Inside Looking Out: The uncommonly good man He’s out there, but you might not take notice. You see, he’s not the guy at a party telling jokes to a crowd around him ... It’s In Your Nature: Black bears, and a bit about hibernation During the ’70s when I was an undergrad and graduate student at East Stroudsburg State College (now East Stroudsburg Uni... Where We Live: Remembering better times aleap@tnonline.com In six days I will turn 70 and I never thought I would see and hear the things I have in the past... Inside Looking Out: Give me a good story (but not that one!) As a writer for this newspaper, a playwright of six plays, and an author of a novel, I confess that I don’t read enough ... Life with Liz: Oh, those aging pains I did a pretty dumb thing. Granted, it wasn’t an entirely avoidable thing, and I took as many precautions as I could, bu... Warmest Regards: Staying in the present isn’t that easy I’ve told you in past weeks about how I’m striving to live only in the present instead of worrying about the future. Tha... It’s In Your Nature: Take Barry Reed’s visual test I frequently get some photos, videos, or just a question on nature related items from friends or readers of my column. U... Life with Liz: Testing parents We cut the cable cord a few years ago, and although I do feel like I watch a lot of “television,” (probably too much) it... Warmest Regards: Worrywarts waste energy Are you a pessimist, one who believes the worst will happen and tends to expect unfavorable outcomes? Or, are you an opt... Warmest Regards: Believe in the best I’m sharing again the two-sentence quote from a friend that continues to resonated with me. “I know it’s sometimes hard ... Latest Photo GalleriesWreaths Across America at SkyView2025-12-15Photos: Walnutport Christmas Trees2025-12-11Photos: Santa arrives in Tamaqua2025-12-11Photos: Lehighton tree lighting2025-12-11Opinion Capitol COLAs leave seniors with tab Many of us over a certain age will be seeing a little more in our Social Security checks beginning in January after the powers-that-be in Wa... Pain: My least favorite teacherLetter to the editor: The AP — Appalling PropogandistsOpinion: Flying cars? Maybe somedayAcute need for more mental health workersOn This Date - News ON THIS DATE DECEMBER 20, 2012 A Pennsylvania black bear found itself the center of attention Wednesday afternoon in Jim Thorpe when it was discovered meandering along Rou... ON THIS DATE DECEMBER 19, 2011DECEMBER 18, 2015ON THIS DATE DECEMBER 17, 2014ON THIS DATE DECEMBER 16, 2013AP News Brighter days ahead after shortest day of the yearMorgue manager gets 8 years for selling body partsTrump gives address insisting economy is strongFBI deputy director to resign next monthBoat strike video won’t be releasedDamage from record flooding still unclearAuthorities appeal for help with shooting investigationNew approach to find living kidney donors‘General Hospital’ star Anthony Geary of Luke and Laura fame dies at 78 « Previous 70 71 72 » Next PASD Title IX findings releasedPalmerton man sentenced for drug traffiicking, weaponJim Thorpe names new fire company leadership teamMan facing attempted homicide charges after shooting in CarbonTamaqua names new superintendent
It’s In Your Nature: Black bears, and a bit about hibernation During the ’70s when I was an undergrad and graduate student at East Stroudsburg State College (now East Stroudsburg Uni... Where We Live: Remembering better times aleap@tnonline.com In six days I will turn 70 and I never thought I would see and hear the things I have in the past... Inside Looking Out: Give me a good story (but not that one!) As a writer for this newspaper, a playwright of six plays, and an author of a novel, I confess that I don’t read enough ... Life with Liz: Oh, those aging pains I did a pretty dumb thing. Granted, it wasn’t an entirely avoidable thing, and I took as many precautions as I could, bu... Warmest Regards: Staying in the present isn’t that easy I’ve told you in past weeks about how I’m striving to live only in the present instead of worrying about the future. Tha... It’s In Your Nature: Take Barry Reed’s visual test I frequently get some photos, videos, or just a question on nature related items from friends or readers of my column. U... Life with Liz: Testing parents We cut the cable cord a few years ago, and although I do feel like I watch a lot of “television,” (probably too much) it... Warmest Regards: Worrywarts waste energy Are you a pessimist, one who believes the worst will happen and tends to expect unfavorable outcomes? Or, are you an opt... Warmest Regards: Believe in the best I’m sharing again the two-sentence quote from a