Budget cuts are a fact of life these days for most school districts, and Northwestern Lehigh is no exception.
Currently 71.5 percent of the tax load is carried by the local taxpayer, with 27.8 percent...
Pennsylvania State Police inspected nearly 1,600 commercial vehicles transporting hazardous materials and issued 790 citations during a one-day enforcement effort last week, Acting Commissioner Frank ...
For senior citizens on fixed incomes, it sure is helpful to know whether they can receive federal, state and local benefit programs.
With their curiosity piqued by that very prospect, seniors came out...
Air Force Airman Joseph J. Julian Jr. graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.
The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included trainin...
Washington Township received requests for per capita tax exonerations from the year 2010. At the April 5 meeting chairman Josh Friebolin said it had been the policy to exonerate those who applied in t...
The Lehighton Band's Spring Concert will be held Sunday, April 10, in the auditorium of the Lehighton Area Middle School beginning at 2:30 p.m.
The director of the band, Paul R. Smith, has announced t...
In the mood to work up a sweat for a good cause?
If so, then plan to participate in the 10th annual Blue Mountain Health System 5K Road Race-Walk, 1-Mile Walk & Kids Fun Run on Saturday, May 7.Present...
The Tamaqua Art Gallery is sponsoring a trip to the Philadelphia Museum of Art on May 21. Participants will be viewing a specialexhibit,"Paris Through the Window," created by Marc Chagall and his circ...
Injured parties in two separate automobile accidents were awarded damages by juries following trials in Schuylkill County court this week, but not the amounts sought.
Nicole Roberts, Coatesville, rece...
Just before 6 a.m. today, state police at Frackville and emergency responders from Delano, Hometown, Ryan Township and others responded to a rollover with entrapment accident on Orchard Road near the ...