Opinion: Salary dilemma for Carbon commissioners Just as many employers in the private sector of our economy are feeling the need to balance the salaries of their employ... Opinion: Climate change — our Achilles’ heel As my sons and I sat on the beach in Hilton Head, South Carolina, last month watching one of the resort community’s spec... Opinion: Turnpike finances one big pileup There may be no such thing as a free lunch, if the old saying is to be believed, but for far too many drivers there is s... Opinion: 1,000 reasons to keep writing This is my 1,000th column published in the Times News since Publisher Emeritus Fred Masenheimer invited me to share my t... Opinion: Is it fair to forgive students’ debt? There is a lot of happiness and anger over the proposed $10,000 student loan forgiveness program, $20,000 for those who ... Opinion: Right leaders to deal with disaster In a column last June I introduced readers to the Lee County Sheriff’s Department’s Citizens Academy, a 12-week interact... Opinion: Guns and children A 15-year-old Allentown boy was gunned down in broad daylight Sept. 25 by a 16-year-old after an argument between them, ... Opinion: Pa. senior tax rebate needs an update I have some good news and some bad news for those on Social Security who also get the Pennsylvania real estate tax rebat... Opinion: Drilling ban devastating to impoverished Navajo Nation While the Biden administration gloats that gasoline prices have trickled down during the summer, it fails to mention tha... Opinion: Short-term rentals challenge resort communities Imagine this scenario: You live in New York City, and you have been among the horde of visitors to the Poconos for years... Latest Photo GalleriesLehighton Rotary Christmas Craft Festival2025-11-07Mahoning Dusk-to-Dawn Scare-athon2025-11-06Tamaqua Halloween Parade 20252025-10-302025 Northern Lehigh Halloween Parade2025-10-30Opinion Opinion: Veterans’ lives, sacrifices ensure our freedom Take a ride through any of areas in and around Carbon and Schuylkill counties and you’ll see them. Etched in stone and embossed in granite a... Utility customers given grace in the shutdownWhere have all the heroes gone?Letter to the editor: What happened to municipal records at Slatington borough?Opinion: Your vote counts the most close to homeOn This Date - News NOVEMBER 7, 1984 The Free and Accepted Masons Lodge No. 440, Slatington, celebrated the 115th anniversary of its founding at a banquet held at the First Unit... NOVEMBER 6, 1982ON THIS DATE NOVEMBER 5, 1979ON THIS DATE NOVEMBER 4, 1980NOVEMBER 3, 1978AP News 2 counties had to replace poll books TuesdayFormer VP Dick Cheney dies at 84Judges: Use reserves for SNAP paymentsJudge questions plan to suspend SNAP benefitsDemocrats pour millions into Pa. Supreme Court raceHaiti, Jamaica and Cuba pick up the pieces after Melissa’s destructionMan pleads guilty to arson at governor’s mansionGun control fuels intense House debate4 dead, 8 injured in Michigan church shooting, fire « Previous 31 32 33 » Next Effort man charged with nearly 350 counts of child porn4 newcomers on Lehighton boardPalmerton area votingThe Shoe Department to open soon Carbon Plaza center in transitionPASD Election Results
Opinion: Climate change — our Achilles’ heel As my sons and I sat on the beach in Hilton Head, South Carolina, last month watching one of the resort community’s spec... Opinion: Turnpike finances one big pileup There may be no such thing as a free lunch, if the old saying is to be believed, but for far too many drivers there is s... Opinion: 1,000 reasons to keep writing This is my 1,000th column published in the Times News since Publisher Emeritus Fred Masenheimer invited me to share my t... Opinion: Is it fair to forgive students’ debt? There is a lot of happiness and anger over the proposed $10,000 student loan forgiveness program, $20,000 for those who ... Opinion: Right leaders to deal with disaster In a column last June I introduced readers to the Lee County Sheriff’s Department’s Citizens Academy, a 12-week interact... Opinion: Guns and children A 15-year-old Allentown boy was gunned down in broad daylight Sept. 25 by a 16-year-old after an argument between them, ... Opinion: Pa. senior tax rebate needs an update I have some good news and some bad news for those on Social Security who also get the Pennsylvania real estate tax rebat... Opinion: Drilling ban devastating to impoverished Navajo Nation While the Biden administration gloats that gasoline prices have trickled down during the summer, it fails to mention tha... Opinion: Short-term rentals challenge resort communities Imagine this scenario: You live in New York City, and you have been among the horde of visitors to the Poconos for