Rush Township's 2013 reorganizational meeting held Monday, welcomed all things new, including a new board majority, administrative staff, solicitor, engineer, road department foreman, secretary/treasu...
The Carbon County Department of Solid Waste will again host the Outdated Telephone Directory Recycling Program, also known as the Phone Book Recycling Program, from Feb. 1 through Feb. 22.
Since 1996,...
Washington Township supervisors held a reorganizational meeting Monday, re-electing Josh Friebolin as Chairman and Roy Dengler as vice-chairman. Gerald Phillips, who is also employed by the township a...
All were tangy, most were mild, and a few were somewhat on the spicy side.
Aside from their delicious taste, the common denominator behind the recent Chili Cookoff held at the First United Church of C...
This baby chick just hatched on Tuesday at the 2013 PA Farm Show in Harrisburg. Special incubators were set up for many eggs to hatch and then the couple day old chicks were put into another incubator...
One of the most historic churches in Tamaqua has been retrofitted with a state-of-the-art elevator, and the pastor says it's a blessing that couldn't have come at a better time.
As with most churches,...
Trinity happenings
Trinity Lutheran Church, 175 S. Third St., Lehighton, will hold "Baptism of our Lord" Sunday services, at 9 a.m., with Holy Communion. The format is contemporary worship featuring t...
Lansford Council wants to find out exactly why a Montgomery County accounting firm walked out in the midst of performing the borough's 2011 audit.
With only council President Rose Mary Cannon and Mary...
After deliberating for about an hour and 15 minutes on Wednesday afternoon, a Carbon County jury panel found a county man not guilty of two of the most serious drug charges filed against him.
The pane...