Thrift store not accepting donations
Due to limited storage space, The Trinity Thrift Store, 175 S. Third St., Lehighton, cannot accept donations until Tuesday, Feb. 16. Donations will only be accepte...
8TH GRADE
St. Joseph's-OLOAASt. Joe's topped Our Lady of Angels Academy on Dec. 1, winning 39-16.Gabby Green led the team with 14 points. Emily Sofranko added 11.St. Joseph's-Mahanoy CityEmily Sofrank...
January 19, 1971 Brian Metzger scores a game-high 25 points and pulls down 10 rebounds to help lead Lehighton to a 68-59 Lehigh Valley League win over Stroudsburg. Metzger tallies 10 points in the fir...
Jim Thorpe police reported investigating a rear-end type crash on Monday, Jan. 18, about 1:45 p.m. along SR209 on the inner borough bridge.
Police said a vehicle operated by Amanda Petaccio, of Albrig...
Jodi L. Kamant, a 2005 graduate of Tamaqua Area High School, recently graduated from Kutztown University on Dec. 19, 2009.
She student taught the fall semester in the Hamburg and Schuylkill Haven Area...
Deeds recorded
Banks TownshipAlvin Luckanavage to Kyle A. Luckanavage, 55 E. Maple St., Tresckow, property at 55 E. Maple St., $60,000.East Penn TownshipGary R. Frantz to Jose Alejandro Grajales, 791 ...
Palmerton senior pole vaulter Lanny Buck cleared 14 feet six inches over the weekend to earn the gold medal in the event at the Kutztown High School Invitational at Kutztown Universoty's Keystone fiel...
The Jim Thorpe Rotary Youth Sports Association (JTRYSA), a non-profit organization that has been sponsoring a youth soccer program for Carbon County youth since 1993, will host its third annual free w...
Smoke detectors
The Jim Thorpe Fire Department has a limited number of smoke detectors for residents of the borough. If you need a smoke detector, contact Fire Chief Bill Diehm at (570) 325-3890.Class...
A piece for the CBS Evening News on antibiotics in foods that includes footage recorded at Koch's Turkey Farm in the Lewistown Valley outside Tamaqua has had its air date postponed.
The two-part story...