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The Summit Hill Fire Department has reactivated a device which many communities have eliminated: a fire siren. The “fire ...
Lehighton Area School District’s board of directors voted to amend Superintendent Jason Moser’s contract Monday, granting ...
The U.S. Postal Service is excited to announce the Stamp Encore Contest. To celebrate its 250th anniversary and gear up to ...
The members of the Lehighton Borough Council decided to move forward with the Local Economic Revitalization Tax Assistance ...
Getting close to a gyrfalcon, a Harris hawk and a great horned owl is not a normal summer activity. Unless you’re ...
It was a perfect night to grab a blanket or a chair and hear some bluegrass music at Chestnuthill Park’s summer concert ...
Live generously. Those are the words on a T-shirt Paula Bond wears when she helps distribute meals at Zion Lutheran Church in ...
Stephen Haupt didn’t set out to become a kickball commissioner. But when the Lehighton Adult Kickball League faced an ...
The Carbon County Commissioners approved or acknowledged the following personnel items during their meeting last week. • Retirement: Jane A. Krebs of Jim Thorpe, voter registration specialist, ...
Carbon County is trying to work out details on a program that aims to help children in school after the commissioners voted down the proposal last month. On Thursday, Commissioners’ Chairman Mike ...
The Lansford Civil Service Commission will be asking borough council to update the ordinance regarding police testing standards. The fledgling commission met Monday morning to discuss the testing ...
State police at the Belfast barracks reported the following crashes: • Two motorcyclists, including a Walnutport man, were injured in a crash at 9:03 p.m. July 2 on Interstate 78 in Lower Saucon ...