions and your skin has a healthy sheen of bleenie. Blind pigeons, perogies, halushki, and fries.. You can’t avoid them no matter how hard you try. Long live block … Read moreLife in the coal region: Block party mania.
This site so many times focuses on the world, and many times the universe, but neglects the news of my locality. The name is “coal speaker” for a reason.. this is based out of the deep dark mines of Pennsylvania. And today, those deep dark mines had a tragedy. Four people, three of them children–and … Read more
NOW it’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas … Coal region covered in white this morning.. Couldn’t be nicer.
Monday after Thanksgiving. Deer season beginning in my neck of the coal region, schools are all closed. I may wear orange just for protection–and stay in the basement to protect myself from stray bullets. I myself don’t hunt or like venison but here’s hoping that if you do hunt, you’ll shoot a large Bambi, eat … Read more
King’s Plaza in Minersville, PA, which is the home to one of the greatest restaurants in the Coal Region: Palermos. I wanted pizza today, too.. Guess that won’t work out. (Photo from WNEP Facebook Wall Photos)
I know what the projections say.. I know they are talking about rivers being dangerously above flood levels–and the highest since Agnes in ‘72. But something deep down thinks their projections are off a bit and the river levels may end up being higher than projected.. What is troubling me is the rain pattern, how … Read moreRiver worries..
If you live in the Coal Region, Wilkes Barre, PA, Harrisburg PA, Hershey PA, Dillsburg, PA, York, PA.. anywhere in Eastern PA.. Halzeton.. you name it.. all the way up to Eastern New York, all the way down the Maryland border: IF you don’t have to go out, or are not currently being evacuated due … Read moreA cautionary tale with no exaggeration
In your face America: The Coal Region has something that few others do. (Besides mounds of rock and leftover sulfur rivers from abandoned coal mines of course) A digital drive in! That’s right, The Schuylkill Mall in Frackville, PA, will have a digital drive in as of August 12.. There were only four of these in … Read moreThe coal region gets a black eye for lack of things to do .. but this new thing to do is pretty cool
You’ll never know where you’ll find a meth lad these days! It could be.. your backyard.. It could be a restaurant that has a hotel over top—a restaurant with a cute little grandmother figure standing outside watching for danger. This one, unfortunately, passed granny by. The site: Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania; Frackville. Granny’s Motel: Cops swooped … Read more