National recognition for high school band program
Newswatch 16 s Marshall Keely shows us how the Shenandoah Valley High School band managed to stay in tune despite a global pandemic. Author: Marshall Keely (WNEP) Updated: 7:23 PM EDT April 29, 2021
SHENANDOAH, Pa. If there s one thing any musician knows how to do, it s change change keys, change tempos, change dynamics. But no sheet music can prepare you for the changes that accompany a pandemic.
Still, band director John Shoener says his students at Shenandoah Valley High School gave their best performance. I would say our students have been great throughout this whole process. It s certainly something that I never thought that we d have to go through, Shoener said.
Schuylkill County District Attorney Michael A. OâPake has decided to seek the death penalty for a man charged with stabbing his ex-girlfriend to death on the front porch of a Shenandoah home in August.
Nathaniel Joseph Kimmel, 22, of 12 N. Richard St., Girardville, is scheduled for trial in Schuylkill County Court in 2021, charged with killing April M. Mahmod, 37, of 106 S. Catherine St., Shenandoah.
State police Trooper Shawn Tray of the Frackville station charged Kimmel with one felony count each of criminal homicide, burglary and criminal trespass; two felony counts of aggravated assault; and one misdemeanor count each of possessing instruments of crime, simple assault, simple assault with a weapon and recklessly endangering another person.