Dear Editor:
Like many of your fellow constituents, I remember a time when our local highways were a source of pride, opportunity and convenience. Our bridges were safe, our commutes were fast and con...
A Lehighton man has been charged in the theft of a $250 Columbia bicycle from a grocery store employee.
Derek Michael Beers, 20, of the 500 building, Gypsy Hill Apartments, was arrested and will be ch...
A Philadelphia woman faces a charge of giving false identification to Lansford police.
Tiffany Bright, 29, of 907 Watkins St., was charged after an incident on East Patterson Street in April. She was ...
The first official practice sessions for area high school football teams are just 48 hours away.
Monday is the first day fall sports teams can open practice according to PIAA rules and all nine area f...
I'm sitting on the creaky, wooden, 1940s-era office chair in the home office of our old farmhouse. The small room holds two vintage wooden desks, one at each window; a battered old metal filing cabine...
The North Central Pa. Regional Sobriety Checkpoint DUI Taskforce and Expanded DUI/Underage Drinking Enforcement Program has released the following statistics from a sobriety checkpoint and roving patr...
Lately, I've noticed that many of us are burdened by the troubles of our times. The news in the paper and on television is bad. The economy continues to slide into a double dip recession. Jobs continu...
Planting the American flag he had carried from the northeastern tip of Long Island on June 22, 2009, to the cold breaking waves of the Pacific Ocean on the coast of Santa Monica, Calif., on July 4, 20...
Operation: Touch of Home (OTOH) began in 2003 when Dean and Sharon Green of Effort, had been to see their son, Christopher Green at Camp LeJeune Marine Base in Jacksonville, N.C. just before he was de...
Area residents who made pledges during the 2010 American Cancer Society Telethon in April are reminded to send those pledges to the ACS office at 33 Ridge St., Lansford, PA 18232. Above: Telethon chai...