friend that continues to resonated with me. “I know it’s sometimes hard ... Latest Photo GalleriesWreaths Across America at SkyView2025-12-15Photos: Walnutport Christmas Trees2025-12-11Photos: Santa arrives in Tamaqua2025-12-11Photos: Lehighton tree lighting2025-12-11Opinion Capitol COLAs leave seniors with tab Many of us over a certain age will be seeing a little more in our Social Security checks beginning in January after the powers-that-be in Wa... Pain: My least favorite teacherLetter to the editor: The AP — Appalling PropogandistsOpinion: Flying cars? Maybe somedayAcute need for more mental health workersOn This Date - News ON THIS DATE DECEMBER 20, 2012 A Pennsylvania black bear found itself the center of attention Wednesday afternoon in Jim Thorpe when it was discovered meandering along Rou... ON THIS DATE DECEMBER 19, 2011DECEMBER 18, 2015ON THIS DATE DECEMBER 17, 2014ON THIS DATE DECEMBER 16, 2013AP News Brighter days ahead after shortest day of the yearMorgue manager gets 8 years for selling body partsTrump gives address insisting economy is strongFBI deputy director to resign next monthBoat strike video won’t be releasedDamage from record flooding still unclearAuthorities appeal for help with shooting investigationNew approach to find living kidney donors‘General Hospital’ star Anthony Geary of Luke and Laura fame dies at 78 « Previous 70 71 72 » Next PASD Title IX findings releasedPalmerton man sentenced for drug traffiicking, weaponJim Thorpe names new fire company leadership teamMan facing attempted homicide charges after shooting in CarbonTamaqua names new superintendent
Where We Live: Remembering better times aleap@tnonline.com In six days I will turn 70 and I never thought I would see and hear the things I have in the past... Inside Looking Out: Give me a good story (but not that one!) As a writer for this newspaper, a playwright of six plays, and an author of a novel, I confess that I don’t read enough ... Life with Liz: Oh, those aging pains I did a pretty dumb thing. Granted, it wasn’t an entirely avoidable thing, and I took as many precautions as I could, bu... Warmest Regards: Staying in the present isn’t that easy I’ve told you in past weeks about how I’m striving to live only in the present instead of worrying about the future. Tha... It’s In Your Nature: Take Barry Reed’s visual test I frequently get some photos, videos, or just a question on nature related items from friends or readers of my column. U... Life with Liz: Testing parents We cut the cable cord a few years ago, and although I do feel like I watch a lot of “television,” (probably too much) it... Warmest Regards: Worrywarts waste energy Are you a pessimist, one who believes the worst will happen and tends to expect unfavorable outcomes? Or, are you an opt... Warmest Regards: Believe in the best I’m sharing again the two-sentence quote from a friend that continues to resonated with me. “I know it’s sometimes hard ... Latest Photo GalleriesWreaths Across America at SkyView2025-12-15Photos: Walnutport Christmas Trees2025-12-11Photos: Santa arrives in Tamaqua2025-12-11Photos: Lehighton tree lighting2025-12-11Opinion Capitol COLAs leave seniors with tab Many of us over a certain age will be seeing a little more in our Social Security checks beginning in January after the powers-that-be in Wa... Pain: My least favorite teacherLetter to the editor: The AP — Appalling PropogandistsOpinion: Flying cars? Maybe somedayAcute need for more mental health workersOn This Date - News ON THIS DATE DECEMBER 20, 2012 A Pennsylvania black bear found itself the center of attention Wednesday afternoon in Jim Thorpe when it was discovered meandering along Rou... ON THIS DATE DECEMBER 19, 2011DECEMBER 18, 2015ON THIS DATE DECEMBER 17, 2014ON THIS DATE DECEMBER 16, 2013AP News Brighter days ahead after shortest day of the yearMorgue manager gets 8 years for selling body partsTrump gives address insisting economy is strongFBI deputy director to resign next monthBoat strike video won’t be releasedDamage from record flooding still unclearAuthorities appeal for help with shooting investigationNew approach to find living kidney donors‘General Hospital’ star Anthony Geary of Luke and Laura fame dies at 78 « Previous 70 71 72 » Next PASD Title IX findings releasedPalmerton man sentenced for drug traffiicking, weaponJim Thorpe names new fire company leadership teamMan facing attempted homicide charges after shooting in CarbonTamaqua names new superintendent
