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First Snow 2011
Read more: First Snow 2011The Bloomsburg Daily Photographer, Bob Rush, set out to capture images of the first snow of the season. While not even Halloween, the area is experiencing a relatively significant snowfall. Enjoy Bob’s pictures.
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Study Looks at Water Quality in Private Wells Near Marcellus Drilling
Read more: Study Looks at Water Quality in Private Wells Near Marcellus DrillingUNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A study of more than 200 drinking-water wells near Marcellus Shale natural-gas wells in 20 counties did not find statistically significant evidence of contamination from hydraulic fracturing — a process used by gas drillers to release natural gas using a high-pressure mixture of water, sand and chemical additives. The study was conducted by researchers and extension educators in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences. The research was funded by the state General Assembly’s Center for Rural Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Water Resources Research Center at Penn State. A free online seminar focusing on the study results…
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Remember When: Halloween
Read more: Remember When: HalloweenIt’s time to break out the candy corn, dust off the skeletons, and hang the spider webs. This week’s edition of “Remember When…” takes us down memory lane to, where else? Halloween. ……………. How was Halloween explained to you as a child? I remember being told the story of All Hallow’s Eve in elementary school music class while listening to Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain.” Does anyone else remember that? ……………. Laurilyn Witherup-Bailey has some elementary school Halloween memories that are funny now but at the time, maybe weren’t so amusing to her: “I remember in elementary school always trying…
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Jack Edwards Remembers Halloween
Read more: Jack Edwards Remembers HalloweenSeems like my memories of Halloween, growing up back home in Bloomsburg, center around the tradition of “Trick or Treating”. Was that tradition just a little different back then? When you were little it seemed like your parents bought you a Halloween costume, but not a new one every year. Each year it went back in the box and was put in the attic with the Christmas stuff where it waited until the next year. That plastic mask might not endure a hot summer in the attic, but often masks came on the back of cereal boxes, I mean, if…
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Potentially Historic Snowstorm a Possibility for Bloomsburg Saturday
Read more: Potentially Historic Snowstorm a Possibility for Bloomsburg SaturdayThe National Weather Service in State College has issued a Winter Storm Warning for all of Columbia County from 2 am-10 pm Saturday due to expected snowfall of 4-8 inches. The snow should start late tonight/early tomorrow morning, and may be mixed with a bit of rain at the onset. The snow should pick up and possibly become heavy at times tomorrow afternoon. Temperatures during the snow will be right near freezing, so the snow will be the heavy, wet variety. This raises two fairly serious hazards. First, many trees still have their leaves, and heavy, wet snow will weigh them down…
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BTE’s Holiday Memories: Students on Both Sides of the Curtain
Read more: BTE’s Holiday Memories: Students on Both Sides of the CurtainIn November and December, the Alvina Krause Theatre in downtown Bloomsburg will be filled with the sounds of school students in the audience and on stage when Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble brings Truman Capote’s HOLIDAY MEMORIES to the stage. You can find the full schedule for BTE’s Holiday season here at The Bloomsburg Daily’s Event Calendar. There are eight special school matinees for Holiday memories on the following dates: November 30, December 1, 7, 8, 14, 15, 21 and 22. All matinees begin at 10:00 a.m. and the cost is $9.00 for all audience members. Matinees fill quickly; one matinee is…