Regular season comes to a close!!!!

The regular season of high school football come to a close tonight. I will be broadcasting the Southern-Milton game.


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The door opened for some teams in District IV AA with Central's loss to Bloomsburg as time expired last night.

Shamokin to be anywhere near the hunt needs to win against Loyalsock, have Danville lose to Jersey Shore and Troy to lose to Canton. Even with that Danville may outpoint them due to their win over Athens.

Mount Carmel should safely be at home during the Districts with a win against North Schuylkill tonight. Montoursville has a chance to improve their seeding with a win over Selinsgrove.

PRESEASON PREDICTIONS

In discussing chances of area teams this season back in August. I thought here is where some area teams may end up:

Shamokin - on a high note 6-4 and on a low note 4-6. Central Columbia was their big swing game.

Mount Carmel - 10-0 on the high note and 8-2 on the low note. There is no substitute for senior leadership in high school football.

Southern Area - 9-1 on the high note and 7-3 on the low end. Southern had a very a pretty tough schedule and beat a good Montoursville team in Week 2.

As for playoffs, Southern if they win the District will have Riverside, Schuylkill Haven and Steel-High as possibly match ups before they even get to Chocolatetown.

Games of WEEK #10

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Selinsgrove vs. Montoursville

and

Dunmore vs. Riverside.

Halloween Parade in Shamokin, PA!!!!

Phinally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PHILLIES CELEBRATE

Courtesy of the AP

As Joe Carter left the building, Mitch Williams summed it up best with quote from former Flyers head coach Fred Shero,

"Win today and we walk together forever."

As soon as the game ended, I reflected on my father and thought about an end to a quarter of a century of Philadelphia frustration. Since the 1983 Sixers, here is some of the frustration:

Sixers - one NBA final

Phillies - two World Series

Eagles - three NFC Championships and two Super Bowls.

Flyers - three Stanley Cup finals.

Savor this one, I hope I'm not 67 when the next one rolls around!

A Poem for Election Day

Thanks to my friends at the CSCC

Halloween Blues

by Terri Peterson

'Twas Halloween night and the ghosts were abundant

Though their moaning and wailing seemed somewhat redundant.

Four years of W. rendered the nation

Unable to counter our crushing inflation.

The ghouls couldn't figure what could be more scary

Than a neocon-appointed judiciary.

Witches grimly realized they would never be no

More publicly hateful than Dana Perino.

Dick Cheney steals hope from each heart as he passes,

Mike Chertoff is happy to spy on the masses,

Torture's accepted for interrogation;

Karl Rove spins a tight web of misinformation.

Dubya's last months as commander in chief

Offer anything but what can be termed relief.

Hubris and recklessness mixed with pure greed

Left common dreams strewn in the mean streets to bleed.

Our houses are gone!

And our banks are all failing!

700 billion dollar bailouts are bailing.

Emergency management plans are mismanaged.

Health care reform? It seems hopelessly damaged.

But the Bush years are ending, election day's nearing

For months we've heard nothing but conventioneering.

And who has the GOP picked to replace

Dubya and Cheney in this presidential race?

John McCain is the GOP's nominee stooge,

A sellout whose temper is said to be huge,

Nicknamed "McNasty", he flies off the handle

When asked of his role in the Keating Five scandal.

As for Sarah Palin, who's been chosen for VEEP,

The thought of her makes children cry in their sleep.

For deep in the bulb of her power she-mullet,

Lies the knife kept close by to stab moose in the gullet.

McNasty and the V-PILF are deep in cahoots

With CEOs buffing their gold parachutes.

Global suffering from New Orleans to Darfur?

Not important. Most of those people are poor.

The Halloween world demanded reclamation

Of Halloween business and horrification.

Paranoia and fear was their job to foment,

And not generated by one's government.

They looked to the right, who thought none could be tougher,

Than an ex-POW and his wolf-hunting fluffer,

To maintain terror-quo.

Our good ghouls were bereft.

Their hearts filled with despair; then they looked to the left.

Look! Barack Obama! Energized by compassion,

Who views social justice as not just a fashion,

Can discuss real concerns without tripping alarms,

Plus, his wife's pretty fierce. Have you checked out her arms?

Joe Biden, an expert in foreign affairs

Has been tapped for V.P.; as a statesman he dares

To put people's needs first before corporate lust.

Both aim, as leaders, to rebuild public trust.

So the ghosts and the witches all hope that you're certain,

When you go to the voting booth and draw the curtain,

To pick the team that inspires hope and not fright,

And vote Obama-Biden on election night.

Jim Roth Interview for Milton

Jim Roth discusses upcoming game with Milton