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Updated: Oct 10, 2026 at 09:47 AM
Save for the years I spent on the East Stroudsburg State College campus, I’ve lived 64 years of my life in the Weissport, Lehighton and Ashfield areas.
I still feel Carbon County is my home. I once sw...
Published: Oct 03, 2026 at 01:51 AM
It might be called the Mystery Bell because nobody is quite sure which schoolhouse it came from.
But the bell, made by a famous craftsman at a legendary foundry, attracted lots of interest at a recent...
Published: Sep 26, 2026 at 09:14 AM
July: Heat, humidity, gnats, mosquitoes, dry, crunchy lawns, Barry sweating too much, and few birds singing.
August: Ditto, except now the forest foliage is even losing the bright green hues that were...
Updated: Sep 22, 2026 at 01:14 PM
Back in July I penned a column highlighting probably my best birding and nature area, Assateague Island, off Maryland and Virginia.
I guess because we have so little shoreline and marsh areas in the T...
Published: Sep 12, 2026 at 08:57 AM
The Coal Miners Heritage Festival in Lansford, now in its 19th year, continues to offer something just not available anyplace else — a full-day celebration of authentic coal culture.
Attendees who flo...
Published: Sep 05, 2026 at 09:05 AM
For the past 28 years Patricia Schneider had been head of the West End Fair Museum with co-chair Dorothy Davidson, who passed away earlier this year.
Schneider explained that the front of the building...
Published: Aug 29, 2026 at 09:03 AM
I looked back at notes in my birding log and it brought to mind all the changes that happen near us in next 30 days or so. The first week of September often is just a rerun of the hot weather of July ...
Published: Aug 22, 2026 at 12:56 AM
f you had to put a dollar value on each day of your life, how much would it be?
Ask Jim Olszewski of Tamaqua. “Every new morning that I open my eyes is going to be a 10 million dollar day.”
Olszewski ...
Published: Aug 15, 2026 at 07:56 AM
handprint on a jail cell wall. Leg bones found in a closet. A courthouse modeled after Big Ben. For those who walk the streets of Jim Thorpe with guide Jo Lynn Gazo, history is never just a story. It’...
Published: Aug 01, 2026 at 09:18 AM
Some folks will see great beauty in a restored 1955 Chevy. I know whenever I visit a car show, the classic cars do make me appreciate them and those who painstakingly restore them.
Others will find cl...