Parryville News

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

Two Pennsylvania Turnpike bridge builders were injured Thursday afternoon when a steel structure they were preparing collapsed near the Lehigh River at Parryville.

Burglars got into a home near Lehighton sometime Sunday night in Carbon County. Police said someone got into the home on Center Street in Parryville through a basement door after prying it open.

AMY ZUBEK/TIMES NEWS Speaker of the House Keith McCall, right, reads the citation that was issued to the Franklin Township Police Department during the award's ceremony on Friday morning.

Gail Maholick/TIMES NEWS Jane and Leroy Fritzinger of 707 North Harrity Road, Lehighton, lost their home during a massive fire on Thursday night.

The fire that destroyed the house at 707 N. Harrity Road in Parryville on Thursday night has been ruled accidental.

Firefighters returned to Parryville this morning to a house damaged in a two-alarm fire last night.

In the eight years, from the April 1, 2000 Census to the current estimate of July 1, 2008, Pennsylvania's population has remained relatively stable a ' going from 12,281,054 to 12,448,279, an increase of 167,225 people, or about 1 percent.

Emergency workers at work during a rescue on the Lehigh River between Parryville and Bowmanstown in Carbon County on Saturday afternoon after several rafts of the White Water Challengers overturned.

A woman was rescued on the Lehigh River on Saturday afternoon, after becoming separated from her group when three rafts turned over.

Democratic and Republican nominations for offices of mayor, council and supervisor in six municipalities that comprise Lehighton area municipalities were decided on Tuesday when voters participated in Primary Election 2009.

All six municipalities that comprise the Lehighton Area School District have Primary Election contests on Tuesday, May 19.

BOB FORD/TIMES NEWS A tanker from the Bowmanstown Fire Department is parked along Oak Street in the Meadow Crest section of Bowmanstown as heavy smoke from a raging forest fire billows in the background.