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In addition to learning various forms of oil pointing, residents were provided a chance to paint their own works of art recently in the arts room of the Tamaqua Salvation Army. The session, hosted by the Salvation Army, was called Diakon's Living and Learning Oil Painting. For more information about future events at the Salvation Army, contact Programs Director Dina Depos at (570) 668-0410.

Going for the Girl Scout Silver Award is the highest award a Girl Scout Cadette can earn. It shows the girl is a leader who is organized, determined, and dedicated to improving her community. Girls must be in 6th, 7th, or 8th grade (or equivalent) and a registered Girl Scout Cadette to qualify.

In a special ceremony, 10 Girl Scouts of Troop 376, were recognized and honored for their achievements, under the leadership of Bridget Freeby and Dawn Bartholomew. It was held at Cherry's Sunset Family Restaurant in Kresgeville.

Changes to its junior high school schedule has been met with some resistance in the Palmerton Area School District.

Brad Landis, president of the Palmerton Area Education Association, read a statement from the PAEA to the school board on Tuesday.

In his statement, Landis said administration has decided to eliminate homogenous grouping - the grouping of students of similar abilities - and replace it with fully heterogeneous grouping, or random grouping.

He said that "while there may be some merit to this change, two elements of it are puzzling to the PAEA."

Although the Center Street bridge improvement project has received substantial funding from PennDOT, the borough of Tamaqua is going to be forking $7,700 over to the Reading and Northern Railroad annually as a result of the project.

The matter came to light at last night's council meeting when Councilman John Trudich questioned the item on the monthly bills and motioned not to pay it, calling it "baloney."