Palmerton News

Keystone Oaks' dynamic backfield rushing duo of Matt McCann and Jordan Maddox are the first 1,000-yard rushing duo of the 2009 football season.

Profession: Practice manager, pediatric dentistry What I'm reading: ''Resilience'' by Elizabeth Edwards How is it? Not what I was expecting, but I am enjoying it; she is a very strong, admirable woman.

With 60 percent of the vote, Republican Steven Serfass defeated Democrat Carole Wildoner Walbert Tuesday to become Carbon County judge, according to unofficial returns.

Italian food is a favorite cuisine of many, especially when it comes to pizza. One reader is hoping others can help out with a good recipe for pizza dough.

It's Halloween weekend, and that means it's time to get out and get ghoulish. But not all Halloween events are scary in nature.

Anthony ''Tony'' Locascio ended up in a remote area of Schuylkill County, left to die wearing only boxer shorts after being beaten and bloodied with metal baseball bats, because he was a snitch, a state police trooper testified Friday.

The federal government says those on Social Security will not be receiving cost of living increases next year and that has some people crying foul.

Church history book: Jane of Palmerton is looking for a copy of ''Sacred Heart Church: History 1908-2008'' published last year.

The closing day of the Rock The Fall festival at Blue Mountain Ski Area pretty good performers in its headliners Sunday, but the best singer was the show's opener.

High winds swept through the Lehigh Valley on Wednesday, jostling vehicles and pedestrians, and shaking down enough trees to impede traffic and knock out power in isolated areas.

Easton's Brett Bartek chips onto the green on the 7th hole at Riverview Country Club earlier this season.

As cable companies try to balance the demand for high-definition channels and the desires of customers who prefer cheaper analog service, two area companies have decided to straddle the fence -- for as long as they can.

Jackie Galley In the Palmerton Area School District, students and parents are upset by a new dress-code ban on body piercings and unusually colored hair.

Country music singer Randy Houser, who is scheduled to headline the closing night of the Rock The Fall festival at Blue Mountain Ski Area near Palmerton in a little over two weeks, canceled an appearance Tuesday because he was sick with a "really bad" throat infection, a spokeswoman said.

Imagine, for a strictly hypothetical moment, that teachers and other authority figures in the Palmerton Area School District showed up for school wearing T- shirts that exercised their First Amendment free expression rights.

A suspended Palmerton School District official Thursday waived his preliminary hearing on charges of molesting a boy for about five years, and the case will now proceed to Carbon County Court.

LOWER TOWAMENSING Palmerton man badly injured as pickup truck hits tree A Palmerton man suffered severe injuries Wednesday night when his pickup truck crashed into a tree along Fireline Road in Lower Towamensing Township, police said.

Vertical Earth at Blue Mountain in Palmerton, Pa., opened Sept. 12 with a $500 Jump Jam before bringing in the "Big Show" of the Gravity Series East downhill racers from Sept.

Dozens of students showed up to class Tuesday in the Palmerton Area School District last week wearing white shirts emblazoned with "Property of PHS" and their student identification numbers.

When students decided to use their perceived First Amendment rights to protest Palmerton Area School District's dress code last week, they trekked into a 40-year-old legal landscape that has been more tested and traversed than the zinc-polluted mountain that looms above their Carbon County community.