As I walked out of Dr. Donald Newman's office last year, I was scoffing at his diagnosis.
"Cataracts. Hmmmph. I'm way too young for cataracts. That's an old person's condition."I mentally disregarded ...
A flock of young turkeys appears to be enjoying its fest of corn Thursday afternoon in a remote area of Franklin Township. The flock was feasting on corn from an adjacent corn field, a long time favor...
New officers of the Mahoning Township Lions Club were installed, with Tom Zimmerman IV again serving as president. Officers are, l-r,
Bob Hayman, director; Zimmerman; Bob Condley, secretary; Wally Hri...
The Carbon County Department of Veterans Affairs held a Patriots' Day (9/11) memorial service at Josiah White Park in Jim Thorpe on Friday morning.
The event was organized and coordinated by Henry Des...
Dear Editor:
This weekend we remember, with profound sadness, when horror struck New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. When Christian and Jew, Muslim and Buddhist, Agnostic and Atheist, people from a...
Dear Editor,
After reading the article on the jobless rate in Carbon County it occurred to me that there was a large industry in our county that was over looked and of course that does not surprise me...
By Bob Urban
burban@tnonline.comEven though I sit in front of a computer most of the day, I still find myself longing for the old days, when things were simpler and less stressful. You know, the days ...
Dear Editor:
They are called false flag operations and every conflict the United States has entered in the past 100 years has been incited by one. The most generally accepted is the Gulf of Tonkin inc...
Former students of East Mauch Chunk High School from the school's final year of 1954 on backwards in time gathered under the pavilion at Jim Thorpe Memorial Park last Saturday for a multi-year class r...
Dear Editor:
* I enjoyed the letter written to the parents of the Hillary Rodham Clinton Elementary School Home of the "Fighting Pantsuits." First item brings toilet paper.* Is it true statement by th...