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The Jim Thorpe Area School Board, comprised of Jim Thorpe Borough and Penn Forest Township, voted unanimously at last night’s meeting against the recent state act stipulating that the size of school d...

Employees of five Carbon County blouse factories joined a host of Lehigh Valley factory workers this morning in staging a strike “for more money and better working conditions,” a spokesman for the Int...

A Carbon County International Farm Youth Exchange Committee was organized last night to raise necessary funds to make possible a six-month visit of a county 4-H club member to Turkey. Dawne Sensinger,...

Officers of Region 21 of the Future Business Leaders of America were formally installed during the Regional Leadership Conference held Saturday in the Weatherly Area High School. Two of the host schoo...

Edward A. Hutto, 37, who is chief of the six-man Rasom, West Virginia, Police Department, was hired last night to serve as the new police chief for the Borough of Lehighton. The new local chief has 15...

Allen D. Ruter was welcomed as the new dean of business affairs at Lehigh County Community College. Ruter, who resides in Slatington R.1 with his wife, Sandy, and two sons, Joshua and Jed, comes to LC...

Mrs. Mildred (Boyet) DeBellis, 81, of Jim Thorpe, was a third place finisher in a national shuffleboard tournament held in Hollywood, Florida. Mrs. DeBellis, a beautician by trade in Jim Thorpe for ov...

It was like a homecoming last night in Jim Thorpe when His Excellency, the Most Rev. Bishop Thomas J. Welsh of the Diocese of Allentown, came home for the first time since his appointment as the succe...

Students from the S.S. Palmer School in Palmerton registered a sweep last night in the Eighth Annual Times News-Carbon County Spelling Bee. The seventh grade champion was Mandi Mendez, 12, daughter of...

The committee planning the third annual Coaldale Hospital Festival met last night and named committee persons for various aspects of the July event. Robert Ames of Coaldale is the general chairman of ...