Coaldale News

The Panther Valley School Board approved Adam Webber's request Tuesday to extend the KOEZ status of the old Panther Valley Middle School property with a vote of 5-3. Director Anthony DeMarco was not present at the special meeting.

The Tamaqua Community Ambulance Association wants to be sure that the residents of the area know they will continue to provide their services, despite recent announcements by St.

A Bucks County man who owns rental properties in Coaldale claimed at a public borough council meeting this week that the borough's landlord ordinance is discriminatory because it fails to hold government owned subsidized housing units and owner-occupied homes to the same rules governing permit fees and inspections as privately-owned rental units.

Members of Coaldale's Borough Council plan to visit Tamaqua Borough Council's June 16 public meeting to see what they can do to keep St.

A man will spend at least 11 months behind bars for pushing his friend into a deep coal pit and then waiting an hour before calling 911.

People in one part of Schuylkill County gathered the Sunday before Memorial Day to honor local soldiers and their families who sacrificed so much for our country.

CHRIS PARKER/TIMES NEWS Master of ceremonies William Gaddes speaks at Coaldale's Memorial Day services.

Richard D. George, 24, of Tamaqua, was sentenced Thursday in Schuylkill County Court to serve 11 to 22 months in the county prison in Pottsville on charges relating to him pushing a Tamaqua man into the 700-foot-deep pit of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company last August in Coaldale.

Tamaqua's annual Memorial Day Parade and service will feature a father and son combination.

Kite Party, the young band that will release the EP "Wish Mountain" on May 26, might be based in Philadelphia, but its coal-country roots run deep.

The driver and passenger of this motorcycle were killed after crashing on Route 209 in Schuylkill County Sunday night around 9:45 p.m. The accident happened in Schuylkill Township about a quarter-mile east of Tuscarora.

BOB FORD/TIMES NEWS Peggy Hausman of Jim Thorpe shows a frame holding a photo of her step-grandson and a poem in front of a wall of photos of all of her grandchildren in her home.

Authorities say a two-year-old boy died after being found face down in an inflatable pool at a home in eastern Pennsylvania.

A 2-year-old Coaldale boy was pronounced death early today after being found unresponsive in a pool in Jim Thorpe on Saturday.

Blue Mountain Health System announced today it plans to close the maternity unit at its Gnaden Huetten campus in Lehighton effective June 30, leaving women in Carbon County a drive of up to 30 miles to deliver a baby.

Jeff Frable was a latecomer to the former J.E. Morgan Knitting Mills near Tamaqua.

Schuylkill County , where by far the largest number of Catholic churches were closed when the Allentown Diocese restructured this summer, will let local municipalities and school boards decide whether to try and tax buildings no longer used for worship.

DONALD R. SERFASS/TIMES NEWS Stanley Costello, 90, plays "Happy Birthday To You" on the violin to help John Dalton celebrate his natal day on Friday.

RON GOWER/TIMES NEWS Smoke belches from the basement at the home of Michael Kirkpatrick, 305 N. Spruce St., Summit Hill, yesterday afternoon, as firefighters prepare to enter the burning structure.

REID A son, Alexander Matthew Reid, was born to Luke and Lora Reid of Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, on Jan.