Can you ever remember Easter being observed this late in the spring (April 24)? At least the odds are slim that we'll have snow falling on the Easter bonnets this year.
After learning about the five-f...
Applications are now available for season passes to the H.D. Buehler Memorial (Bungalow) Pool in Tamaqua. Opening day will be June 4, at 11:30 a.m. No season or daily passes will be available that day...
A free community dinner will take place from 4 to 6 p.m., on April 16, at Grace St. Paul's United Methodist Church, 40 Church Road, Jim Thorpe (next to the butterfly sanctuary). The dinner is open to ...
The Carbon County Area Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame will induct its 2011 class at a banquet on Sunday, May 29 at Memorial Hall in Jim Thorpe.
This will be the 18th class to be induc...
St. Joseph's Regional Academy students and the
D.A.R.E. instructors of the Jim Thorpe School District recognized two of the
D.A.R.E. program's sponsors following the annual
D.A.R.E. gra...
For a change, State Rep. Doyle Heffley was able to wear a different hat, albeit not a "Cat in the Hat".
Instead, the local legislator read another favorite book authored by iconic children's book writ...
I knew I was back in Beijing, after a few weeks of much needed vacationing at home, not by the number of Chinese people around me or the Chinese characters on every sign but by the thick cloud of smog...
A chemical that leaked from a truck at the Ametek Plant in Nesquehoning caused some anxious moments on Friday, with officials worried that a major explosion might occur.
The situation was resolved wit...
The Eastern Schuylkill Recreation Commission (ESRC) winter basketball league concluded its regular season on Wednesday evening at the Tamaqua Area Athletic Center. Ryan's Oil & Heating finished unbeat...
Air Your Opinion - "The No Bullpucky Zone" - drew WLSH listeners in for decades with lively debates about everything from school board politics to bleenie recipes. But when Mark Marek, its host of sev...