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• 10 things I always hear while walking my dog in Shamokin

  Ho-Butt! WTF man? Can I see your tatt? You holdin' dude? Can I bum a smoke from ya? Vinni Clausi (something) Exactly how old are you? Who's buying? Your dog is, like, so awesome! Know what I mean? ...

• Barbie’s body exhumed to finally discover killer

  After more than a decade regarding a suspicious crash in 1998, Barbie's formerly shapely body is being exhumed. Although the image of her inanimate, plastic, bloody booty will be forever burned into my brain, there may be some readers who do not remember this horrific event. On a balmy day in...

• Shamokin’s Best Party Spots (Part 2)

  More Party Spots! I told ya'll I'd be back. I realize that all of you faithful readers have been anxiously awaiting the next installment of [Hot Party Spots]. You may now indulge yourselves… THE SATURN – Located just about ½ mile past the Bunker Hill baseball fields along a crater-rid...

• Shamokin’s Hot Party Spots (Part 1)

  You may be asking yourself on a warm, summer night, "Where is the best place to have a mountain party in, or surrounding, the Shamokin area?" Well ponder no more, my friends. I will give you the rundown, the lowdown and the 'fo-shizzel about all of the local mountain party spots. Warning: "Moun...

• The Ultimate Shamokin Question: Ho-Butt or Ho-Bud?

  Okay. Am I the only one not clued in on this debate? Yesterday I saw an older gentleman walking down Market Street in Shamokin wearing a purple shirt that said "Shamokin" and below that "Ho-Butt." About a month ago, just a few blocks from my house, I noticed a license plate on a sweet '56 ...

• Top 10 Things Coal Region High School Grads Should Do This Summer

  10. Volunteer Work/Community Service (Looks good on a resume!) 9. Travel (Hit the road like Jack Kerouac) 8. Drink mass quantities of beer and go on silly drunken valley rides (We know you will anyway - had to include it) 7. Martial Arts training (Why not? Ninjas are so in!) 6. Break...

• Third Patch Under State Control? WTF?

  Recently, it has come to my attention that the "Third Patch" may be coming under state control. Apparently, the state wants to fill up all of the pot holes (perhaps pave the road), fill the sink holes in the swim holes so that people don't get sucked down into the abyss, AND charge a fee on top ...

• Shamokin, PA: A Good Place to Die

  There must be some kind of way outta here... Well, truth is, that's what they all think. 'least at first. Next thing you know 60 years go by and all you've got to your name is a bar stool bearing your ass groove. Ahhh...good ol' Shamokin, Pennsylvania. We did not build this city on rock and ...