years... Latest Photo GalleriesLehighton Rotary Christmas Craft Festival2025-11-07Mahoning Dusk-to-Dawn Scare-athon2025-11-06Tamaqua Halloween Parade 20252025-10-302025 Northern Lehigh Halloween Parade2025-10-30Opinion Opinion: Veterans’ lives, sacrifices ensure our freedom Take a ride through any of areas in and around Carbon and Schuylkill counties and you’ll see them. Etched in stone and embossed in granite a... Utility customers given grace in the shutdownWhere have all the heroes gone?Letter to the editor: What happened to municipal records at Slatington borough?Opinion: Your vote counts the most close to homeOn This Date - News NOVEMBER 7, 1984 The Free and Accepted Masons Lodge No. 440, Slatington, celebrated the 115th anniversary of its founding at a banquet held at the First Unit... NOVEMBER 6, 1982ON THIS DATE NOVEMBER 5, 1979ON THIS DATE NOVEMBER 4, 1980NOVEMBER 3, 1978AP News 2 counties had to replace poll books TuesdayFormer VP Dick Cheney dies at 84Judges: Use reserves for SNAP paymentsJudge questions plan to suspend SNAP benefitsDemocrats pour millions into Pa. Supreme Court raceHaiti, Jamaica and Cuba pick up the pieces after Melissa’s destructionMan pleads guilty to arson at governor’s mansionGun control fuels intense House debate4 dead, 8 injured in Michigan church shooting, fire « Previous 31 32 33 » Next Effort man charged with nearly 350 counts of child porn4 newcomers on Lehighton boardPalmerton area votingThe Shoe Department to open soon Carbon Plaza center in transitionPASD Election Results
Opinion: Turnpike finances one big pileup There may be no such thing as a free lunch, if the old saying is to be believed, but for far too many drivers there is s... Opinion: 1,000 reasons to keep writing This is my 1,000th column published in the Times News since Publisher Emeritus Fred Masenheimer invited me to share my t... Opinion: Is it fair to forgive students’ debt? There is a lot of happiness and anger over the proposed $10,000 student loan forgiveness program, $20,000 for those who ... Opinion: Right leaders to deal with disaster In a column last June I introduced readers to the Lee County Sheriff’s Department’s Citizens Academy, a 12-week interact... Opinion: Guns and children A 15-year-old Allentown boy was gunned down in broad daylight Sept. 25 by a 16-year-old after an argument between them, ... Opinion: Pa. senior tax rebate needs an update I have some good news and some bad news for those on Social Security who also get the Pennsylvania real estate tax rebat... Opinion: Drilling ban devastating to impoverished Navajo Nation While the Biden administration gloats that gasoline prices have trickled down during the summer, it fails to mention tha... Opinion: Short-term rentals challenge resort communities Imagine this scenario: You live in New York City, and you have been among the horde of visitors to the Poconos for years... Latest Photo GalleriesLehighton Rotary Christmas Craft Festival2025-11-07Mahoning Dusk-to-Dawn Scare-athon2025-11-06Tamaqua Halloween Parade 20252025-10-302025 Northern Lehigh Halloween Parade2025-10-30Opinion Opinion: Veterans’ lives, sacrifices ensure our freedom Take a ride through any of areas in and around Carbon and Schuylkill counties and you’ll see them. Etched in stone and embossed in granite a... Utility customers given grace in the shutdownWhere have all the heroes gone?Letter to the editor: What happened to municipal records at Slatington borough?Opinion: Your vote counts the most close to homeOn This Date - News NOVEMBER 7, 1984 The Free and Accepted Masons Lodge No. 440, Slatington, celebrated the 115th anniversary of its founding at a banquet held at the First Unit... NOVEMBER 6, 1982ON THIS DATE NOVEMBER 5, 1979ON THIS DATE NOVEMBER 4, 1980NOVEMBER 3, 1978AP News 2 counties had to replace poll books TuesdayFormer VP Dick Cheney dies at 84Judges: Use reserves for SNAP paymentsJudge questions plan to suspend SNAP benefitsDemocrats pour millions into Pa. Supreme Court raceHaiti, Jamaica and Cuba pick up the pieces after Melissa’s destructionMan pleads guilty to arson at governor’s mansionGun control fuels intense House debate4 dead, 8 injured in Michigan church shooting, fire « Previous 31 32 33 » Next Effort man charged with nearly 350 counts of child porn4 newcomers on Lehighton boardPalmerton area votingThe Shoe Department to open soon Carbon Plaza center in transitionPASD Election Results
