Hometown News

Township residents can show their support for more than 6,000 Pennsylvania National Guard troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan by leaving goods in specially marked donation boxes at the Turkey Hill Minit Market convenience store, 3051 E. High St.

The former J.E. Morgan Knitting Mills factory in Schuylkill County has been sold and will become a warehouse and distribution center for a battery manufacturer.

Racing action returns to Susquehanna Speedway Park 7 p.m. Saturday, featuring the first appearance of the SpeedSTRs.

Memorial Day is more than just another holiday in Boalsburg. The first celebration was held in 1864, when three towns women gathered in the cemetery to decorate the graves of fallen soldiers.

Hometown: Bushkill Township Experience: seven-term state representative, law practice in Nazareth , former Pen Argyl councilman Education: Villanova University School of Law Other notable: Dally's 138th District includes parts of the Slate and Cement belts and some suburban communities.

Candidates for the seat of state representative for the 124th Legislative District squared off Wednesday in a debate about taxes, health care, transportation and labor issues.

Tamaqua Area School District has started a $4.32 million energy efficiency program that will add geothermal heating and cooling to its high school, switch lights at four schools and add new heating and air conditioning controls at its buildings.

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

The Borough of Irwin Hometown Streets Committee wants some of the 30,000 drivers who travel Route 30 each day to consider shopping in Irwin.

A majority of Irwin business owners are against a proposal to reverse the one-way traffic flows on Main and Oak streets as part of a streetscape improvement program, according to a petition circulated by a former borough employee.

This week's Hometown Zip Code is 51001, which takes us to Akron, Iowa, home of The Hometowner, a newpaper the Obama administration may have to thank.

WIT Sees Record Enrollment This week's Hometown Zip Code is 51001, which takes us to Akron, Iowa, home of The Hometowner, a newpaper the Obama administration may have to thank.

This week's Hometown Zip Code is 51001, which takes us to Akron, Iowa, home of The Hometowner, a newpaper the Obama administration may have to thank.

WIT Sees Record Enrollment This week's Hometown Zip Code is 51001, which takes us to Akron, Iowa, home of The Hometowner, a newpaper the Obama administration may have to thank.

WIT Sees Record Enrollment This week's Hometown Zip Code is 51001, which takes us to Akron, Iowa, home of The Hometowner, a newpaper the Obama administration may have to thank.

WIT Sees Record Enrollment This week's Hometown Zip Code is 51001, which takes us to Akron, Iowa, home of The Hometowner, a newpaper the Obama administration may have to thank.

This week's Hometown Zip Code is 51001, which takes us to Akron, Iowa, home of The Hometowner, a newpaper the Obama administration may have to thank.

STEVE SHINKO/TIMES NEWS Specialist Ed Evans of Summit Hill, with his 3-year-old son Jacob, heads back to the rest of his family after receiving The American Soldier Defender of Freedom Certificate, an encased ...

Barbara Wolvovitz, attorney who recently received 2009 Susan B. Anthony Award from the Women's Bar Association of Allegheny County.

U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter at the former McAdoo Associates site in 2006. Locals involved with the investigation into the cause of a rare blood disease offered a variety of comments regarding news that U.S. Senator ...