The Service Learning class at Jim Thorpe Area High School, under the direction of Dave Althouse, held the first of a series of lunches last week to honor and award students who have demonstrated good ...
Temple Israel of Lehighton, 194 Bankway St., Lehighton, is hosting a hamishe, a comfortable, familylike, Shabbat Potluck at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 25. Mike Bassano's amazing pasta will be the centerpi...
Air Products and Chemicals of Hometown recently donated new chairs to Marian Catholic High School. The chairs are an addition to the original chairs in the school's cafeteria, which were previously pu...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced a program of fisheries enhancement releases, and a schedule of planned dam releases for whitewater recreation on the Lehigh River. Subject to water availabil...
By jim zbick
jzbick@tnonline.comDuring a 10-day period in February 1911, three big news stories, all involving firearms, stunned area residents. Two of the local incidents occurred in neighboring comm...
The warmest weather since December 1 arrived Thursday and Friday, giving people a breather from the series of storms and bitter cold weather we've endured. Deanna Leiblwitz, left, of Coaldale, and Kim...
Five first time offenders in the criminal justice system were placed in Carbon County's Accelerated Rehabilitation Disposition (ARD) probation program on Thursday by Senior Judge Richard W. Webb.
If a...
In my previous articles, I have mentioned that our education system is failing. To demonstrate this, let me ask a simple question.
Who was the first President of the United States? George Washington, ...
A Carbon County man has been cited in Slatington.
Borough police said about 9:55 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 17, they were alerted to three people walking in the 500 block of W. Church St. yelling and scre...
St. Jerome Regional School, Tamaqua, participated in the National Geographic Geography Bee. The winner of the Bee was Nico Agosti, Grade 8. Runner-up was Ethan Kuczynski, Grade 6 and Ryan Morgans, Gra...