The Tamaqua Area Community Partnership held two “community conversation events” in September, looking for ideas, concerns of local business and community leaders as well as residents.

A follow-up meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Thursdayat the Scheller Student Center at Lehigh County Community College’s Morgan Center on Van Gelder Street. Participants will focus more detail on five or six areas that had the most interest in the initial meetings.Joe Krushinsky will lead the session.The public is welcome to attend, whether or not they attended either of the two earlier sessions.For more information, call 570-668-4451 or email

gtay200@verizon.net.