This may be the year that the Schuylkill County Commissioners will have to dip heavily into a surplus fund, officially known as "Unrestricted Fund Balance" in order to balance the budget for 2010 and ...
Rush-Ryan seniors
The Rush, Ryan and Delano Senior Citizens Inc. met Nov. 10 at the Ryan Township Fire Company with 43 members in attendance. Chaplain Kathleen Valentine provided the invocation.Presid...
A Lehighton woman was the recipient of the highest award for leadership obtainable from the Minsi Trails Scout Council. Mrs. Warren E. Long, Second Avenue, was presented the Silver Fawn Award during t...
What a feeling it must have been for Northwestern's Lindsay Kerr last weekend.
To work day after day for years and years in hopes of becoming a state champion and then to have that dream come true is ...
A Nesquehoning teen, who was adjudicated to adult court, pleaded guilty on Thursday in Carbon County court to aggravated assault and indecent assault on a woman in a wooded area in Lansford.
Dean Tess...
Carbon County employees and tourists who use the county-owned parking lot in Jim Thorpe will soon have a new crosswalk to utilize.
During the county commissioners' meeting on Thursday, the board voted...
Four persons were injured, several seriously, in a crash along route 443 in Walker Township Thursday afternoon. The crash involved a sport utility vehicle and a tri axle dump truck. The operator of th...
Carbon County Chamber of Commerce has partnered with Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce in selecting Constellation NewEnergy as the service provider for our member-exclusive Electricity Procure...
Now that the Jim Thorpe Police Department is working out of the borough's new municipal building, police personnel are noticing that the intersection at the corner of 10th and Fern Streets is less saf...
Kathy Long, local historian, read sections of the journal of Catherine Williams, a Welsh woman and founding member of First Baptist Church of Slatington. She said it described the tribulations of brin...