While residents enjoy their barbecue and cold brews this holiday weekend, police throughout the region will be on the look out for impaired drivers.

Dave Everly, regional sobriety checkpoint coordinator for the North Central Regional DUI Enforcement Program, urged drivers to have a designated driver this weekend.

Checkpoints and roving patrol operations this weekend are part of the North Central Regional DUI Enforcement Program, which conducts DUI enforcement operations in 10 Counties: Berks, Carbon, Columbia, Monroe, Montour, Northumberland, Pike, Schuylkill, Snyder and Union.

Nurse earns MSN

BLOOMSBURG - Peggy Kopitsky, RN, MSN, regulatory services associate at Bloomsburg Hospital, recently graduated magna cum laude from the University of Phoenix with a master's degree in the science of nursing. Kopitsky has been employed by Bloomsburg Hospital since she graduated from the Williamsport Hospital School of Nursing in 1982. She has worked as a staff nurse in the medical/s

Our high school band performed just about every weekend from summer through fall, playing at everything from drum and bugle corps competitions to high school, semipro and professional football games. We would often emerge from the yellow school buses and into the diesel-scented air late at night.

There were about 12 kids from my neighborhood in the band, so we would usually split up into groups and walk 5 or so blocks from the high school home. Although it was early in a new day, the strolls home were just as routine as the walk to and from school in daylight.

n SHAMOKIN - John R. Reichwein, 22, of 1141 W. State St., Coal Township, waived to court Tuesday charges of criminal mischief, disorderly conduct and public drunkenness and was ordered by Magisterial District Judge John Gembic III to appear for arraignment Aug. 4 at Northumberland County Courthouse, Sunbury.

Reichwein was charged by Shamokin Patrolman Raymond Siko II in connection with a May 10 disturbance at the skate park on North Rock Street.

SUNBURY - Northumberland County Judge Charles Saylor has ordered a judicial sale to be conducted in the county at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 26, in the Northumberland County Administration Center, 399 S. Fifth St., Sunbury.

On Tuesday, the judge issued an order for the sale, which will be the first one held in the county in eight years.

The sale, which will generate revenue and put many properties back on the county tax rolls, was expected to be held in the spring, but the date was pushed back due to the amount of paperwork and execution of notices to property owners and lien holders involved in the process, according to Pat Yasenchak, tax claims bureau director.

Sunbury Rd. drainage work scheduled

RUSH TOWNSHIP - Daytime detours will start Monday. A PennDOT maintenance crew in Northumberland County is scheduled to begin a series of cross pipe replacements to improve drainage along a section of Sunbury Road (State Route 4004) in Rush Township, starting Monday, weather permitting.

Daylight, weekday, red-arrow detours will be in effect from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. through July 17.