By RON GOWER
rgower@tnonline.comOver my 40-plus years of being a reporter, I've worked with some very good community leaders. Among them were Lehighton Borough Manager Mortimer Smedley and Lehighton C...
The 91st annual West End Fair along Route 209 in Gilbert, Monroe County, begins its week-long run tomorrow.
Gates open at 10 a.m. Sunday with a special reduced rate. The fair will open at noon on Mond...
Dear Editor:
When you're driving on a country roadAnd may be running latePlease remember it's a country roadAnd not an interstate.When folks who live near country roadsAre working on the grassOr trimm...
Panther Valley School District is looking into outsourcing its custodians and secretaries.
The school board on Thursday unanimously agreed to direct Business Manager Kenneth Marx to explore the outsou...
Well the world didn't end two weeks ago during a late night tsunami. California is still in one piece as is Australia which just goes to show that even psychics make mistakes.
Of course, the back peda...
Crime flourishes during desperate economic times.
A century ago, the crimes mirrored what we're seeing in our society today.In one front page during late July of 1912, the Mauch Chunk Daily Times repo...
Shoemaker-Haydt American Legion, Lehighton Post 314, honored youths who represented Post 314 at youth events in Spring 2012. Taking part in State Police Youth Week at York College were Joseph C. Oriel...
For some reason I noticed more careless drivers this summer. I also noticed an increase in angry drivers who have that nasty disease called road rage. When driving on the Interstate highway, cars are ...
With President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden barnstorming all over the country on the campaign trail, don't you wonder who's running the country while they're out trying to get re-elected? If you...
A Tamaqua man who was a passenger in a vehicle was injured in a two-vehicle crash in Schuylkill County on Saturday. State police at Schuylkill Haven said the accident occurred about 4:50 p.m. along SR...