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 – 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 – 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 dancer in the Mexico contingent of the Shenandoah Heritage Day Parade performs on May 20, 2023.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – A Girl Scout waves the American Flag as the Ringtown Memorial Day Parade passes the senior citizens center on Main Street on May 29, 2023.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – The Ringtown Valley is hardly visible from its namesake scenic view in Union Township on June 6, 2023.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Heavy smoke blankets the Shenandoah Valley, seen from Shenandoah Heights, on Tuesday, June 6, 2023.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – WNEP-TV Morning Meteorologist Joe Snedeker is welcomed at the McAdoo Fire Company’s Hancock Street Station on July 26, 2023.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Shenandoah Valley Boys Soccer Head Coach John Burke talks to his team prior to his team’s first-ever scrimmage against Lourdes Regional.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Chris Rooney and Joe Alshefski paint the Devils logo on the football helmet at Main and Centre Streets in Shenandoah on August 23, 2023.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Shenandoah Valley’s Nick Ryan (9) intercepts a Columbia Montour Vo-Tech pass on August 25, 2023.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Upper Dauphin’s #13 Ben Engle attempts to avoid a tackle by Shenandoah Valley’s #10 Brad Monjaraz.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Lightning strikes in the distance as crews were at the scene of a building collapse in Mahanoy City on Sept. 7, 2023.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – The Warrior Run Marching Band performs in the 2023 edition of the First Responders Parade in Kulpmont.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – A pair of Reading and Northern employees stand ready as passengers board the first train excursion from Mahanoy City since 1994, seen on Sept, 9, 2023.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Members of an honor guard at an event in Hazleton in the summertime.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 – A Shenandoah Valley player holds his helmet skyward during military appreciation night.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Shenandoah Valley Girls’ Soccer players celebrate their go-ahead goal against Nativity BVM.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Shenandoah Valley Girls’ Soccer players celebrate their first ever win.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – A color guard member carries the Army flag as the Army’s song is performed by all of the high school bands at the Gratz Fair.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – The Shenandoah Valley Blue Devil Band marches down A Avenue at the Bloomsburg Fairgrounds during the Bloomsburg Fair on Sept. 28, 2023.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Marian Catholic’s #11 Jesse Rodino tries to vault over Shenandoah Valley’s #9 Nick Ryan.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Shenandoah Valley Marching Band members perform during the North Schuylkill Tournament of Bands competition.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Members of the choir sing during the 100th anniversary celebration of St. John The Baptist Church in Frackville.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – The inaugural Shenandoah Valley Blue Devil soccer squad huddles underneath the Shenandoah skyline.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Cars drive through the Weiser State Forest Roaring Creek Tract in the fall.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – A group of Shenandoah Valley students paint the window at Luna’s DiMaggio’s Restaurant on North Main Street.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Mahanoy Area’s #17 Levi Terry scrambles during the Eastern Conference playoff game against Pen Argyl.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Ashland firefighter Jeremy Smallwood ascends a ladder to a burning home at 5th and Hickory Streets in Mount Carmel on Nov. 8, 2023.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – An Ashland Black Diamond football player hypes the crowd after their championship victory.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – A William Penn firefighter looks on as he awaits apparatus at a car fire in the village.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 – A Hazle Township firefighter battles a house fire in Nuremberg.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – A Mahanoy Area basketball player scrambles for a loose ball.SUBMITTED – Heavy wildfire smoke blankets the Locust Lake State Park in Ryan Township.KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL – Bree Dobeck, Mahanoy Area drum major, conducts her band prior to a football game in the fall of 2023.
