Senior citizens who reside in Lower Towamensing Township will see a discount in their garbage rates in 2013.
By a unanimous vote, the township's board of supervisors agreed on Tuesday to adopt a garba...
Tamaqua Area School Board member Larry Neff blasted the PIAA for what he termed charging excessive game rights for the state championship games. Neff said there has been a lot of comment as to why the...
Those who don't want to be alone on Christmas or cook for just one or two people, are invited to Emmanuel
U.C.C., 509 Hamilton St., Bowmanstown, for Christmas dinner.Dinner will be served from 3-...
December 13, 1979 Palmerton, with the help of four pins, defeats East Stroudsburg for the first-time ever on the mats. The Blue Bombers receive falls from Bill Irving (98 pounds), Jan Smida (105), Mik...
The buzz surrounding the Colonial League matchup between Northern Lehigh and Saucon Valley was undeniable. The stage was set for Northern Lehigh to show that it was ready to compete with one of the to...
The Schuylkill County Prison Board held its final quarterly meeting of the year in the library at the county prison, located across the street from the county courthouse in Pottsville, on Wednesday.
S...
The contract to build the Mahoning Township's equipment garage is halfway through and due to expire in early January, but Penn State Construction of Lewistown only began digging post holes in the last...
Lansford police responded to a motor vehicle crash involving two vehicles at 1:30 p.m. Dec. 10 at the intersection of Patterson and Springgarden streets.
A witness to the incident observed a vehicle b...
Several months after it was exhumed, the contents from inside Palmerton's Centennial Time Capsule have been revealed.
Members of the Palmerton Area Chamber of Commerce were clued in on Tuesday as to w...
Eldred Township residents should not see a tax increase in 2013.
During the recent Eldred Township Supervisor meeting, supervisor/secretary Sharon Solt asked the board of supervisors to advertise a me...