Buck Hill Falls News

It's an appropriate issue for July 4 weekend: It's not quite taxation without representation, but might qualify as "taxation without quite as much to show for it as some other folks." The popularity of private communities for residential living, a trend that started decades ago and continues today, has checkerboarded the Poconos with entities that ...

Barrett Township is celebrating its birthday the way most people would like to - with a week-long event.

Author Joseph O'Neill will appear at the Tennis Tea Restaurant at Buck Hill Falls for a dinner and discussion at 7 p.m. Saturday.

Marvin Brodt had a hole-in-one April 26 on the 164-yard No. 9 at Buck Hill Falls's Red Course using 5-wood. Witnesses were Leslie Weimer, Keith Weimer and Ken Weimer.

Buck Hill Luxury Homes LP Anderko Land Management to David C. and Virginia W. Toomey, Unit 813, "Revised Site Plan, Buck Hill Falls, Phase I, Section 4," $610,000 Coolbaugh Township Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

An investigation is under way into a fire that destroyed a large house in an exclusive residential development in Monroe County earlier this week.

State police fire marshals are investigating a 10:30 p.m. Wednesday fire that consumed a large home on Griscom Road in the Buck Hill Falls community in Barrett Township.

A state police fire marshal is still investigating how a fire started at a historic home in Monroe County Wednesday night.

Definition: Above others in age, rank or length of service. "Fun," noun, f-u-n. Definition: The annual spelling bee for seniors held Friday by the Monroe County Area Agency on Aging at the Eastern Monroe Public Library.

Pine siskin, a northern species that occasionally flies into the United States in search of conifer seeds.

Police say Sean Walters, 39, of Mountainhome, can't leave his ex-girlfriend alone.

Sean Walters, 39, of Mountainhome, allegedly returned to his girlfriend's home Early Tuesday morning and stole cash, credit cards, jewelry, a musical jewelry box and pictures and slashed the leather furniture ...

November is commonly viewed as one of those dull, in-between months of the year.

Two area business operators questioned the Monroe County commissioners Wednesday about the size of a proposed 3.5 mill tax hike - the first since 2002 - during a severe economic downturn.