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Coaldale, Lansford, Tamaqua Sue Over Lights Deal

Coaldale, Tamaqua and Lansford are suing a Lackawanna County firm that they say reneged on a deal that had promised substantial savings by leasing street lights from PPL and kept hundreds of thousands of dollars the struggling towns paid them up-front for the project.

Michael S. Greek, who serves as solicitor for the towns, filed the 86-page lawsuits Monday afternoon against Municipal Energy Managers of Moscow and company principles Robert J. Kearns and Patrick J. McLaine in Schuylkill County court on behalf of Coaldale and Tamaqua, and in Carbon County court on Lansford's behalf.

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FBI Investigating St. Catherine’s

The FBI is now investigating Saint Catherine Medical Center in Fountain Springs.

Federal investigators have gotten involved because federal dollars for Medicare and Medicaid were paid to the hospital to provide services and medical procedures.

Now the hospital is bankrupt and closed.

The facility near Ashland has a debt estimated to be $5 million.

 

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The Cutting Edge

A power mower is not a pleasant machine whether you ride it, push it or walk behind it as it ambles along over your home turf. The sound of it is annoying, it’s work a chore that needs repeating almost weekly not to mention maintenance; in short, not a very pleasant device at all. Still, I do seek the good among the bad and I have fortunately been able to determine two worthwhile qualities in support of it. They aren’t much but it’s all I have.


First, there is the walk. I do not have a riding mower though friends of mine do and their yards are a postage stamp by comparison; to each his own. My mower is self-propelled which means all I do is walk behind it. One day I got out my GPS and carried it with me as I went. I created a pattern that allowed for one continuous run with as few stops as possible. When I finished I found I had walked one point eight miles within the boundaries of my yard. Not too shabby.

H&B from Pottsville: Yuengling Tour / Classic Car Museum / B&B Recipe

This week on Home & Backyard, we’re road tripping to Pottsville! (5/19/12)

We’ll visit:

Yuengling Brewery and find out what it takes to brew America’s oldest beer
Jerry’s Classic Car Museum, which is a lot more than just old cars and trucks
The Maid’s Quarters Bed & Breakfast, and make a delicious recipe
• A look at the city from old to new, with Mike Stevens 

Don’t miss Home & Backyard all from Pottsville, Saturday Morning 5/19/12 at 9:00am!

Too Foggy To Fly: Helicopter En Route From Allentown to Michigan Forced To Land

Too Foggy To Fly: Helicopter En Route From Allentown to Michigan Forced To Land

FORESTVILLE - A construction helicopter carrying three men made an emergency landing on a baseball field near the Forestville Citizens Fire Company on Monday afternoon due to fog.

Mike Jones, one of the pilots from Construction Helicopters Inc., Howell, Mich., who was having lunch at Palermo's Pizza, near Minersville, about 3 p.m., said they were flying a 1962 Sikorsky S58T and had to make the landing after they were unable to see due to heavy fog.

Matt Pelt and Scott Leduc, also pilots for Construction Helicopters Inc., were with Jones.

Jones said they took an airplane from Michigan to Allentown, then left Allentown with the helicopter and were only in the air for a matter of minutes when they made it to Forestville but they had to land.

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