Prior to the start of the No. 9 Mine and Museum Miner's Picnic held recently, volunteers and local and state officials were on hand during the mine's Annual Miners Memorial Ceremony held outside the m...
Children are welcome to attend Vacation Bible School at Grace-St. Paul's UMC, Monday-Friday, June 18-22, from 6-8 p.m., and experience this fun, hands-on Bible-Times event.
This year the VBS will be v...
Members of Cindy Miller's 5th grade art class spent time painting the glass walls of the Tamaqua Elementary School. From back left are Kailyn Erbe, Lizzie Wagner, Sabrina Moyer and Kayla Sherry. From ...
It's all about the numbers.
At least, that's what members of the Palmerton Area High School Class of 2012 were told as they celebrated the 104th annual commencement exercises.Flanked by family and fri...
Just when you think a couple of players are really turning the corner and showing signs of the player they will become it is suddenly put on hold.
That is what happened to IronPig outfielder Derrick M...
A Mauch Chunk boy who was stricken with infantile paralysis at the age of nine months and was benefited by the services of Dr. Bruce Gill, has been discharged from the crippled children's clinic. He i...
Unless they experience it firsthand, one can never fully realize the magnitude of the wretched disease that is cancer.
But, that doesn't mean they couldn't attempt to walk a mile in their shoes, as ma...
Mountain Karate Academy of Lehighton participated in a once in a lifetime event this month.
Master Kovaleski's USA Karate, in Dickson City, sponsored a visit with the Grandmasters of Tang Soo Do. The ...
S.S. Palmer High School Class of 1957 hosts its 55-year reunion Saturday, June 9 at the Blue Ridge Country Club. A social hour with cash bar will begin at 4 p.m., followed by a group photo, and a fami...
With the presidential election five months away, about the only thing consistent with the Obama campaign has been the flow of bad news almost daily on just about every front.
The last week has been a ...