Opinion: 1,000 reasons to keep writing This is my 1,000th column published in the Times News since Publisher Emeritus Fred Masenheimer invited me to share my t... Opinion: Is it fair to forgive students’ debt? There is a lot of happiness and anger over the proposed $10,000 student loan forgiveness program, $20,000 for those who ... Opinion: Right leaders to deal with disaster In a column last June I introduced readers to the Lee County Sheriff’s Department’s Citizens Academy, a 12-week interact... Opinion: Guns and children A 15-year-old Allentown boy was gunned down in broad daylight Sept. 25 by a 16-year-old after an argument between them, ... Opinion: Pa. senior tax rebate needs an update I have some good news and some bad news for those on Social Security who also get the Pennsylvania real estate tax rebat... Opinion: Drilling ban devastating to impoverished Navajo Nation While the Biden administration gloats that gasoline prices have trickled down during the summer, it fails to mention tha... Opinion: Short-term rentals challenge resort communities Imagine this scenario: You live in New York City, and you have been among the horde of visitors to the Poconos for years... Latest Photo GalleriesLehighton Rotary Christmas Craft Festival2025-11-07Mahoning Dusk-to-Dawn Scare-athon2025-11-06Tamaqua Halloween Parade 20252025-10-302025 Northern Lehigh Halloween Parade2025-10-30Opinion Opinion: Veterans’ lives, sacrifices ensure our freedom Take a ride through any of areas in and around Carbon and Schuylkill counties and you’ll see them. Etched in stone and embossed in granite a... Utility customers given grace in the shutdownWhere have all the heroes gone?Letter to the editor: What happened to municipal records at Slatington borough?Opinion: Your vote counts the most close to homeOn This Date - News NOVEMBER 7, 1984 The Free and Accepted Masons Lodge No. 440, Slatington, celebrated the 115th anniversary of its founding at a banquet held at the First Unit... NOVEMBER 6, 1982ON THIS DATE NOVEMBER 5, 1979ON THIS DATE NOVEMBER 4, 1980NOVEMBER 3, 1978AP News 2 counties had to replace poll books TuesdayFormer VP Dick Cheney dies at 84Judges: Use reserves for SNAP paymentsJudge questions plan to suspend SNAP benefitsDemocrats pour millions into Pa. Supreme Court raceHaiti, Jamaica and Cuba pick up the pieces after Melissa’s destructionMan pleads guilty to arson at governor’s mansionGun control fuels intense House debate4 dead, 8 injured in Michigan church shooting, fire « Previous 31 32 33 » Next Effort man charged with nearly 350 counts of child porn4 newcomers on Lehighton boardPalmerton area votingThe Shoe Department to open soon Carbon Plaza center in transitionPASD Election Results
Opinion: Is it fair to forgive students’ debt? There is a lot of happiness and anger over the proposed $10,000 student loan forgiveness program, $20,000 for those who ...
Opinion: Right leaders to deal with disaster In a column last June I introduced readers to the Lee County Sheriff’s Department’s Citizens Academy, a 12-week interact... Opinion: Guns and children A 15-year-old Allentown boy was gunned down in broad daylight Sept. 25 by a 16-year-old after an argument between them, ... Opinion: Pa. senior tax rebate needs an update I have some good news and some bad news for those on Social Security who also get the Pennsylvania real estate tax rebat... Opinion: Drilling ban devastating to impoverished Navajo Nation While the Biden administration gloats that gasoline prices have trickled down during the summer, it fails to mention tha... Opinion: Short-term rentals challenge resort communities Imagine this scenario: You live in New York City, and you have been among the horde of visitors to the Poconos for years... Latest Photo GalleriesLehighton Rotary Christmas Craft Festival2025-11-07Mahoning Dusk-to-Dawn Scare-athon2025-11-06Tamaqua Halloween Parade 20252025-10-302025 Northern Lehigh Halloween Parade2025-10-30Opinion Opinion: Veterans’ lives, sacrifices ensure our freedom Take a ride through any of areas in and around Carbon and Schuylkill counties and you’ll see them. Etched in stone and embossed in granite a... Utility customers given grace in the shutdownWhere have all the heroes gone?Letter to the editor: What happened to municipal records at Slatington borough?Opinion: Your vote counts the most close to homeOn This Date - News NOVEMBER 7, 1984 The Free and Accepted Masons Lodge No. 440, Slatington, celebrated the 115th anniversary of its founding at a banquet held at the First Unit... NOVEMBER 6, 1982ON THIS DATE NOVEMBER 5, 1979ON THIS DATE NOVEMBER 4, 1980NOVEMBER 3, 1978AP News 2 counties had to replace poll books TuesdayFormer VP Dick Cheney dies at 84Judges: Use reserves for SNAP paymentsJudge questions plan to suspend SNAP benefitsDemocrats pour millions into Pa. Supreme Court raceHaiti, Jamaica and Cuba pick up the pieces after Melissa’s destructionMan pleads guilty to arson at governor’s mansionGun control fuels intense House debate4 dead, 8 injured in Michigan church shooting, fire « Previous 31 32 33 » Next
