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updated: Tue Jul 08, 2008 10:02 am

Lehighton News

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19 hrs ago | Pocono Record

Area police blotter

On July 3 at 10:50 p.m., Carl S. Lehman, 43, of Jim Thorpe, was driving his 1996 Chevrolet 3500 west on Old Route 115 near Mount Eaton Road in Ross Township, going too fast on the wet road around a curve.

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Related Topix: Jim Thorpe, PA, Tobyhanna, PA

Sun Jul 06, 2008

Pocono Record

Area crime news

Burglars broke into McGinley's Trail Side Lodge on Route 115 in Blakeslee in the early morning hours of June 26.

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Related Topix: Blakeslee, PA, Albrightsville, PA, Effort, PA, Brodheadsville, PA

Fri Jul 04, 2008

WNEP-TV Moosic

Hazardous Spill Closes Route 895

Route 895 is closed near Lehighton after a truck crash. The tractor-trailer was carrying a load of residue left over from the steel-making process.

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Wed Jul 02, 2008

The Morning Call

In Your Town Lehighton area

PUBLIC BOG WALKS through the Tannersville Cranberry Bog will be held 10 a.m. today and next Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Tannersville, PA, Monroe County, PA, Nescopeck, PA, Drums, PA

The Morning Call

Country Junction employee douses fire

About 25 employees and 15 shoppers were evacuated from the Country Junction store in Bushkill Township today when an antique peanut roaster malfunctioned, causing a fire in a vent pipe, officials said.

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Tue Jul 01, 2008

The Morning Call

DUI charges dropped in fatal Carbon County crash

When state police charged a Jim Thorpe man with causing a fatal crash last year because he was driving under the influence of marijuana, he faced a three- to six-year prison term.

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Related Topix: Drug Testing, Carbon County, PA, Jim Thorpe, PA

The Morning Call

Four injured in head-on crash in Lehighton

A violent crash involving a car and a sport utility vehicle in Carbon County last night sent four people to area hospitals.

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Mon Jun 30, 2008

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Lehighton cancer specialists fined

A state agency has fined a Lehighton-based cancer treatment practice $8,000 for violations in the use of radiation devices at two of its offices last year.

Carbon County Oncology Management Inc. failed to get a required annual calibration test on a medical particle accelerator at its Simon Kramer Institute for Therapeutic Oncology in Blythe Township, Schuylkill County, the state Department of Environmental Protection said Wednesday.

The group also used a new medical accelerator at the Joint Center for Therapeutic Oncology in Lehighton without filing the proper paperwork, the DEP said.

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Related Topix: Schuylkill County, PA, Medicine, Cancer, Health, Carbon County, PA, Oncology

WFMZ

Several Seriously Hurt in Crash in Carbon County

At least four people were hurt after a head-on collision in Carbon County. It happened late last night on Route 443 in Lehighton.

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Sat Jun 28, 2008

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Electric hikes already here

Electricity customers worried about skyrocketing rates when price caps expire starting in 2010 for PPL Corp. and other utilities only have to look at a handful of neighboring communities to see what it's like to deal with hefty increases.

For people who live in Lehighton, Quakertown, Perkasie, Kutztown, Lansdale, Weatherly, Hatfield, Schuylkill Haven and St. Clair -- all of which have municipal-run electric utilities from which they use profits to fund borough operations -- hefty increases are already a fact of life.

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Related Topix: Schuylkill Haven, PA, Hatfield, PA, Schuylkill County, PA, Carbon County, PA, Lansdale, PA

Thu Jun 26, 2008

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Two area hospitals chosen as area's best values

Another new hospital rating system -- this one pooling existing data on quality, cost and reputation shows St. Luke's Hospital and Gnaden Huetten Memorial as the area's ''best values.''

The Fountain Hill and Lehighton hospitals were the only local hospitals among seven that scored high enough to make the list, according to a spokeswoman for Data Advantage, a health information company based in Kentucky that released its first ''Hospital Value Index'' Tuesday.

Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest in Salisbury Township, LVH-Muhlenberg in Bethlehem, Easton Hospital in Wilson, Palmerton Hospital and Sacred Heart Hospital in Allentown did not score in the top 25 percentile to rate as a best value, said Carlie Crenshaw, who works for a Nashville public relations company. And no local hospital made the top 100 best value in the country list, she said.

