Following awards presentations at the recent 21st annual Chris and Kevin Truskey Memorial Run and Walk, family and friends presented Wayne and Pat Truskey with a personalized quilt containing all 20 T...
I would like to begin by wishing everyone a happy and hopefully rainless Labor Day weekend. It is hard to believe how crazy the summer has been with regards to weather. The unofficial American start t...
Dear Editor:
Read it and weep: Jobs - Jobs - Jobs - gone forever. What right to work? I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand, that the world owes no man a living, but that it owe...
Reportedly a rarity, if not a first, is a brother/sister, Josiah Behrens IV and his sisterJordan, playing drums togetherat the same time in the Jim Thorpe Area High School Band.
VICTOR IZZO/SPECIALTO ...
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation announced today a construction project to replace the structurally deficient PA 309 Bridge over the Little Schuylkill River in Tamaqua will begin Septembe...
Carbon County will soon be in need of a new animal warden.
During the county commissioners' meeting on Thursday, the board voted to accept the retirement date of Bruce W. May of Jim Thorpe, the curren...
When I get company to my Florida home, I sometimes take them to a remote island restaurant accessible only by the boat.
To tell the truth, the restaurant's food is only OK, nothing to write home about...
By BOB URBAN
rurban@tnonline.comThe more things change, the more they stay the same.Currently we are a nation that is not very happy with our government. Taxes are too high. The economy is in the dump...
Carl S. Burghart, 58, of 379 South 8th St., Lehighton was cited for violating Borough Ordinance 85-8 that dogs shall not be allowed to defecate on any public or private property. The incident occurred...
Property transfers recorded at the Schuylkill County Courthouse were as follows:
Tax Claim Bureau to Apartments and Acquisition, a limited partnership, Allentown, property at 1209 Walnut Street, Ashla...