KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – A competitor shovels coal in the coal shoveling competition at the 13th Annual Coal Miners’ Heritage Festival in Lansford in 2020.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Silhouetted by the aurora borealis at the Ringtown Valley Scenic View are, from left to right, Sherry Streeter, Shenandoah; Carol Twardzik, Frackville; and Ryan Twardzik, Frackville; on April 24, 2023.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – A Shenandoah firefighter battles a house fire in Nuremberg on May 16, 2023.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Flames envelope the upper floors of a home in Shenandoah’s Turkey Run section on March 7, 2023.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Marian Catholic’s #11 Jesse Rodino tries to vault over Shenandoah Valley’s #9 Nick Ryan during a 2023 football matchup.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – A Crossfire volunteer participates in the football toss at Thursday’s street fair.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL FILE – Shenandoah firefighter Derrick Donchak at the scene of a three alarm blaze at the former United Wiping Cloth factory on Jan. 17, 2020.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Mahanoy Area’s Kadin Styka and Shenandoah Valley’s Bryan Rivera dive for a loose ball during a Feb. 4, 2023 basketball game.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – A pair of Englewood firefighters look on as flames escape the attic of 241 South Poplar Street in Mount Carmel.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Arrianna Daniels, Bethlehem, playing Almeda in The Tall Girls, practices a basketball shot between film shots in the gymnasium at the former J.W. Cooper Memorial High School in Shenandoah on July 15, 2021.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Lightning lights up the sky above a vehicle accident in Mahanoy Township in July 2021.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Mahanoy Area’s #14 Claudia Clark leaps for a shot, contending with a Sacred Heart defender during a PIAA 2A Playoff basketball game at Bonner-Prendergast Catholic High School near Philadelphia on March 16, 2021.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Santa Claus waves to the crowd after he lit the Mahanoy City Christmas tree on Nov. 25, 2023.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – The scene along East Vine Street in Mahanoy City, where a tornado rolled through hours before, seen on May 28, 2024.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Shenandoah Fire Chief Rick Examitas awaits apparatus as a colliery building burns behind Boyer’s Food Markets on March 10, 2023.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – The Warrior Run Marching Band performs in the First Responders Parade in Kulpmont in 2023.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Three firefighters from the Shamokin Bureau of Fire place a piece of steel from the World Trade Center inside the new 9/11 Memorial near city hall on Sept. 11, 2023.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Mahanoy Area’s Jace Yedsena leaps for a dunk late in the 2024 Schuylkill League Championship Game. KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Flames engulf the second floor of a home at 4 South Grant Street in Shenandoah on March 2, 2023.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Shenandoah Valley Boys Soccer Head Coach John Burke talks to his team prior to a scrimmage against Lourdes Regional in 2023.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Ashland’s #5 hypes the Ashland crowd after their victory.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Mahanoy Area’s #17 Levi Terry scrambles during the Bears’ Eastern Conference Playoff game at Pen Argyl in November 2023.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SENTINEL PHOTO – Mahanoy Area Head Coach Dave Holman brings the American Legion Damato-Szematowicz Trophy to his players after their 60-12 victory over Shenandoah Valley on Oct. 25, 2019.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Lightning strikes in the distance, seen above Shenandoah in 2018.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – A Ringtown Valley firefighter battles a brush fire on Green Mountain Road in North Union Township on Feb. 26, 2023.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Ashland’s Nico Capone delivers a pitch during a Pennsylvania State 9-11 Little League Tournament game in 2021.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – A man kneels at a grave in Sky View Memorial Park after laying a wreath during the Wreaths Across America ceremony in Hometown on Dec. 17, 2023.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – David Eisenhower, seen in the red hoodie, is brought out of the No. 9 Mine in Lansford after a 12-hour standoff with police on May 25, 2023.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – A lightning bolt strikes Shenandoah’s east end.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Firefighters battle a house fire on Connerton Road in Butler Township on July 10, 2024.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Members of the Mahanoy City and Schuylkill Haven dive teams make their way down a flooded Main Street in Gilberton on June 12, 2020.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Shenandoah Valley’s Angelena Donovan clears a hurdle during a 2021 Track & Field meet.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – A combine harvester is seen working a field in Pattersonville, Union Township on Oct. 18, 2024.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – State Troopers in tactical gear peek around a corner at a tractor trailer involved in a pursuit, stopped at the Beech Street Playground in Hazleton on June 29, 2020.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Bree Dobeck, Mahanoy Area drum major, conducts her band prior to a football game in the fall of 2023.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – The face of the Dollar General sign is seen in a backyard in Mahanoy City on May 28, 2024 as two National Weather Service meteorologists survey damage from a tornado in Mahanoy City.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – A dancer in the Mexico contingent of the Shenandoah Heritage Day Parade performs on May 20, 2023.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Mike Vernalis and dog April look for a veteran’s gravesite in St. Casimir’s Cemtery to adorn with a flag.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Santa Claus parachutes into Veterans Memorial Stadium in Shenandoah on Nov. 24, 2023.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Snow covers part of the Anthracite Miners Memorial in Shenandoah on January 6, 2024.
