Sherry A. Akins of Tamaqua, recently completed studies from The International Sports Science Association where she majored in Certified Fitness Trainer and earned a 4.0 grade point average.
Akins has ...
A new chapter in Pleasant Valley history was written this past baseball season.
As it turns out, Pat Kregeloh was both the author and the publisher.It was a year of many firsts for the Pleasant Valley...
June 22, 1941 In a classic pitcher's duel, Mauch Chunk's Norwood Mack gets the better of Weissport's Stewart Izer in hurling his team to a 1-0 Black Diamond League victory. Mack finishes with a two-hi...
Lansford Borough Council listened Monday as a municipal planner walked them through what council President Bob Gaughan called an "owner's manual" for the borough and its adjacent communities.
Nanci Sa...
A daughter, Emily Paige Wychulis, was born on May 20, 2010 in Silver Springs, Md., to Rebekah and Michael Wychulis of Germantown, Md.
She weighed 7 pounds, 8 ounces and measured 19 inches long. She wa...
James Ketchledge, 12, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Ketchledge, Lehighton, had a narrow escape from death this morning shortly before 10 o'clock when he was trapped on a cliff 30 feet above the Central R...
Dial-a-Devotion
Dial-a-Devotion speakers for June are: Sunday, Martha Cox; Monday, Jenny Keiper; Tuesday, Shirley Radler; Wednesday, Rose Marie Austin; Thursday, Vicky Kocher; and Friday, Jean Mertz.C...
Danielle Splendora Seymour, daughter of Beth Banditelli Seymour of Coaldale, graduated from Shippensburg University with a bachelor of science degree in Business Administration, with a concentrationin...
Although the Weissport Playground looks like it should open soon, a problem with the tire mulch has the facility temporarily closed.
As volunteers were completing tasks at the playground, they found t...
Adam Demyanovich, a sophomore at Penn State University, has been named to the dean's list for the spring 2010 semester, with a grade-point average of 3.86. He is majoring in finance.
Adam is the son o...