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Missionaries serve community while battling stereotypes

Wednesday, March 10, 2010
By Thom Casey
Missionaries serve community while battling stereotypes

It’s around 12:30 p.m., March 4, and someone finally answers their door. “Guys, I’m sorry, but I don’t have time to talk,” the elderly gentleman politely tells the two young men standing on his front porch. The two hand him a card, and wish him well. “God bless,” the man says to them before he closes... »

Steel-High drops Wildcat girls 62-34 in D-3A final

Wednesday, March 10, 2010
By John Alvanitakis
Steel-High drops Wildcat girls 62-34 in D-3A final

In motor sports parlance, Greenwood girls’ basketball coach T.J. Weller subscribes to restrictor-plate racing. Steel-High’s Jess Chisholm prefers drag racing. In a clash of styles, the dragsters won. On March 4, in the District 3-A championship game at the Giant Center in Hershey, the nitro-fueled Rollers choked... »

District is likely to draw on credit to meet payroll

Wednesday, March 10, 2010
By Thom Casey

Newport School District should be able to make this month’s payroll, but next month will present a problem, according to Richard Meily, the district’s business manager. Payroll totals a little more than $700,000 per month. Employees are paid twice a month, with March 5 and... »


Greenwood boys denied District-3A title repeat

Wednesday, March 10, 2010
By John Alvanitakis
Greenwood boys denied District-3A title repeat

The old basketball saw goes, “You can’t coach size.” Would that he could, Kent Houser is surely thinking. On March 5, at the Giant Center, in the District 3-A finals, Houser’s... »

Turnbaugh’s Place seeks liquor license

Wednesday, March 10, 2010
By Thom Casey

Newport Borough residents will have the chance to voice their opinions about a borough bar’s attempt to obtain a liquor license. A public hearing is scheduled at 7 p.m., March... »

Capozzoli inducted into District III wrestling Hall of Fame

Wednesday, March 10, 2010
By John Alvanitakis
Capozzoli inducted into District III wrestling Hall of Fame

John Zeigler remembers that day in October 1988 well. Zeigler, at the time the athletic director at Newport, and then-principal Jeff Zimmerman were meeting with Mike Capozzoli for an informal... »