The landscape appeared as a painting under the sun..
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Getting down to monkey business: CDC warns those who touched monkeys in Danville as health officials work to track down motorists who came in contact
Now that the jokes and memes have been made, it seems time to get down to serious discussion over CDC and health official warnings to those who were near the Danville monkeys
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30 years ago: Gilberton’s brief brush with fame in NOTHING BUT TROUBLE
Valentine’s Day 1991: SILENCE OF THE LAMBS vs NOTHING BUT TROUBLE in box offices..
A stroll back in time to when “Valkenvania” was based on Centralia and filmed scenes in Gilberton
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One of Schuylkill County’s oldest breweries: 87 years in the making!!
Pure Springs Brewery Co existed in Fountain Springs, PA. It was destroyed by fire, and tied in to illegal operations of a brewery, and connected to the Minker and Genelli alcohol crime syndicates.
Pure Springs remains an active corporations even until today.
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SKOOKY THINGS (TINGS) EPISODE 3: THE WITCH OF THE RINGTOWN VALLEY
SKOOKY ‘TINGS’ EPISPODE 3
A shotgun fired through a window of the home of Susan Mummey on March 17, 1934. She was 63 when she died from the blast.
You thought Salem was bad!?
Welcome to Ringtown!!
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THE GREAT MALL ON THE HILL, 40 YEARS LATER: A unique history of the mall before, during, and after its existence
40 years later: We wonder now, as Frackville’s Lehigh Ave descends into ruins, and a brand new building that was supposed to house a major distribution center remains unclaimed, was the Schuylkill Mall worth it? Was this mall, this shining fabled building on a hill, worth the price of admission?
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