Property transfers were recently recorded at the Schuylkill County Courthouse.
They include:Sheriff Joseph G. Groody transferred a number of properties sold at a recent sheriff sale of properties whic...
Ethan Vermillion, a seventh grade student at Our Lady of the Angels Academy, Lansford, won the school-level competition of the National Geographic Bee on Monday, Jan. 11, and a chance at a $25,000 col...
A Carbon County group working to ease the plight of homeless families has been granted tax-exempt status. The 501 (c) 3 status designates Family Promise as a Public Charity.
The title means Family Pro...
A shooting incident in New Ringgold last Thursday has been ruled a murder-suicide by state police investigators.
Troopers from the Frackville barracks said Cindy L. Arndt, 50, of 416 N. Keim St., shot...
Christmas trees
The Borough of Tamaqua's Street Department will be collecting discarded Christmas trees throughout January. Residents are to place their trees curbside on their regular trash collectio...
Play tryouts
Tryouts for the Jim Thorpe Drama Club production of "West Side Story" will be held on Saturday, Jan. 30, at 1 p.m. in the high school. Parts are open to ages 13 and up. Adults are also we...
A number of drug related defendants have had their preliminary hearings before District Judge Stephen Bayer this month. Most of the defendants elected to waive their rights to such hearings, preferrin...
A shooting incident is being investigated in Schuylkill County.
State police at Frackville said an unknown person fired several shots at the mailbox of Stephen Joseph and Christopher Jamison, of 267 P...
Americans are the most generous people in the world. That's why they're often favorite targets of scam artists, especially when there's a disaster.
Right after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, there was a s...