Q. What exactly degenerates when you get macular degeneration?
The macula. It is at the center of the retina in the back of your eye. The retina transmits light from the eye to the brain. The macula a...
Marie Tennant, Ms. Pennsylvania Senior America 2010, will be the guest speaker at the next Older and Bolder session at the Tamaqua Salvation Army. The session is scheduled for 10 a.m. this Wednesday, ...
Dink, a long haired Dachshund mix, retrieves a stick at McCall's farm in Mahoning Valley. Dink was rescued from Allentown and currently lives in Nesquehoning.
As some students at the Lehighton Area Middle School filled a hole with dirt to plant a weeping red bud tree, other students learned from their peers why trees are so important to the environment.
Joe...
Pictured is the Pines Motel sign which toppled onto a fence justnorth of the Ginther intersection of Rush Township following numerous daysof high winds.
Palmerton Area Historical Society's general monthly meeting will be held at 6:15 p.m. Monday, May 9. This is the annual "Mystery Trip." The group will car pool and leave from the parking lot across fr...
Bristol-Myers Squibb initiated a voluntary recall of one lot of 1,000-count bottles of Coumadin® (warfarin sodium) Crystalline 5 mg tablets. Bottles of 1,000 tablets are distributed to pharmac...
The general public is welcome at a free memory screening conducted by health care professionals to be held at Shawnee Ridge Senior Living community in Shawnee from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, May 14....
Lioness generosity
The Western Pocono Lioness Club accepted two new members recently, Joan Hoffman and MaryAnn LaLumina and also held election of officers.During the meeting reports were given on the ...
Through the efforts of a student teacher, Megan Wagner, arrangements were made to hold a fire safety program for afternoon kindergarten students at Panther Valley Elementary School. Wagner is observin...