The incongruity kept me watching.
Sometime in the 1980s, I was channel surfing after a hard Saturday workout when I saw the angst-filled alternative rock band
R.E.M. performing a rather solemn so...
As I pass the display of Mother's Day cards in the store, I try not to look, not to get caught up in the sadness of not being able to buy a card for my mother.
It's been a bit more than five years sin...
It was just another Monday morning as I rode Line 2 toward Fuchengmen, the closest subway station to my Beijing office. I had just missed the morning rush and a few empty seats near the end of the ben...
For those looking to avoid the high price of gasoline without eliminating a family vacation this summer, two of the area's state parks - Locust Lake in Schuylkill County and Hickory Run in Carbon Coun...
Children from the Sunday school class of St. Paul Lutheran Church, Summit Hill, presented a musical performance during the Easter worship service. The chldren sang two songs, "He is Lord," accompanied...
Carbon County Action Committee for Human Services offers elderly home help program. The program provides in-home assistance to income eligible Carbon County residents (aged 60 and older) who are disab...
The Tamaqua softball team may have been a little short-handed in its non-league contest with Lehighton, but the Indians didn't care.
After all, a win is a win.Lehighton picked up arguably its biggest ...
After back-to-back rainouts, the third time turned out to be the charm in kicking off the 2011 season at Lehighton's Mahoning Valley Speedway as a full pit area and a respectable sized grandstand of f...
The Carbon County commissioners recognize the importance of quality hospitals and nurses.
That's why, on Thursday, the board adopted two proclamations in honor of National Hospital Week and National N...
Rory Koons remembers very vividly that spring day in 1986. Unlike this spring when hardly a day went by without rain, the April 25 years ago was very dry. Brush fires were breaking out everywhere.
The...