Local Voices of Schuylkill County
Schuylkill County is documented every day by the people who live here — photographing its patch towns, keeping up with the news, cooking its food, and telling its stories. Here are some of the local voices worth following, and a small thank-you to the people behind them.
Checked and updated July 2026.
News & community pages
- Coal Cracker Kids — A youth newsroom where Mahanoy City teens report on their own community, in quarterly print and online since 2014.
Mahanoy City - Schuylkill County Police Activity — A Facebook-native page tracking arrests, incidents, and breaking public-safety news across the county.
Countywide - TamaquaArea.com — Andy Leibenguth's community hub for Tamaqua, Coaldale, and Lansford — breaking news, event posters, closings, and reader tips since 2009.
Tamaqua
History & heritage
- Anthracite Coal Region of Northeastern PA — Melissa Meade's daily digital archive of coal-region memory — breaker boys, mine disasters, oral histories, and the #MyCoalRegion community hashtag.
Mahanoy City
Food & drink
- Coal Country Boilo @coal_country_boilo — An Orwigsburg operation documenting boilo — the coal region's winter spirit — through recipes and its "Search for Boilo" series.
Orwigsburg - 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 — Restaurant reviews across Schuylkill County and just beyond its edges.
Countywide
Film, photography & documentary
- Coal Region Campfire — Pottsville videographer Alfredo Mercuri's podcast and video special reports on coal-region culture, 150-plus episodes deep.
Pottsville - Coal Region Explorer @Coalregionexploer22 — A local channel documenting abandoned buildings and coal-region landmarks across Shenandoah, Girardville, and Mahanoy.
Northern Schuylkill County
Remembered voices
A word for chroniclers whose work still shapes how the county sees itself, though they've since gone quiet.
- A Coalcracker in the Kitchen — Lori Fogg's coal-region food blog — halupki, bleenies, boilo, and 200-plus recipes.
Lori Fogg died in August 2022; her recipe archive remains online. - coalregionfire — More than 400 fire-scene videos from around the county — Port Carbon, Ashland, Ryan Township — a decade-deep visual record.
Dormant since November 2015; preserved here as an archive.