JIM:
Home ownership, until 2008, was a big part of the American Dream. After World War II, Levittowns sprang up across the country, including right here in Eastern Pennsylvania. When my wife and I got...
Dear Editor:
In the heart of Nesquehoning, at 90 E. Catawissa Street, sits the old high school. It's been renovated into a senior apartment building, but there's more to this place that meets the eye....
The staff at the Bear Mountain Butterfly Sanctuary is about to become the proud godparents of up to two dozen offspring on the endangered species list. The happy couple-or threesome … oops, it seems a...
Carbon County Animal Shelter has a new animal warden.
During the county commissioners' meeting on Thursday, the board voted to name Debbie Craver, who has been working at the shelter part-time for the...
Deeds recorded
Beaver MeadowsKayode Chidebem Adebowale to John Paul Labanosky, P.O. Box 209, Beaver Meadows, property at 104-106 Dean St., $10,000.Jim ThorpeHarvey P. Miller Jr. to Harvey P. Miller Jr...
The Obama Administration continued its assault on productive Americans by again raising taxes. The Administration has divided our country into two classes: those who receive government handouts and th...
O Nightie, My Nightie,
You are my friend.You cover my jiggles,You cover my rear end.From numerable washings,You are soft beyond measures,I wouldn't call you threadbare,But you can see all my treasures...
For 28 years, the late Wilbur "Cap" Bauchspies led the Lehighton Police Department as its mayor.
Yesterday, Bauchspies was given permanent identity with the department, when the police headquarters wa...
The district attorney's office of Schuylkill County has filed an objection in the county court to the petition filed by a Tamaqua couple seeking return of property seized by police under a search warr...
Dear Editor:
To the Carbon County CommissionersLI am fully aware that the PennDOT center on Route 443 in Mahoning Township is a state agency, not a county responsibility. Nonetheless, I am writing to ...