Opinion: Guns and children A 15-year-old Allentown boy was gunned down in broad daylight Sept. 25 by a 16-year-old after an argument between them, ... Opinion: Pa. senior tax rebate needs an update I have some good news and some bad news for those on Social Security who also get the Pennsylvania real estate tax rebat... Opinion: Drilling ban devastating to impoverished Navajo Nation While the Biden administration gloats that gasoline prices have trickled down during the summer, it fails to mention tha... Opinion: Short-term rentals challenge resort communities Imagine this scenario: You live in New York City, and you have been among the horde of visitors to the Poconos for years... Latest Photo GalleriesLehighton Rotary Christmas Craft Festival2025-11-07Mahoning Dusk-to-Dawn Scare-athon2025-11-06Tamaqua Halloween Parade 20252025-10-302025 Northern Lehigh Halloween Parade2025-10-30Opinion Opinion: Veterans’ lives, sacrifices ensure our freedom Take a ride through any of areas in and around Carbon and Schuylkill counties and you’ll see them. Etched in stone and embossed in granite a... Utility customers given grace in the shutdownWhere have all the heroes gone?Letter to the editor: What happened to municipal records at Slatington borough?Opinion: Your vote counts the most close to homeOn This Date - News NOVEMBER 7, 1984 The Free and Accepted Masons Lodge No. 440, Slatington, celebrated the 115th anniversary of its founding at a banquet held at the First Unit... NOVEMBER 6, 1982ON THIS DATE NOVEMBER 5, 1979ON THIS DATE NOVEMBER 4, 1980NOVEMBER 3, 1978AP News 2 counties had to replace poll books TuesdayFormer VP Dick Cheney dies at 84Judges: Use reserves for SNAP paymentsJudge questions plan to suspend SNAP benefitsDemocrats pour millions into Pa. Supreme Court raceHaiti, Jamaica and Cuba pick up the pieces after Melissa’s destructionMan pleads guilty to arson at governor’s mansionGun control fuels intense House debate4 dead, 8 injured in Michigan church shooting, fire
Opinion: Pa. senior tax rebate needs an update I have some good news and some bad news for those on Social Security who also get the Pennsylvania real estate tax rebat... Opinion: Drilling ban devastating to impoverished Navajo Nation While the Biden administration gloats that gasoline prices have trickled down during the summer, it fails to mention tha... Opinion: Short-term rentals challenge resort communities Imagine this scenario: You live in New York City, and you have been among the horde of visitors to the Poconos for years... Latest Photo GalleriesLehighton Rotary Christmas Craft Festival2025-11-07Mahoning Dusk-to-Dawn Scare-athon2025-11-06Tamaqua Halloween Parade 20252025-10-302025 Northern Lehigh Halloween Parade2025-10-30Opinion Opinion: Veterans’ lives, sacrifices ensure our freedom Take a ride through any of areas in and around Carbon and Schuylkill counties and you’ll see them. Etched in stone and embossed in granite a... Utility customers given grace in the shutdownWhere have all the heroes gone?Letter to the editor: What happened to municipal records at Slatington borough?Opinion: Your vote counts the most close to homeOn This Date - News NOVEMBER 7, 1984 The Free and Accepted Masons Lodge No. 440, Slatington, celebrated the 115th anniversary of its founding at a banquet held at the First Unit... NOVEMBER 6, 1982ON THIS DATE NOVEMBER 5, 1979ON THIS DATE NOVEMBER 4, 1980NOVEMBER 3, 1978AP News 2 counties had to replace poll books TuesdayFormer VP Dick Cheney dies at 84Judges: Use reserves for SNAP paymentsJudge questions plan to suspend SNAP benefitsDemocrats pour millions into Pa. Supreme Court raceHaiti, Jamaica and Cuba pick up the pieces after Melissa’s destructionMan pleads guilty to arson at governor’s mansionGun control fuels intense House debate4 dead, 8 injured in Michigan church shooting, fire
Opinion: Drilling ban devastating to impoverished Navajo Nation While the Biden administration gloats that gasoline prices have trickled down during the summer, it fails to mention tha... Opinion: Short-term rentals challenge resort communities Imagine this scenario: You live in New York City, and you have been among the horde of visitors to the Poconos for years...
Opinion: Short-term rentals challenge resort communities Imagine this scenario: You live in New York City, and you have been among the horde of visitors to the Poconos for years...
Opinion: Veterans’ lives, sacrifices ensure our freedom Take a ride through any of areas in and around Carbon and Schuylkill counties and you’ll see them. Etched in stone and embossed in granite a...
NOVEMBER 7, 1984 The Free and Accepted Masons Lodge No. 440, Slatington, celebrated the 115th anniversary of its founding at a banquet held at the First Unit...