Inside Looking Out: Give me a good story (but not that one!) As a writer for this newspaper, a playwright of six plays, and an author of a novel, I confess that I don’t read enough ... Life with Liz: Oh, those aging pains I did a pretty dumb thing. Granted, it wasn’t an entirely avoidable thing, and I took as many precautions as I could, bu... Warmest Regards: Staying in the present isn’t that easy I’ve told you in past weeks about how I’m striving to live only in the present instead of worrying about the future. Tha... It’s In Your Nature: Take Barry Reed’s visual test I frequently get some photos, videos, or just a question on nature related items from friends or readers of my column. U... Life with Liz: Testing parents We cut the cable cord a few years ago, and although I do feel like I watch a lot of “television,” (probably too much) it... Warmest Regards: Worrywarts waste energy Are you a pessimist, one who believes the worst will happen and tends to expect unfavorable outcomes? Or, are you an opt... Warmest Regards: Believe in the best I’m sharing again the two-sentence quote from a friend that continues to resonated with me. “I know it’s sometimes hard ... Latest Photo GalleriesWreaths Across America at SkyView2025-12-15Photos: Walnutport Christmas Trees2025-12-11Photos: Santa arrives in Tamaqua2025-12-11Photos: Lehighton tree lighting2025-12-11Opinion Capitol COLAs leave seniors with tab Many of us over a certain age will be seeing a little more in our Social Security checks beginning in January after the powers-that-be in Wa... Pain: My least favorite teacherLetter to the editor: The AP — Appalling PropogandistsOpinion: Flying cars? Maybe somedayAcute need for more mental health workersOn This Date - News ON THIS DATE DECEMBER 20, 2012 A Pennsylvania black bear found itself the center of attention Wednesday afternoon in Jim Thorpe when it was discovered meandering along Rou... ON THIS DATE DECEMBER 19, 2011DECEMBER 18, 2015ON THIS DATE DECEMBER 17, 2014ON THIS DATE DECEMBER 16, 2013AP News Brighter days ahead after shortest day of the yearMorgue manager gets 8 years for selling body partsTrump gives address insisting economy is strongFBI deputy director to resign next monthBoat strike video won’t be releasedDamage from record flooding still unclearAuthorities appeal for help with shooting investigationNew approach to find living kidney donors‘General Hospital’ star Anthony Geary of Luke and Laura fame dies at 78 « Previous 70 71 72 » Next PASD Title IX findings releasedPalmerton man sentenced for drug traffiicking, weaponJim Thorpe names new fire company leadership teamMan facing attempted homicide charges after shooting in CarbonTamaqua names new superintendent
Life with Liz: Oh, those aging pains I did a pretty dumb thing. Granted, it wasn’t an entirely avoidable thing, and I took as many precautions as I could, bu...
Warmest Regards: Staying in the present isn’t that easy I’ve told you in past weeks about how I’m striving to live only in the present instead of worrying about the future. Tha... It’s In Your Nature: Take Barry Reed’s visual test I frequently get some photos, videos, or just a question on nature related items from friends or readers of my column. U... Life with Liz: Testing parents We cut the cable cord a few years ago, and although I do feel like I watch a lot of “television,” (probably too much) it... Warmest Regards: Worrywarts waste energy Are you a pessimist, one who believes the worst will happen and tends to expect unfavorable outcomes? Or, are you an opt... Warmest Regards: Believe in the best I’m sharing again the two-sentence quote from a friend that continues to resonated with me. “I know it’s sometimes hard ... Latest Photo GalleriesWreaths Across America at SkyView2025-12-15Photos: Walnutport Christmas Trees2025-12-11Photos: Santa arrives in Tamaqua2025-12-11Photos: Lehighton tree lighting2025-12-11Opinion Capitol COLAs leave seniors with tab Many of us over a certain age will be seeing a little more in our Social Security checks beginning in January after the powers-that-be in Wa... Pain: My least favorite teacherLetter to the editor: The AP — Appalling PropogandistsOpinion: Flying cars? Maybe somedayAcute need for more mental health workersOn This Date - News ON THIS DATE DECEMBER 20, 2012 A Pennsylvania black bear found itself the center of attention Wednesday afternoon in Jim Thorpe when it was discovered meandering along Rou... ON THIS DATE DECEMBER 19, 2011DECEMBER 18, 2015ON THIS DATE DECEMBER 17, 2014ON THIS DATE DECEMBER 16, 2013AP News Brighter days ahead after shortest day of the yearMorgue manager gets 8 years for selling body partsTrump gives address insisting economy is strongFBI deputy director to resign next monthBoat strike video won’t be releasedDamage from record flooding still unclearAuthorities appeal for help with shooting investigationNew approach to find living kidney donors‘General Hospital’ star Anthony Geary of Luke and Laura fame dies at 78 « Previous 70 71 72 » Next
