Employees work on the reconstruction of First Street in Lehighton during the night in an effort to least impact traffic flow. The work involves the repaving of Route 209 from the Thomas McCall Memoria...
Golden agers
The Panther Valley Golden Agers met on July 12 with a presentation on preventing identity theft by Janine Holter from the Attorney General's Office.Fran Golder read an inspirational messa...
Delaware Valley College freshman Jess Bensinger earned a spot on the all-Freedom Conference softball team.
Bensinger, a Tamaqua High School graduate, was a second-team selection behind the plate as th...
It was a game that was hard enough to watch yet alone play in for the Franklin Township Hurricanes.
In the winner's bracket final of the Keystone Babe Ruth League's National Division Tournament agains...
State police at Fern Ridge are investigating an attempted theft from a vehicle incident.
Troopers said on July 16 about 10:10 p.m. a male attempted to enter a parked 1988 Volvo 740 GLE along Jackson R...
Onlookers gathered outside the entrance to the darkened Opera House on both of the muggy evenings last week when they saw the glow of monitors inside the building entrance.
Some thought one of the man...
The Tamaqua Story of Another Band played recently at the East End Park as part of the East End Park Commission's free community band concert two-day event held annually at the park's stage shell.
Paula Zelienka of Palmerton is donating two of her watercolor paintings to the Palmerton Area Historical Society for its fundraising events as it celebrates its 20th anniversary.
"It makes me feel goo...
Experts agree that drawing a top ballot position dramatically increases a candidate's chances in an election.
The science is there to back them up.Citing the results of Benford's law in statistics, At...
Four-year-old Leah Black of Lake Hauto does a little boating at the 76th annual St. Joseph Parish Festival in Summit Hill. The boats, which were in a pool of water, were among the rides at the event.