Our network

Community Sponsors

Let Us Transform Your Yard Today
A Full Service, No Nonsense, Foreign & Domestic Auto Repair Facility
Capturing the Memories You Never Want to Forget

Pet Slideshow: May 2012

Taste Test: Spaghetti Ice Cream

Each week this month we’ve been delving into some unusual local cuisine with our taste tests.

This week, it’s time for a little dessert… a dish in Northumberland County that’s a sundae in disguise.

Becky’s Soft Serve near Milton makes ice cream cones and sundaes of all shapes and sizes.

Co-owner Becky Fink says it was during some winter downtime that she got an idea for a new kind of sundae.

“I did a little research, and found out in Germany it’s actually really popular to have spaghetti ice cream. And I thought, well let me search a little more on this,” said Becky.

Spaghetti ice cream? We were puzzled when we first heard it, too.

Becky bought a contraption that makes your dessert look more like an entree, and she showed us how it works.

First, vanilla soft serve ice cream goes in the spaghetti ice cream maker.

Superintendent Charged with DUI

The superintendent of the Jersey Shore Area School District has been charged with driving under the influence.

According to state police, Richard Emery’s blood alcohol content was nearly three times the legal limit last month when he crashed in Northumberland County.

Newswatch 16 spoke with the Jersey Shore area superintendent Tuesday, but he had no comment on the charge. He is still on the job.

Emery could be looking for some way to save his job. He has been superintendent in the district for more than seven years and is now facing charges he was drunk behind the wheel the Friday before Easter.

Troopers said Emery crashed along Route 147 near Milton and had bloodshot, glassy eyes. Court papers state Emery was unable to keep his balance during the sobriety test, and a blood test showed he had a blood alcohol of .21 percent, well over the legal limit.

Community Sponsors

Quality service at a competitive price!

Students, Teachers Mourn Train Crash Victim

Students and teachers at Milton Area High School are grieving the loss of one of their own Tuesday as police try to determine how the car she was in collided with a train Monday afternoon in Milton.

Police said Maxine Eschbach, 17, was riding in the car Monday when it was hit by a train and dragged for two blocks. She was a junior at the high school.

Tuesday counseling was available at the high school for students, staff and family members.

The car  ended up along Mahoning Street in Milton. Police reconstructed a crash between a train and a car. Police said the train and car actually collided two blocks away, on Center Street.

Eschbach was a passenger in the car. The 16-year-old driver was hurt.  Friends said she was a junior at Milton Area and hoped to go to Bucknell University.

The Cutting Edge

A power mower is not a pleasant machine whether you ride it, push it or walk behind it as it ambles along over your home turf. The sound of it is annoying, it’s work a chore that needs repeating almost weekly not to mention maintenance; in short, not a very pleasant device at all. Still, I do seek the good among the bad and I have fortunately been able to determine two worthwhile qualities in support of it. They aren’t much but it’s all I have.


First, there is the walk. I do not have a riding mower though friends of mine do and their yards are a postage stamp by comparison; to each his own. My mower is self-propelled which means all I do is walk behind it. One day I got out my GPS and carried it with me as I went. I created a pattern that allowed for one continuous run with as few stops as possible. When I finished I found I had walked one point eight miles within the boundaries of my yard. Not too shabby.

H&B from Pottsville: Yuengling Tour / Classic Car Museum / B&B Recipe

This week on Home & Backyard, we’re road tripping to Pottsville! (5/19/12)

We’ll visit:

Yuengling Brewery and find out what it takes to brew America’s oldest beer
Jerry’s Classic Car Museum, which is a lot more than just old cars and trucks
The Maid’s Quarters Bed & Breakfast, and make a delicious recipe
• A look at the city from old to new, with Mike Stevens 

Don’t miss Home & Backyard all from Pottsville, Saturday Morning 5/19/12 at 9:00am!