March 11, 1940 Mauch Chunk Catholic captures the Anthracite Catholic Basketball League championship when Ashland Catholic refuses to play the deciding game of their three-game playoff series. The two ...
An independent auditor's report for the Tamaqua Area School District's 2008-09 fiscal year has reflected favorably on the district.
Connie Ligenza, the district's business manager, summarized the resu...
A strike, a spare or a miss, it all totaled up to some serious scoring competition and lots of fun for the Carbon County Special Olympics.
Fifty-two members ages 8 - 66 years old were registered parti...
Tom Dougherty, councilman in Mauch Chunk and gas fitter for the P. P. and L. Company, saved the life of Joseph Schaff and forgot about it, but the Lehigh Valley Safety Council, which is engaged in the...
Nine local TIMES NEWS Area players were recently selected as members of either the 2009-2010 Colonial League Boys' and Girls' Basketball All-Star Teams.
Northern Lehigh's Jordan Waylen, Aimee Oertner ...
East Carbon County Democratic Club will meet Tuesday, March 16 at 7 p.m. at the Penn Kidder Campus School. All five candidates seeking to replace Keith McCall In the Pennsylvania 122ND district of the...
Panther Valley graduates Marques Middleton and Bejtullah Mehmeti are both members of the Penn State University-Wilkes Barre campus men's basketball team that recently participated in the United States...
A local animal rescue advocate says Carbon County needs an animal cruelty officer.
During the county commissioners' meeting on Thursday, Donna Crum, coordinator for the Carbon County Animal Response T...
Angela Krapf saw close up and personal how dangerous her husband's job can be. Not that she wasn't aware of the dangers in the past. It's just that the risks of the profession were recently brought ho...
The Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency has advice for residents in case of flooding.
"Whenever flooding is a possibility, residents of flood-prone areas should move valuables from lower levels o...