Senior members of this year's Tamaqua Area High School cross country program were honored at the booster club banquet. From left are Blue Raiders head coach Tom Kanger, seniors Ricky Clemson, Brandon ...
Proposed action by the Schuylkill County Commissioners to create three new management jobs was criticized by a union official who represents certain county employees as the proposal came at a time whe...
Longhi Financial of Hometown hosted a public Social Security seminar at the LCCC Morgan's campus in Tamaqua on Monday, Nov. 16.
Various speakers talked about Social Security retirement benefits and fi...
Jim Thorpe Borough Council members came together Wednesday night for a special budget workshop to try to pull a $3.6 million budget into balance without having to ask residents for more in taxes next ...
Borough personnel and emergency responders in Tamaqua will be getting an extremely useful tool in their arsenal to aid with borough-wide communication.
"If you're under a water-boil advisory, announci...
The senior graduation project of two Jim Thorpe Area High School students, with the participation of Kindergarten through Third Grade students from the L.B. Morris Elementary School in Jim Thorpe, has...
Thanksgiving dinner
The Tamaqua Salvation Army will offer a free Thanksgiving dinner to all interested local residents. Dinner will be served, Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 26, from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. at the com...
Sometimes all one can ask for is a second chance.
Fortunately for the Panther Valley football team, it will have a shot at redemption in its biggest game of the year.The fourth-seeded Panthers and the...
There is no change in the plans of the Schuylkill County Prison Board to proceed with construction of a prerelease center near the state prison facility in Ryan Township.
At the monthly meeting of the...
The efforts of a number of school districts to increase property assessments has realized an increase of $19,97,335 over the current year, according to a report released by Virginia D. Murray, chief S...