The Allentown Catholic Diocese continues to ponder whether it should consolidate several of its schools after citing diminished enrollment.
Currently, the Diocese is contemplating if it should combine...
Lehigh Carbon Community College will offer a variety of noncredit language courses this semester. These noncredit language offerings include Spanish I and Conversational Spanish. For higher levels of ...
First you get a whiff of the amazing aroma wafting down the street. But when you open the door to Gracie's Main Street Bakery, you know you opened the door to a little bit of heaven.
Inside awaiting c...
Darlene Hyde of Brodheadsville read an article in The Decorative Painter inviting members of the Society of Decorative Painters (SDP) to paint an ornament. There would be 500 chosen to decorate a holi...
Every year most people rush about, keeping hectic schedules while trying to get ready for Christmas.
I always found that everyday life is busy enough. There is seldom time to get everything done. Then...
Ever since head coach Shawn Hindy took over the Lehighton field hockey program four years ago, the Lady Indians have had one goal in mind a state championship.
2006, 2007 and 2008 weren't too kind to ...
December 26, 1979 Cindy Miller scores a team-high 17 points and Tamaqua reaches the final of the PV-Tamaqua Officials Basketball Tournament with a convincing 66-43 victory over Jim Thorpe. Miller fini...
Carbon County is providing a Lehighton-based company with tax relief on a Palmerton plant that it hopes to convert into a 100-plus-acre high tech office park.
During the county commissioners' meeting ...
I just turned 42 this week, young for some of my readers and old for others I suppose (or secretly hope). My birthday was actually Christmas Eve. The first question that brings to mind when people tur...
By JIM ZBICK
jzbick@tnonline.comTwo days before Christmas in 1909 Tamaqua lost one of its most distinguished citizens in Mrs. Sarah Wolmelsdorf Souder.Sarah was a direct descendant of Conrad Weiser, t...