The Carbon County Senior Games has helped keep area seniors young at heart for the last 23 years.
Each year, nearly 200 men and women from five county senior centers come out to throw, shoot, swim, da...
Dear Editor:
Now that One World Trade Center is nearing completion (and is now the tallest building in New York City), this would appear to be the time for so-inclined Americans to contribute to a fun...
Some of Linda's Purse facts:
*Purse Fact #1-Sometimes you CAN have a purse that's too big.How do you know when your purse is too big? When you can't find your cell phone.This is no lie. Last night I l...
Last week I wrote up the famous Oracle of Delphi in Greece and ended my column with a little quiz regarding different methods for making predictions and asked you to match them with the explanation of...
A Carbon County commissioner recently defended his position on the National Defense Authorization Act.
During the guest portion of the county commissioners' meeting on Thursday, Valerie Norato of Penn...
By Jim Zbick
jzbick@tnonline.com"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," said classical philosopher and poet George Santayana.A simple paraphrase of this quote is that history ...
Adam D. Reichard, son of Duane and Pati Reichard of Lehighton, and a member of Boy Scout Troop 82, Lehighton, has achieved the rank of Eagle Scout.
Adam's Eagle project involved restoring a staircase ...
Dear Editor:
In response to, "Shame, shame, shame."What health issue is being undermined by not mandating health insurance providers to cover the cost of contraception? Prevention of pregnancy is not ...
If you watched the news recently, you probably noticed that some government employees have been pushing for some very radical regulations. A few weeks ago, the Labor Department attempted to prevent ch...
I was blessed with good health all my life until a medical emergency put me in the hospital for over a week, recently. It's the first time in my 61 years I had ever lain in a hospital bed.
Fortunately...