Quakake News

It was ten years ago when a town of 7,174 lost several hundred jobs. The end of an era.

Harry J. Barron of South Tamaqua, a West Penn Township resident for 74 years, has announced his candidacy for West Penn Township Supervisor.

Hundreds of fifth-grade students from Tamaqua, West Penn and St. Jerome elementary schools took part in the 21st annual D.A.R.E. Challenge recently in the gym at the Tamaqua Area Elementary School.

A woman was taken to the Lehighton hospital today around 615 a.m. following a two vehicle accident that occurred along an ice-covered Lake Drive near the SR54 intersection in Lake Hauto.

SPECIAL TO THE TIMES NEWS Members and volunteers with the Heckman, Isganitis, MesserSchmidt American Legion Post 973, Quakake, donated to both the Schuylkill Carbon Marine Corps League's Toys For Tots campaign and the Tamaqua Salvation Army Angel Tree toy drive.