Brew Debut: Whiskers Brewing is Newville’s first brewery since Prohibition

A coffee shop, a Chinese restaurant and a brewery.

Those were the top three businesses that Newville residents put atop their wish list, in a recent survey taken by borough officials.

Out of the ashes: Newville's Whiskers Brewing opens first floor after February fire

“I believe it’s going to be a total loss.” : Jacob Griffie, systems chief of Friendship Hose, spoke these words Feb. 28 as he stood outside the still-smoking Whiskers Brewing Inc. at 9 S. High St. in Newville. Crews from eight fire companies had just extinguished a first-alarm structure fire that destroyed much of the brewery’s first floor.

Newville’s first bar since 1939 will rebuild after fire

NEWVILLE, Pa. (WHTM) — The family that was a week away from opening this borough’s first bar since shortly after prohibition, when fire gutted Whiskers Brewing Monday, plans to rebuild.

Fire causes 'extensive damage' to brewery days before its opening

A fire ripped through Whiskers Brewing in Cumberland County before it ever served any customers, injuring a responding firefighter in the process.

A fire caused "extensive damages" to a Cumberland County brewery and left a firefighter in the hospital just days before the brewery was set to open to the public, according to fire officials.

Bulldog proud: Whiskers Brewing to open next month in downtown Newville

Dean and Katie Yaukey have breathed new life into the former General Store on South High Street in downtown Newville, thanks to a hobby-turned-passion for Dean.

New brewery breaks Cumberland County town's 82-year-long dry streak

A Cumberland County town is getting its first brewery in nearly a century.

NEWVILLE, Pa. — A new brewery is breaking a Cumberland County town’s 82-year-long streak as a dry municipality, meaning no alcohol could be sold.