Shade Tree plans
The Summit Hill Shade Tree Commission will be conducting the fall planting on the streets of the borough on the last weekend in October. This is the 10th year the commission has been ...
By JED FISHER
fisherfa@gmail.com(Editorial comment: Bob Urban, whose Back Again column regularly appears in this space, is on vacation. Substituting today is First Lieutenant Jed Fisher, who is curren...
The next time you want to be totally surprised, just ask a child to name a hero. Any hero. Some will surely name Superman, because "The Man of Steel" is always pictured helping people with his extraor...
An Albrightsville man was sentenced to a county prison term on Thursday in a case which was called a "drug deal gone bad." He was one of several defendants in pending drug-related cases to enter a ple...
The 2009-2010 Marian Catholic Peer Listeners were inducted at a special Mass, which was held Wednesday at the high school. Inducted as a Peer Listener were center: Joseph Kloap; second row: Cathleen C...
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Mantz of Coaldale will celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary on Sept. 15. They were married in 1984, at St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church in Lansford, by the Revs. Thomas Derz...
Free community supper
A free community supper will be held from 4 to 6 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 27, at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 21 Race St., Jim Thorpe. The meal will be baked ziti.
True to its perch atop the Anthracite Football League standings, the North Schuylkill Spartans ran roughshod over the Marian Colts on Friday night at the Men of Marian Stadium, Hometown, delivering a ...
Speeding
Michael Oncay, 43, of 231 Delaware Avenue, Palmerton, was cited for speeding. The violation occurred on Sept. 11 at 10:26 p.m. in the 500 block of Delaware Avenue.A citation was issued to Tan...
A father and son who operated an underground coal mine in the western part of Schuylkill County where an explosion occurred in 2006 killing a miner, entered into a negotiated plea with the state Attor...