Chestnuthill Township supervisors approved the 2012 Budget and Fiscal Plan, 3-0. The good news is that the millage rate will remain at 4 mills and the budget requires tax no increase.
The General Fund...
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My wife and I recently met with our lawyer to update our wills. This, by the way, is a good idea for everyone. Remember the guy with the hit record of a graduation speech that began and ended, "W...
A true hero with a passion for hunting enjoyed some Carbon County hospitality during his quest for a white tail deer last week.
U.S. Army Sgt. Eric Edmundson of New Bern, N.C., enjoyed a full week of ...
During the Mahanoy Area 2011 football campaign Mike Gaval and Neal Goodman provided most of the offense for the Golden Bears. Gaval being the quarterback and go-to-guy and Goodman being the spark plug...
This past Wednesday was the seventieth anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Early on Sunday morning at 7:48 a.m. to be exact the first Japanese plans initiated Operation Al ...
When I attended public high school in Canada, it was expected that everyone in an academic or science curriculum would learn Latin.
As could be expected, we students hated the thought of another langu...
For years I've pondered a mystery that plagues me more as each year passes: Why does time fly by faster when we're older?
Common sense tells us it doesn't. Everyone gets the same 24 hours in a day, re...
After years of planning, investigating, and studying as many as five different sites, ground was officially broken on a 180-acre site on the Broad Mountain in Nesquehoning this afternoon for Carbon Co...
Thanks to surveillance pictures taken by Wal-Mart and tips from concerned citizens, Franklin Kunkel III, 21, of Quakake, a parolee, is behind bars, suspected of stealing almost $8,000 worth of portabl...