Where were you in 1975? Many of you probably reading this were in middle or high school or some of you were wearing flannel or leisure suits, and any women reading this may have worn bell bottoms and ...

Ethan Mordaunt, a 2019 Jim Thorpe graduate, was an accomplished wrestler and football player for the Olympians. In wrestling, he won a District 11 Class 2A championship and a PIAA Southeastern ...

Beginning in the spring of 2027, the National Federation of State High School Associations will require every high school ...

Jim Thorpe and Tamaqua both won PVLL tournament games on Friday. PVLL 9-10 TOURNEY Franklin Twp.-Tamaqua Tamaqua edged Franklin Township in a wild 16-15 contest in the Panther Valley 9-10 Little ...

A fish is not a monkey.” Who would ever expect those six words written in that way to introduce a health and fitness column? Recounting someone’s ordinary words does not require quotation marks, so ...

A Tamaqua man jumped off the Cedar Street bridge and landed in the Little Schuylkill River following a fight that began around 2 a.m. June 25 at a bar in the 200 block of Cedar Street, borough police ...

Jim Thorpe Borough Council discussed the issue of lead water lines along the Center Avenue water main project. “Borough Council is going to need to make a decision on how they want to move forward ...

The newly initiated residential rental inspection process has begun in Summit Hill, and the results seem to justify the need for such a process. At Wednesday’s meeting of Summit Hill Borough Council, ...

Carbon County open space officials meet with Franklin supervisors to discuss the program. During the township supervisors’ meeting on Tuesday, Anna Shigo, Open Space coordinator for the Carbon County ...

Palmerton Area School District took a major step forward this week on a comprehensive facilities project officials say is ...

A Pennsylvania senator is looking to introduce legislation that would require vehicles to display a front license plate.

Some Schuylkill County residents are not happy with the results of the property tax reassessment process, which is expected to increase their property taxes; while others said the county should use ...