By jim zbick
jzbick@tnonline.com"The rowdy is always and ever with us, wherever we happen to live."That was the sober assessment of a Tamaqua Courier a century ago after a series of ugly early-summer ...
The name across Tyler Svetik's jersey reads Coplay but on Friday night you couldn't blame the right-handed hurler if he was thinking about a different team.
Pitching against Northern Valley, a club ma...
Dear Editor:
Recently there appeared an editorial by Mr. Zbick concerning the lack of knowledge displayed by our school children when it comes to the history of our nation. I would venture to say that...
Jordan Kennedy, 13, of Tamaqua shows off a hanging form of "parkour" at the South Ward Playground. Parkour is becoming more common among youth. Normal parkour involves running, climbing and jumping al...
Earl Beers attended the July 7 meeting of the Towamensing Township supervisors to ask about "No Trespassing" signs at the recreation property, which is public land.
Supervisor Penny Kleintop said the ...
After winning the first game in the best-of-three District 18 9-10 Little League Championship Series Thursday night, Tamaqua Blue knew what it had to do in Friday night's second game.
With its job lai...
Some men find it easy to "power up" to successfully climb the corporate ladder. But when it's time to leave the job and begin retirement, some find it hard to power down.
That aptly applies to my frie...
A meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. Monday, July 11, on the new Lions Club is forming in the Carbon County area.
The meeting, a covered dish event, will be at 576 Main Road, Lehighton.For additional i...
It's one of those quotations that's so dead-on no one disputes it, like Ralph Waldo Emerson's observation, "Knowledge is the antidote to fear."
Almost 400 years ago, the English philosopher Francis Ba...
As I sat at my parent's house on the Fourth of July during our family's picnic watching my daughter Kathryn and my nephew Evan play "Hide and Seek", I thought about how far I have come from my own chi...