It’s In Your Nature: Take Barry Reed’s visual test I frequently get some photos, videos, or just a question on nature related items from friends or readers of my column. U... Life with Liz: Testing parents We cut the cable cord a few years ago, and although I do feel like I watch a lot of “television,” (probably too much) it... Warmest Regards: Worrywarts waste energy Are you a pessimist, one who believes the worst will happen and tends to expect unfavorable outcomes? Or, are you an opt... Warmest Regards: Believe in the best I’m sharing again the two-sentence quote from a friend that continues to resonated with me. “I know it’s sometimes hard ... Latest Photo GalleriesWreaths Across America at SkyView2025-12-15Photos: Walnutport Christmas Trees2025-12-11Photos: Santa arrives in Tamaqua2025-12-11Photos: Lehighton tree lighting2025-12-11Opinion Capitol COLAs leave seniors with tab Many of us over a certain age will be seeing a little more in our Social Security checks beginning in January after the powers-that-be in Wa... Pain: My least favorite teacherLetter to the editor: The AP — Appalling PropogandistsOpinion: Flying cars? Maybe somedayAcute need for more mental health workersOn This Date - News ON THIS DATE DECEMBER 20, 2012 A Pennsylvania black bear found itself the center of attention Wednesday afternoon in Jim Thorpe when it was discovered meandering along Rou... ON THIS DATE DECEMBER 19, 2011DECEMBER 18, 2015ON THIS DATE DECEMBER 17, 2014ON THIS DATE DECEMBER 16, 2013AP News Brighter days ahead after shortest day of the yearMorgue manager gets 8 years for selling body partsTrump gives address insisting economy is strongFBI deputy director to resign next monthBoat strike video won’t be releasedDamage from record flooding still unclearAuthorities appeal for help with shooting investigationNew approach to find living kidney donors‘General Hospital’ star Anthony Geary of Luke and Laura fame dies at 78
Life with Liz: Testing parents We cut the cable cord a few years ago, and although I do feel like I watch a lot of “television,” (probably too much) it... Warmest Regards: Worrywarts waste energy Are you a pessimist, one who believes the worst will happen and tends to expect unfavorable outcomes? Or, are you an opt... Warmest Regards: Believe in the best I’m sharing again the two-sentence quote from a friend that continues to resonated with me. “I know it’s sometimes hard ... Latest Photo GalleriesWreaths Across America at SkyView2025-12-15Photos: Walnutport Christmas Trees2025-12-11Photos: Santa arrives in Tamaqua2025-12-11Photos: Lehighton tree lighting2025-12-11Opinion Capitol COLAs leave seniors with tab Many of us over a certain age will be seeing a little more in our Social Security checks beginning in January after the powers-that-be in Wa... Pain: My least favorite teacherLetter to the editor: The AP — Appalling PropogandistsOpinion: Flying cars? Maybe somedayAcute need for more mental health workersOn This Date - News ON THIS DATE DECEMBER 20, 2012 A Pennsylvania black bear found itself the center of attention Wednesday afternoon in Jim Thorpe when it was discovered meandering along Rou... ON THIS DATE DECEMBER 19, 2011DECEMBER 18, 2015ON THIS DATE DECEMBER 17, 2014ON THIS DATE DECEMBER 16, 2013AP News Brighter days ahead after shortest day of the yearMorgue manager gets 8 years for selling body partsTrump gives address insisting economy is strongFBI deputy director to resign next monthBoat strike video won’t be releasedDamage from record flooding still unclearAuthorities appeal for help with shooting investigationNew approach to find living kidney donors‘General Hospital’ star Anthony Geary of Luke and Laura fame dies at 78
Warmest Regards: Worrywarts waste energy Are you a pessimist, one who believes the worst will happen and tends to expect unfavorable outcomes? Or, are you an opt... Warmest Regards: Believe in the best I’m sharing again the two-sentence quote from a friend that continues to resonated with me. “I know it’s sometimes hard ...
Warmest Regards: Believe in the best I’m sharing again the two-sentence quote from a friend that continues to resonated with me. “I know it’s sometimes hard ...
Capitol COLAs leave seniors with tab Many of us over a certain age will be seeing a little more in our Social Security checks beginning in January after the powers-that-be in Wa...
ON THIS DATE DECEMBER 20, 2012 A Pennsylvania black bear found itself the center of attention Wednesday afternoon in Jim Thorpe when it was discovered meandering along Rou...