Nesquehoning News

A month after Lansford council's efforts to block the sale of the former Panther Valley Middle School in the borough appeared dead, the board is hoping to make the sale more difficult by stripping the ...

Some pint-sized students in Carbon County are in school this week as they prepare to start classes this fall.

An ordinance that Nesquehoning passed last year limiting where convicted sex offenders could live is being enforced for the first time, after a New York man recently moved into a prohibited area, officials ...

Some in Carbon County are breathing a sigh of relief, after a convicted sex offender was forced to move out of the community.

Brightly colored hydraulic pumps now stand in neat rows where diners once relished entreA©s at linen-draped tables. Lathes and milling machines have replaced stoves and dishwashers, and the sound of metal on metal is now the clang of industry instead of the clink of flatware.

The former Nardini's Restaurant on Route 54 in Nesquehoning, vacant for more than a year, has found new life as the manufacturing plant for Hydra-Tech Pumps, a $4 million-a-year international hydraulic pump business.

PennDOT reports lane restrictions on the following roads in Carbon County: Blakeslee Boulevard in Mahoning Township, between Mill Road and Freddricks Grove Road, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 23-27. Lake Drive in ...

The parking lot of a former Nesquehoning catering and banquet hall would be the site of a storage facility under a plan approved by the Planning Commission.

Brightly colored hydraulic pumps now stand in neat rows where diners once relished entre ©s at linen-draped tables.

Another attempt by Lansford Borough Council to block Panther Valley School District from selling its former Panther Valley Middle School failed last week when four members voted against the move.

The Catholic Diocese of Allentown is closing 47 churches and this morning parishoners at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Nesquehoning are continuing the fight to keep their church open.

By JIM DINO Staff Writer Parishioners at St. Kunegunda's Church in McAdoo and both churches in Tresckow have appealed closings ordered by the Diocese of Allentown.

KEYSTONE BLOOD CENTER will hold the following blood drives: 8-10 a.m. today, Viking Injector, 512 Industrial Road, Nesquehoning, 570-645-3633; 1:30-4:30 p.m. today, Bradley Caldwell Inc., 200 Kiwanis Blvd., ...

Parishioners at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Roman Catholic Church in Nesquehoning are fighting the Allentown Diocese's decision to close the church next month -- the first of potentially several appeals to be ...

By TOM RAGAN Staff Writer A newly renovated truck-runoff road on Route 93 at the bottom of the Broad Mountain, Nesquehoning worked as designed Wednesday afternoon when a tractor-trailer lost its brakes.

Nesquehoning volunteer firefighters rushed to the home of former borough Fire Commissioner Mike Kravelk after a smoke alarm sounded there in November.

PennDOT reports lane restrictions on the following roads in Carbon County: Forest Inn Road in Towamensing and Lower Towamensing townships, between Interchange Road and Palmerton, May 27-30 from 8 a.m. to 2 ...

By JILL WHALEN Staff Writer At 90 years old, a World War II veteran still remembers being seen off to combat by a Nesquehoning priest.

PALMERTON AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT will not hold classes Monday in observance of Memorial Day.

After researching the feasibility of Tamaqua operating its own trash hauling business, Borough Council has decided to keep contracting it out.

Summit Hill has given its approval to forming a Panther Valley council of governments. via The Morning Call