Standard-Speaker
During the summer of 2008, Times-Shamrock Communications integrated the internal archives and Web site of The Standard-Speaker into the network of the company's Pennsylvania daily chains. Most of my clips are available by searching for my byline at www.standardspeaker.com. These clips are hard copies I scanned:
Submersive tactics (Sunday, 6.15.08)
High school students compete in an underwater robotics competition (feature).
School's out for summer, now where are the jobs? (front page) (jump) (Tuesday, 6.17.08)
Across the nation, little more than one-third of 16- to 19-year-olds will find jobs this summer.
Blood never 'this low, this fast' (Wednesday, 6.18.08)
Red Cross warns of dropping levels in area.
Citizens respond to call for blood donations (Saturday, 6.21.08)
For the first time in months, the American Red Cross Hazleton Chapter met its goal of 20 units for a Friday blood drive.
Tamaqua meeting will tackle high voltage line (Tuesday, 6.24.08)
PPL Electric Utilities will hold an open house at Tamaqua Community Center between 5 and 8 p.m. tonight. Individuals can attend anytime during this public meeting.
Paper, plastic or cloth and Finally, a place to call home (Sunday, 7.6.08)
While some Hazleton-area parishes close or consolidate, an empty church in Milnesville will be born again.
Looking for an alternative (Monday, 7.7.08)
For some customers at Waschko's Pharmacy in Hazleton, the unavailability of generic alternatives to a well-known painkiller has led to drastic price hikes.
Local blood centers targeting Latino population (Tuesday, 7.8.08)
Regional blood centers have focused on Latino population recruitment for the past year, but turnout among members of diverse populations remain low or concealed.
'Like a funeral' (front page) (jump) (Monday, 7.14.08)
The last time Juliann Pernatsky Bortz attended Mass at St. Kunegunda's in McAdoo was for her mother's funeral in 1994.
One last time (front page) (jump) (Wednesday, 7.16.08)
The congregation kneeled together, rose together and left together.
In the city's shadows (Monday, 8.11.08)
Drug series part one of two.
'You know it's only going to get worse and worse' (Tuesday, 8.12.08)
Drug series part two of two.