After an incredible amount of arm-twisting and wooing surrounding the congressmen in Washington this week, much of it by the president himself, it appears that health care reform or Obamacare as some ...
Angela Goldberg, 18, a senior at Pleasant Valley High School, stood before the PVSD school board and gave an outstanding performance of reciting three poems out loud at the board meeting on Thursday, ...
After an incredible amount of arm-twisting and wooing surrounding the congressmen in Washington this week, much of it by the president himself, it appears that health care reform or Obamacare as some ...
March 20, 1971 John Teprovich scores a game-high 22 points, including a 10-of-12 effort at the free throw line, to help lead Marian to a 67-48 victory over Pittsburgh's St. Basil and claim the PCIAA C...
If you call the Korean War a draw, the United States has only ever lost one war of any significance: the Vietnam War.
Almost every explanation for how that occurred mentions that civil unrest kept the...
Dear Editor:
My husband and I decided to teach our children at home in 1992. At that time our oldest son was in kindergarten in Christian school. Because he was very inquisitive and very energetic, he...
Operation Touch of Home will host a Nite at the Races on Saturday, April 10. Doors open at 5 p.m. and dinner is at 5:15. Post time is 6:30 p.m.
This event funds shipping costs for "care packages" to t...
Back in the days when it was East Mauch Chunk, long before the borough merged with Mauch Chunk to become Jim Thorpe, and well before it become home to a fledgling artist population, it was home to a y...
Dear Editor:
My husband and I decided to teach our children at home in 1992. At that time our oldest son was in kindergarten in Christian school. Because he was very inquisitive and very energetic, he...
In early March 1910, Tamaqua's Bethany United Evangelical Church on East Broad Street hosted a young evangelist whom one reporter called one of the "most unique characters to ever visit the town."
Lar...