Santa and Mrs. Claus visit with Sarah and Elizabeth Strohl during Polk Township’s Christmas celebration Sunday. The event included a visit the Polk Township Fire engine and the Grinch. CONTRIBUTED ...

Lehighton Borough Council took the following action recently: • Approved Utility Engineers’ substation relay replacement proposal in the amount of $135,013. • Accepted Cintas’ FR Clothing proposal in ...

West Penn Township will likely have another full-time police officer beginning in January. On Monday, supervisors voted 2-1 to move Cpl. Glenn Laninger from part-time to full-time employment with the ...

What is the Holiday House Tour? The Concourse Club of Palmerton, every couple of years, has several homes that the owners decorate beautifully for the holidays and open for ticket holders to see.

Tis the season for spreading holiday cheer. But it’s also the season when the influenza virus begins to spread. “We are certainly starting to see rises in cases of influenza as the cold and flu ...

Students in the Northern Lehigh School District will continue to be well-nourished thanks to a generous donation.

Monroe County commissioners Chairman John Christy made a point to alert the community to a recent hack involving a program that was used in the county called CodeRed. “It has been hacked,” he said.

I think I was destined to hunt. When too young for a license, I followed along when Dad hunted rabbits. At 12, I got my first ...

I have spent a good part of my life fascinated by what makes relationships work or not work between two people. We date. We get married. We get divorced. We try again. We fail again. Sometimes, we ...

Lansford Borough Council acted on the following items during its meeting this week. • Approved a heating oil quote of $2.78 a gallon for the temporary borough garage from Kattner Coal & Oil of ...

Magistrate Robert Hawke is assisted by Wayne Zellner during the swearing in of his daughter, Janet Sheats, on his 83rd ...

Joe and Debra Kay Bennett leased the former Concern building at 560 Country Club Road, Mahoning Township, to the Lehighton Cold Weather Station for a $1 through April of next year. That includes all ...