Jim Thorpe to honor Edgar Allen Poe Friday
The Friends of Historic Race Street will illuminate exquisitely-carved pumpkins at 11:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 26 to make this particular midnight not quite so dreary. As the clock in the courthouse...
View ArticleSibling fun in Kelayres
Hiding from their parents during a quick hide-and-go-seek game are Jonathan, 11; Jason, 9; and Jacinda, Webber, 6; in the brush field next to the Community Park in Kelayres.
View ArticleJim Thorpe couple wed 66 years
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Gyuricsek of Jim Thorpe are celebrating their 66th wedding anniversary today. They were married on Oct. 26, 1946 in St. John's Lutheran Church, Jim Thorpe by the late Rev....
View ArticleOn this date
An elderly Tamaqua woman was killed and two others were injured about 1:45 p.m. in a two: vehicle crash at the Ginther intersection in Rush Township. The Lehigh County coroner's office identified the...
View ArticleBirth: Ryan
A son, Mathew Wayne Ryan Jr. was born at 6:12 a.m. on Oct. 13, 2012 at Berwick Hospital Center to Tiffany Belletiere and Mathew Ryan of Tresckow. He weighed 7 pounds, 9.5 ounces and measured 20.5...
View ArticleBears earn three-peat
POCONO SUMMIT – The Pleasant Valley volleyball team was four points away from being swept out of the Mountain Valley Conference championship game Thursday night. Four points away from losing its first...
View ArticleBeware of con artists
Earlier this week, a Philadelphia man was convicted by a federal jury in Hartford, Conn. of using stolen credit cards and identity theft. What was unusual about this story is how Anthony Johnson and a...
View ArticleCarbon club cited by liquor board
A Carbon County club has been cited by the Wilkes-Barre enforcement office of the state liquor control board. Lansford AMVETS Home Association Inc., 201-203 W. Ridge St., Lansford, was cited for...
View ArticleRemaley goal lifts Indians
Creating scoring opportunities has not been a problem for Lehighton and Saucon Valley this season. Converting opportunities has been another story, however. Thursday afternoon in the quarterfinal round...
View ArticlePalmerton teacher chosen for borough council
A Palmerton Area School District educator has been chosen to fill an open seat on borough council. On a 6-0 vote Thursday, council selected Holly Sell as its choice for the vacant post. Other residents...
View ArticleBears ousted
For the majority of last night's District 11 Class AAA girls' soccer game between Pleasant Valley and host Whitehall, the Lady Zephyrs held a comfortable 2-0 lead that seemed to relax everyone into...
View ArticleDeer and van collide
A deer and a van collided along a Schuylkill County road on Thursday morning, Oct. 25. State police at Schuylkill Haven said David W. Selsman, 43, of New Ringgold, was operating a 2006 Dodge Caravan...
View ArticleRoute 903 bridge replacement
The proposed State Route 903 bridge replacement project in Jim Thorpe is moving forward. During a meeting of the consulting parties for the project on Thursday morning, representatives from PennDOT,...
View ArticleTrees for Troops program kicks off in Carbon
Yenser's Tree Farm in Lehighton and several other local Christmas tree farms in Carbon County are donating real Christmas Trees as part of the nationwide Trees for Troops program sponsored by the...
View ArticleElisa DelGreco is 103
With a smile and a puff of breath, Elisa DelGreco blew out the candles on her birthday cake. But this wasn't just any cake: It was a celebration of her 103rd birthday. The oldest child of the late...
View ArticleEldred column
Trick or Treat night Eldred Township's Trick or Treat night is Wednesday, Oct. 31 from 5-8 p.m. If you would like to participate, please have your porch lights turned on. Mrs. Bush's Mrs. Bush's...
View ArticleMarriage licenses
Laurie L. Walton, 43 Ryan Ave., Tamaqua, and Nathan W. Oldt, 231 Market St., Tamaqua. Jolene M. Zelinsky and Frank J. DiMarco, 240 Whitetail Crossing Road, Tamaqua. Janine M. Moran and Scott D....
View ArticleNamed Distinguished Alden Scholar
Rosey Sheridan, a sophomore at Allegheny College and the 2011 salutatorian of Marian High School, was recently named a Distinguished Alden Scholar at the college for the 2011-2012 academic year. She is...
View ArticleSledgehammers issue triggers heated debate
Dissension between the police chief, members of council and the mayor reared its ugly head once again during the Nesquehoning Borough Council meeting Wednesday night, when Mayor Tony Walck corrected a...
View ArticleMarriage licenses
Kevin Daniel Heilman, 168 Mahoning Drive East, Lehighton, and Jenelle Lynn Fronheiser, 252 N. Fourth St., Apt. 2, Lehighton. Nathan Robert Ledford and Summer Rene Reed, 18 Blue Mountain View,...
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