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Related Topix: Fountain Hill, PA, Easton, PA, Wilson, PA, Medicine, Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry

Tue Jun 24, 2008

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Lehighton Pool Pals put up $115,000 to fix leak

After two years of cleaning cars, organizing dances and selling hot dogs, a group of volunteers dedicated to raising money to repair Lehighton's leaky pool is calling it quits.

The Lehighton Area Pool Pals went out on a high note Monday night at the Borough Council meeting, with treasurer Karen Alboucq and secretary Lyle Christopher turning over a $115,464.60 check for repairs that have started this year.

''We are going out of business as the Pool Pals,'' said the group's chairman, Mark Hoffman.

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Sun Jun 22, 2008

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Communities are eager for casino grant money

Can Lehighton, Bangor, Palmerton and dozens of other communities benefit from state grants generated by a tax on Mount Airy Casino Resort?

You bet.

Many of the 25 local and county officials who were at a meeting Thursday in Lehighton to learn about the grant program left planning to apply for myriad projects as diverse as a new police station in Lehighton to improved emergency services in Kidder Township.

''Everybody is looking for money these days,'' Palmerton Councilman Brad Doll said.

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Related Topix: Monroe County, PA, Palmerton, PA, Allentown Metro, Lake Harmony, PA

Fri Jun 20, 2008

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State office to help communities get cut of casino cash

With $12 million expected this year from a tax on Mount Airy Resort Casino slot revenues to fund economic development, community improvement and public interest projects in Monroe and surrounding counties, the state is betting there will be municipalities that want a piece of the action.

So the state Department of Community and Economic Development will help them lay all their cards on the table.

The state has scheduled meetings at 10 a.m. Thursday in Lehighton Borough Annex, 3 p.m. Thursday at University of Scranton's Brennan Hall and 10 a.m. Friday at East Stroudsburg University's Beers Lecture Hall to guide municipal and county governments through the process.

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Related Topix: Scranton, PA, Scranton Metro, East Stroudsburg, PA, Carbon County, PA, Luzerne County, PA

Wed Jun 18, 2008

The Morning Call

Panther Valley climbs aboard vo-tech project

Panther Valley School Board has joined its fellow vo-tech school districts in approving a bond issue for a $20.5 million building project at Carbon Career and Technical Institute.

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Related Topix: Education Etc., Jim Thorpe, PA, Weatherly, PA

Mon Jun 16, 2008

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Official proposes yard sale rules

Allentown City Councilman Peter Schweyer recently heard a story about a city woman who was visited by zoning officers for holding more than one yard sale within a year.

It turns out the city doesn't have any specific ordinance regarding yard sales and there's plenty of confusion because of it.

Schweyer, vowing to fix the situation, recently introduce a law that would allow residents to hold four outdoor sales per year.

The proposed ordinance would also restrict ''garage sales,'' ''lawn sales'' and 10 other classifications of outdoor sellings from lasting more than three days. Those who hold yard sales would also not be able to post signs until a day before the event.

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Related Topix: Allentown, PA, Allentown Metro, Bethlehem, PA, Coaldale, PA

Sat Jun 14, 2008

The Morning Call

Carbon Co. - Road work

PennDOT reports lane restrictions on the following roads in Carbon County: Spruce Hollow Road in Lower Towamensing and Towamensing townships, between Route 209 and Hahns Dairy Road, June 11-13 from 7 a.m. to ...

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Related Topix: Carbon County, PA, Jim Thorpe, PA

Thu Jun 12, 2008

MergeDigital

Summit Hill man admits biting officer

A Summit Hill man admitted Thursday in Carbon County Court that he spit on two police officers, bit one of them on the finger and kicked out a rear window of a police car in February.

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Related Topix: Summit Hill, PA, Carbon County, PA

Tue Jun 10, 2008

The Morning Call

Allentown Diocese Church Closings Mission A New More Inside

Photos and historical background of the churches that will be closed. A12, A13 When the Catholic Diocese of Allentown announced the impending closure of nearly 50 churches, it raised a practical question with ...

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Related Topix: Roman Catholic Church, Religion, Easton, PA, Allentown, PA, Allentown Metro, Nazareth, PA

Sun Jun 08, 2008

Pocono Record

Area police blotter

Mark "Tony" Gadsden, 22, of New York, was sentenced June 5 in federal court to five years in prison after pleading guilty to his role in cocaine and crack cocaine trafficking in Carbon and Lehigh counties in ...

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