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If the ominous forecast rings true, your new best friend will be the neighborhood plow guy. Seriously, 12 to 17 inches of snow can be overwhelming to clear from sidewalks and driveways. The hype start...

Carbon County’s new budget isn’t flashy, but its priorities are pretty straightforward. Its goals: Pay the folks who are actually doing the work, live within taxpayers means’ and cut out the long-empt...

It’s a regular Tuesday night in any of the area’s boroughs, townships or school districts. At their monthly meeting, officials are doing the usual things — paying bills, handling citizen concerns, ma...

As they closed out their 2025 spending plan and began to map out a new path for the coming year, supervisors in Franklin Township decided to buy a Cadillac. It was new, but not shiny. It didn’t have l...

It’s 2 a.m. and there’s a knock at the door. Your stomach drops. You know before you open it that the news on the other side isn’t good. A family member — generally a good person with a real problem...

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 Washington decided we’d see just a 2.8% cost of living increas...

My father used to tell stories about growing up in the 1930s. His family had the only radio on the block and the front porch on a summer night was a gathering place for neighbors of all ages. One of...

It’s that time of year again. Temperatures are falling and the leaves are gone. As winter approaches, though, the issues surrounding those dealing with housing insecurity are coming to the forefront...