King of Prussia, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) will hold an open house public plans display on Wednesday, October 2, from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM at Gateway Church at 160 Cowan Road in Parkesburg Borough, to inform citizens about the upcoming project to reconstruct and improve a 1.7-mile section of the U.S. […]
By: Andrea Sears HARRISBURG, Pa. – Environmental groups say the latest deregulation proposal from the Environmental Protection Agency would be devastating for the health of Pennsylvanians and the future of the planet. Late last week, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler released a proposal to eliminate direct regulation of methane emissions from new and modified oil and gas […]
Parkesburg Borough Police Department announced that it will be participating in the “National Night Out”. National Night Out is a community-police awareness-raising event in the United States. The event has been held annually since 1984, and is sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch in the United States and Canada. National Night Out began […]
BY: STAFF According to Parkesburg Borough Police Department, “Police were called to a dog attack incident Wednesday afternoon, July 24th, along the 300 block of Strasburg Avenue. Two family members (an 82 year old female and a 26 year old male) sustained serious injuries that include bites, cuts and a compound fractured arm. The family […]
By: Andrea Sears HARRISBURG, Pa. – April 15 is coming up fast and there are a lot of changes in federal tax laws this year, but free help getting income-tax returns filed is available now. AARP has offered free, in-person tax assistance and preparation since 1968. Last year, more than 1,500 volunteers helped 114,000 low- and moderate-income […]
Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan announced that there had been new developments along Sunoco’s Mariner East pipelines in Chester County, Pennsylvania over the weekend. On Sunday, January 20, a new sinkhole opened up in a neighborhood along the pipelines. In addition, the District Attorney’s Office discovered that constables from outside of Chester County apparently […]
Parkesburg Borough officials report that Monday morning Planet Fitness had filed for a construction permit to renovate the interior of the former Acme location along First Avenue. The borough posted this status to facebook, “We are pleased to announce that this morning permit applications were filed by Planet Fitness to begin construction inside the old […]
Barry Root, 36, of Parkesburg, PA was charged with Receiving Stolen Property after a traffic stop in the 2200 block of North Reading Road on October 16, 2018. At 0035 hours, an East Cocalico Police Officer observed Root driving a vehicle which had been reported stolen to the PA State Police on September 24, 2018. […]