I was sitting in a hostel café in south China's Yunnan Province enjoying a late breakfast with my Chinese-German girlfriend, Layla, when I heard the news: Osama bin Laden had been killed. I'd been eav...
Years ago, a teacher I didn't know very well entered my classroom after school. He told me because he was overweight and out of shape, he had recently purchased a bicycle and wanted to ask me a few qu...
Carbon County voters will participate in statewide balloting for two appellate court positions on Tuesday, May 17.
The electorate will determine Democratic and Republican nominations for seats on the ...
Students at Panther Valley High School are discovering art in unfamiliar words, thanks to an artist-in-residence grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts...
There's a town in Connecticut called Shelton and in this town there is a high school. In the high school is a senior named James Tate. James, being a romantic, wanted to ask a girl to the prom. His fr...
In the May 11, TIMES NEWS it was reported that the Slatington borough replaced laterals in the driveway of Chad Trego. This is incorrect. Ronca laid new macadam on the entranceway to Trego's driveway ...
More than 1,000 Carbon County residents were removed from the official voter registration list when the county's election board certified the voting totals during a recent meeting.
Officially, there a...
After more than 30 years of inspections and 10 years of talks between the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) and Tamaqua officials, a full drainage and drawdown of the Upper O...
Tamaqua Area School District faces a budget deficit of about $2.4 million for the 2011-2012 fiscal year.
As a result, numerous spending cuts are being proposed, which are expected to be discussed with...
The Community Fire Company of New Ringgold was called to a wilderness rescue Friday morning to aid an elderly man who suffering a leg injury along the Cold Run Creek, about a half mile north of the vi...