A Tamaqua native has been named by Pope Paul to the Sacred Rota, the Vatican's court announced. Most Rev. Thomas M. Mundy, 53, of the Philadelphia Archdiocese, is a professor at St. Charles Boromeo Se...
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On July 11, the Nesquehoning Veterans of Foreign Wars held their annual eight week blood drive. At this time, I would like to thank everyone who came out to donate blood in my honor.I hav...
EDITORS NOTE: This is the second of a two-part series on Hunting the West. This week's story features the topics: Equipment for a Western Hunt and Doing It Yourself on a Shoestring Budget.
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Cindy Nanovic forwarded us this article about the anniversary of Mauch Chunk Lake.I then forwarded on to my brothers and sister.Mother (Agnes McCartney) loved her Carbon County and all of...
If, for no other reason other than it will be a good conversation piece, I'm leaving the photograph of my wife, myself and Joe Paterno on the wall of my office. The photo of the youthful Paterno was t...
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It's called Moral Turpitude. Or, in this case, Institutional Moral Turpitude. From top to bottom, from Penn State's president to its locker-room janitors and all those in between - includ...
"We're having a heat wave, a tropical heat wave, the temperature's rising, it isn't surprising ..."
It's a little warm these days. And nights. The temperatures reached 90 degrees and above every day i...
MILROY The wait was worth it for Franklin Township.
Franklin's opening game in the Pennsylvania State 13-14 year-old Babe Ruth Tournament took more than 24 hours to complete. But it wasn't complaining...
When the topic turns to food, the objective is often simple: to cite studies (and possibly personal experience) to get you to consume less of something.
A column printed nearly 12 years ago, for examp...
Yes, Pennsylvania, like all other States of the Union and the United States of America, is, as a matter of constitutional law, a "Right-to-Work State." It always has been and always shall be so. No le...