Happy Groundhog Day

Time to get the news! Will it be six more weeks of Winter or Spring just around the corner? We'll all find out soon. Come to Sweet Arrow Lake County Park on Friday, February 2 to celebrate that crazy holiday Groundhog Day. They'll be breakfast beginning at 7:30 a.m., a prediction at 9 a.m. and some other fun: music by Matthew Todd, stories, and even a Groundhog Chinese Auction. Admission is FREE. For more information call 570-345-88952 or email dkline@co.schuylkill.pa.us

Are your hiking boots gathering dust in the back of your closet? Well, it's time to get them out and prove that hiking is a four season activity! This coming Sunday they is not ONE but TWO hikes! So choose your favorite:

Sunday, January 28
Stump Dam Hike
Meet at Llewellyn Hose parking lot at 8 a.m. for a 9 mile hike rated easy. Follow the old Lehigh Railroad to Silverton -- even with light snow on the ground -- with hike leader Jim Murphy.

Fort Dietrich Snyder & Appalachian Trail Hike
Meet at Route 183 on top of Blue Mountain at 2 p.m. for a 3 mile hike rated easy. Hike to a monument for the fort, a natural spring, an abandoned farm pond and even a bit of the Appalachian Trail.