The Panther Valley School Board on Thursday approved a $24,758,462 preliminary budget that calls for property tax rates to increase by 2.04 mills in the Carbon County side of the district, and by 1.67...
Members of the Gabriel Chamber Ensemble, staged out of New Ringgold, will hold a special performance on Sunday Feb. 17 at 3 p.m. at the Jerusalem Lutheran Church, 252 Dock St., in Schuylkill Haven.
Th...
Pleasant Valley Middle School inducted 75 eighth-grade students into the Arthur A. Smith Chapter of the National Junior Honor Society (NJHS).
Loretta Snyder, NJHS co-advisor, welcomed everyone to this...
The Tamaqua Chamber of Commerce hosted their second Women In Business Luncheon (WIB) event Thursday at the La Dolce Casa Restaurant in Tamaqua. "We hold the event quarterly and encourage all business ...
January 25, 1957 Bob Mlkvy tallies a game-high 21 points to help Palmerton cruise to a 60-39 Lehigh Valley League win over Emmaus and clinch the league's first-half championship. The Blue Bombers, coa...
State police at Lehighton reported on numerous driving under the influence (DUI) arrests made by troopers recently.
About 12:20 p.m. on Jan. 15 troopers stopped Krista M. Beagell, 21, of Blakeslee, al...
The Pennsylvania Friends of Agriculture Foundation, a division of Pennsylvania Farm Bureau (PFB), spent every weekday this week bringing agriculture education to Tamaqua Elementary School.
Pennsylvani...
State Rep. Jerry Knowles (R-Berks/Schuylkill) taped his latest legislative report in January at the 97th Pa. Farm Show in Harrisburg.
In this legislative report, Knowles talks to Pennsylvania Agricult...
The Schuylkill County Volunteer Firefighters Association will meet at 2:30 p.m. this Sunday, Jan. 27. The meeting will be held at the Friendship Fire Company in Frackville.
The executive committee wil...