PPL Electric Utilities advises customers who need help paying their utility bills to check for their eligibility for cash grants under the federally funded Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
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Children with the Child Development, Tamaqua Center, helped residents and staff of the Tamaqua Area Adult Day Care Center prepare Thanksgiving treats. In addition to helping prepare pumpkin dip, the c...
Tamaqua borough worker Matt Mateyak places a ribbon and wreath atop one of the lamp posts at the Depot Square Park in Tamaqua in preperation for the holiday season.
Dewey got a facelift.
It went from school bus yellow to Pleasant Valley Blue and White.Dewey is Pleasant Valley School District's Book Mobile.The 1985 Chevrolet mini bus was donated by First Student T...
Members of the Eldred Township Veterans Commission conducted a Veterans Day ceremony at the site of the Veterans Memorial at the township municipal building on Veterans Day. They read poems, history a...
Seventeen years ago, David Henritzy and Dr. Randy Nolf, both lifelong residents of Carbon County, founded a company they called Bio-Haz Solutions Inc.
"We started with zero customers, zero employees,"...
A Jim Thorpe woman, serving as a school teacher in the Middle East country of Qatar, was allegedly murdered by a security guard.
Jennifer Brown, 40, who formerly taught in St. Joseph's Regional Academ...
Induction of the 2012 Schuylkill County Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame will take place during halftime of the SCFCA All-Star Game tonight at 7 p.m at Rotary Field, Schuylkill Haven.
Inducte...
To make up for school days lost due to Hurricane Sandy, Tamaqua School District students will be in school Jan. 21, Martin Luther King Day, and Feb. 18, President's Day, directors decided during a mee...
Purnell Avenue, near Hometown Avenue, in Hometown is closed as contractors replace old sanitary sewer lines. The township states that sewer line replacement project, which is expected to last until th...