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Today's riddle: What did one strawberry say to the other strawberry? 🤔 (Answer below!)
• Schuylkill County Varsity Golf Results from August 24th, 2026 (skooknews.com) — Golf fans in Minersville can celebrate a solid start to the varsity season, with the team shooting 347 to defeat Pine Grove after an opening loss to Tamaqua. Detailed scorecards highlight strong rounds from Emma Troutman and Garrett Sukeena as Schuylkill County teams opened league play on August 24.
• Helping Harvest has record year distributing food in Berks, Schuylkill (readingeagle.com) — Families in Minersville should know Helping Harvest now runs a school food pantry right in the district, part of a record year of assistance across Berks and Schuylkill counties. The food bank distributed over 12 million pounds of food last year, is on pace for even more, and is asking for local donations and volunteers to keep up with rising demand.
• Hertel & Brown owners ran billing fraud. They agree to pay $15 million (goerie.com) — Residents should know a federal inmate now housed at the Schuylkill facility in Minersville is tied to what prosecutors call Erie's largest white-collar crime case, a $15 million health-care billing fraud. Owners of the defunct Hertel & Brown therapy chain agreed to pay that restitution jointly and severally after prison sentences, with major insurers like Highmark, Medicare, and UPMC listed as victims.
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