These are three telling headlines in today’s POTTSVILLE REPUBLICAN AND HERALD.. A factory closing, a school having issues, and yet another store in the Frackville Schuylkill Mall shutting doors..  There was an old adage about the coal region of Pennsylvania: There’s a church and bar on every street corner. These days the churches have shuddered … Read more

Box Office: ‘Catching Fire’ Ablaze Friday With $70.5 Million

The good, the bad, and the ugly. HUNGER GAMES is setting some box office theaters on proverbial fire with a pre-Thanksgiving weekend romp.. It’s going to be a big movie when final numbers come out. Just in my little neck of the woods, the theater at the Schuylkill Mall in Frackville PA actually devoted all … Read moreBox Office: ‘Catching Fire’ Ablaze Friday With $70.5 Million

The coal region gets a black eye for lack of things to do .. but this new thing to do is pretty cool

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