I always enjoy the national news but I usually can't make sense of it. This past week was typical. The national media tried to make us believe that virtually all Americans were concerned about the bas...

Valley Athletic Supply is at the top of the standings of the Eastern Schuylkill Recreation Commission's summer volleyball league. Valley will face second-place Sandstorm on Tuesday night at 7:30. RESU...

Dear Editor: As state Attorney General and gubernational candidate, one would think Tom Corbett would bump into Sandi Vito, Pa. Secretary of Labor and Industry, in his travels around the Capitol Compl...

The one thing about life is that nothing ever stays the same for very long. If that premise is accepted, almost anything is tolerable as long as there is hope. For me it was about 10 months ago that I...

Dear Editor: Have some people, perhaps not many, seen the magnificent crochet American Flags hanging in the front windows of some businesses on Delaware Avenue in Palmerton?There is a particularly lar...

Dear Editor: This was a 4th of July weekend of infamy that will go down in history as a moment when American legislators trashed unemployed Americans. We cannot forget those politicians who deliberate...

Carbon-Monroe-Pike MH/MR Program Advisory Board will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, July 26, at the Carbon-Monroe-Pike MH/MR Program's administrative conference room, 724 Phillips St., Suite 202, second floor...

Dear Editor: Now that the preliminaries are over, I guess we can look forward to a lot of boring, disgusting, half-truth political commercials and loads of taxpayer-funded mail ads until November. I i...

There will be a Monroe County Youth Field Day on Saturday, Sept. 18 from 7:15 a.m.-5 p.m. (rain or shine) at Camp Trexler in Jonas. This event is FREE to boys and girls ages 8-14. They must be registe...