By BOB URBAN
rurban@tnonline.comWe all live by rules. At least we should live by them. Someone sent me a list of the rules of rural Pennsylvania. See if you can relate to them.1. Let's get this straig...
Last month was Kathryn's third birthday and the theme of the month chosen by my daughter was pirates. She wanted to dress up as a pirate so we took the idea for our annual October theme. This year was...
Last weekend, the DeSales University men's soccer team used the strength of three-first half goals to score 3-0 victory over Eastern University for the program's fourth Freedom Conference Championahip...
Dear Editor:
As a fresh crop of politicians who will vote for more war, more debt and more loss of freedom prepare to take their oath to protect and defend a constitution they most likely never read l...
Dear Editor:
The people of Carbon County missed a great parade.The weather was sunny but chilly. It may have been cooler for the almost 1,300 parade marchers that waited to parade down Delaware Avenue...
Former students, friends and colleagues will combine their voices and instrumental music talents to pay tribute to John Goodman, former music teacher in the Palmerton Area School District, on Sunday.
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A bill introduced in the U.S. Senate would protect traditional ammunition and fishing tackle from being banned by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The bill, S. 3850, introduced on September 2...
Richard O'Donnell was born at Penn Haven Junction - a pretty unlikely place to be born. It may well have been the most isolated habitation in Carbon County. The closest road was about five miles away....
Dear Editor:
After reading Donald Serfass's commentary on "The Fix", I was equally disheartened and angry. Let me count the ways:First, $40 trillion to "buy down" 40 million jobs could not be financed...
Headline-writing is an art form of the highest order. Trying to get the true essence of a story into a few words takes skill and ability.
Those who work on small community newspapers, such as The TIME...