Local Voices of Schuylkill County
Schuylkill County is documented every day by the people who live here — keeping up with the news, cooking its food, and telling its stories on camera. Here are some of the local voices worth following, and a small thank-you to the people behind them.
News & community pages
- Schuylkill County Police Activity on Facebook — A Facebook-native page tracking arrests, incidents, and breaking public-safety news across the county.
Countywide
Food & drink
- Miss Allie's Kitchen @miss.allieskitchen — Pottsville's Allie Doran shares whole-food and wild-game recipes, food photography, and her venison cookbook, Venison Every Day.
Pottsville - Skook Eats @countycuisine on Instagram — Restaurant reviews from around Schuylkill County and beyond.
Countywide
Film, photography & documentary
- Coal Region Campfire on Facebook — Pottsville videographer Alfredo Mercuri's podcast and video special reports on coal-region people, places, and culture.
Pottsville · Our profile — Coal Region Campfire
Remembered voices
A word of thanks for chroniclers whose work still shapes how the county sees itself. These pages have stopped growing; every one of them is still worth reading.
- A Coalcracker in the Kitchen on Facebook — Lori Fogg's coal-region food blog — halupki, bleenies, boilo, and 200-plus recipes.
Lori Fogg died in August 2022. Her Facebook page remains online. - Anthracite Coal Region of Northeastern PA — Melissa Meade's digital archive of coal-region memory — breaker boys, mine disasters, oral histories, and the #MyCoalRegion community hashtag.
The project's website stopped publishing in 2021 and its Facebook page followed in 2025; the archive remains online. - Coal Country Boilo — An Orwigsburg record of boilo — the coal region's winter spirit — in recipes and its "Search for Boilo" series.
Its website has been quiet since 2023 and its Instagram since 2024; the recipes remain online. - Coal Cracker Kids — A youth newsroom where Mahanoy City teens reported on their own community, in quarterly print and online, from 2014 to 2019.
The newsroom's run ended in 2019; its archive remains online. - coalregionfire on YouTube — More than 400 fire-scene videos from around the county — Port Carbon, Ashland, Ryan Township — a visual record now more than a decade old.
Dormant since November 2015; the videos are still on YouTube. - TamaquaArea.com — Andy Leibenguth's news-and-photo chronicle of Tamaqua, Coaldale, and Lansford — breaking news, event posters, closings, and reader tips, beginning in 2009.
The site last posted regularly in 2017 and its Facebook page went quiet in 2023; the news and photo archive remains online.