A man, arrested after a cyber tip led state police to a Lansford home, was sentenced Tuesday to 16 months to four years in state prison. Cody Girard Broad, 32, of Lansford, pleaded guilty on July 21 ...

The Concourse Club of Palmerton is holding the first open meeting of their club year at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Aquashicola Volunteer Fire Company, 270 Little Gap Road, Palmerton. The program will ...

St. John Lutheran Church, 200 E. Mauch Chunk St., Tamaqua, is holding a pumpkin roll sale for Thanksgiving. Deadline to order is Nov. 8. Pick up is Nov. 22 between 3 and 5 p.m. For more information ...

The Carbon Career & Technical Institute is on a two-hour delay today due to the Route 209 road closure. The highway is expected to remain closed for the next six to eight weeks, and students ...

Reading & Northern has temporarily moved its Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway operation to Nesquehoning due to the rock slide on Route 209 that impacted the railroad west of Jim Thorpe. Trains ...

In two days, residents can finally open their mailboxes without a flood of political flyers tumbling out. The television ads will give way to Medicare pitches and Christmas toy commercials. But ...

St John’s Orthodox Church, Nesquehoning, is serving a pork and sauerkraut dinner on Election Day from 11:30-2:30. The dinner is take out or dine in and includes 8 ounces of pork, sauerkraut, homemade ...

Tamaqua’s annual Veterans Day parade will be hosted by the American Legion Post 173 beginning at 10 a.m. on Saturday. All are encouraged to attend and honor our veterans. Staging will be at 9 a.m. by ...

A special presentation was made recently to honor veterans at Brookmont Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in Effort. Members of the Pocono Mountain Chapter 88526 Quilts of Valor presented quilts ...

Author Lori Floyd of Weatherly has released her third children’s picture book. “The Adventures of the Explorers’ Club in Delaware” is the third book in the series for young explorers emphasizing fun, ...

Some are made with bits of colored paper. Others include magazine cutouts or photographs spliced between a found object here, and another there. Each one on exhibit at Stonehedge Gardens in South ...

Weatherly Borough Council moved closer to demolishing the annex to the Mrs. C.M. Schwab School, authorizing the borough manager to bid and award a contract. Borough Manager Tracy Grover explained ...